"Happy-melon" <happy-melon(a)live.com> wrote:
We need to think a little bit outside the box, here;
this domain should
really be available, and make sense to use, for *all* WMF sites.
http://www.wm.org is only occupied by a websquatter at the moment, AFAICT; I
think a schema like
http://wm.org/<wiki_code>/<article_title> or
http://wm.org/<wiki_code>/?oldid=<oldid> would be cleanest. For enwiki it
would be
http://wm.org/enwiki/Foo; the worst-case scenario is AFAIK
http://wm.org/mediawikiwiki/Foo; still only 28 characters plus the title.
Use one of the qqx reserved codes for stuff like copyright, and you have a
complete service.
[...]
To think outside the box would be to apply for a URN scheme
and have popular browsers implement it (like "wp:" in Kon-
queror for example). It cannot get cleaner than that, and we
would not have to worry about operations issues either :-).
Tim