Someone needs to bring the Wikipedia:FAQ up to date. I quote:
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Why is
wikipedia.org redirected to
wikipedia.com and not the other way
around?
It was a matter of honesty. Bomis, the company owned by Wikipedia
patron Jimbo Wales, hoped to make Wikipedia profitable, or at least
cover the costs of operation. At one point, Jimbo was planning on
placing unobtrustive advertisements on Wikipedia, but that plan has
since been abandoned. There is now serious talk about forming a
non-profit organization for the Wikipedia project.
Also, it may simply be for convienence. If one domain was the first one
purchased, and the second domain was added later, it makes sense to
create the second domain as a pointer, instead of switching the new
domain to be the primary domain. There is no implication, restriction
or enforcement of the .org, .com and .net top level domains.
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-Karl
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