[Wikipedia-l] Registering www.wikipedia.se for sv.wikipedia.org

[Andreas Vilén]

In that case you could add the romani and jiddish wikis and remove the
sv. wiki since Swedish is not an official language of Sweden but those
are... The point is, of course, that the majority of the Swedish
inhabitants speak Swedish, and when they go to an .se address they
assume to find content in Swedish. I guess most Swedish finns would go
to www.wikipedia.fi (which links directly to fiwiki, when Swedish has
shared official status with Finnish in Finland) if they searched for
content in Finnish.

All top domains I search for are redirects to their country's primary
language, I don't see why www.wikipedia.se shouldn't. In fact, since
wikipedia.fi is, that would be pure discrimination. Especially since
Swedish is far more widespread in Finland than Finnish is in Sweden.

But this wasn't really the point of the discussion. The point is: is
is possible to finance the purchase of the domain name?

/Andreas
On 1/17/06, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't agree with this move. I think that Wikipedia.se should be a
> portal with links to the Swedish, Finnish, and Sami Wikipedias because
> they are all languages of Sweden.
>
> Mark
>
> On 17/01/06, Andreas Vilén <andreas.vilen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi, I've started a discussion at svwiki about registering the address
> > www.wikipedia.se (.se is the primary domain of Sweden), but it's
> > currently owned by someone, and it will probably cost money to buy it.
> > I have not contacted the person who owns it yet, but I'm checking if
> > there's any way this could be financed by Wikimedia? I also see that
> > for example www.wikipedia.de, www.wikipedia.no and www.wikipedia.pl
> > already exists.
> >
> > I think registering the .se address would increase traffic to the
> > Swedish Wikipedia, since many today probably believe there is only an
> > English version of it, and I don't know, but I suspect that traffic to
> > svwiki is relatively low, at least we have pretty few editors.
> >
> > Is there any possibility this could be done?
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > Andreas
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