Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1279279-20130204144755/@comment-10688548-20130210020357

I disagree. First of all, if no language is selected, it's English, isn't it? What else could it be? The language code defines things in the software, it's more than just a suggestion of what language the content should be written in.

English wikis are the primary goal of Wikia. Very rarely are foreign wikis larger than their English counterparts, though it does happen (w:c:es.pokemon is larger than w:c:pokemon last I checked). It makes sense that the English wiki should not require a language prefix- though through a Special:Contact request, any wiki can have itself moved to any URL it wants, prefix or no prefix.