[Foundation-l] "wikipedia" Domain acquisition

Lodewijk lodewijk at effeietsanders.org
Wed Sep 8 07:29:44 UTC 2010


Hi Naoko,

Thanks for clarifying. That indeed helps a bit more than just the original
text.
I guess a good summary would be "the domain is in safe community hands, and
if the Foundation would like that to be different, they can ask so"?

Best,

Lodewijk

2010/9/8 Aphaia <aphaia at gmail.com>

> I usually give no reply to trolls, so it's just for your information
> as other subscribers on good faith.
>
> It's too bad English to understand what it means, so I just give you
> details instead.
>
> I don't know when wikipedia.jp was first acquired exactly but the
> first acquisition might be in 2003, when WMF had no staff nor active
> board members. The domain has been held by two jawiki admin/b'crats on
> good faith respectively. On the second acquisition some board members
> were informed, since there was no paid staff in the WMF office yet (it
> was a way long before WMF has such).
>
> So
>
> > The "wikipedia.jp" domain acquisition was requested from User:Aphaia
> > by the Wikimedia Foundation staff
>
> the above is a blatant lie I have no good reason to discuss further.
> Due to his disruption I personally advice the moderators of this list
> and EnWP arb to ban this user who has edited only Jimmy's talk to
> troll jawiki and its good users.
> Cheers,
>
>
> 2010/9/8 kigen2700nen at gmail.com <kigen2700nen at gmail.com>:
> > The "wikipedia.jp" domain acquisition was requested from User:Aphaia
> > by the Wikimedia Foundation staff. The individual User:Tietew was
> > owned. On earth, who requested it?
> >
> > 山吹色の御菓子
> >
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