Hello all,
As far as I'm concerned, a redirect would be enough. However, the interwiki hack would be quite nice if it's a possibility.
I think Ævar is making things slightly complicated by requesting this though. Our original discussion (mine and SvavarL's that is) was regarding the option of having wikipedia.is for reasons of "advertising"... we have been preparing a poster campaign for schools and other places of education, to increase awareness of Wikipedia's existence in Iceland... our active editor group is small and we tend to get overly entertained by minor details, hence it would be a good thing to size it up a bit. (Ævar told me that someone had inquired about the original XCF of the advertizement.. but it is indeed a Word Document, which I keep forgetting to upload when I'm at work, sorry. But I am now offtopic..)
Getting back on track, the situation is quite straightforward: We would like the wikipedia.is domain.
The questions are therefore three:
a) Does the Wikimedia foundation make any claims to- or requests regarding domains referencing Wikipedia, i.e. registration rights, subdomains, MX transfers, etc?
b) Does MediaWiki currently have the technical capabilities to reference is.wikipedia.org interwiki's as wikipedia.is instead, without any major hassle for the developers or inconveniances to anything else, and will somebody be willing to enable such referencing if we were to aquire the domain?
c) Is there someone who would be willing to configure the Apache servers to accept wikipedia.is and/or www.wikipedia.is as a Virtual Host referencing the same internal Wiki directory as is.wikipedia.org currently does?
I hope that clears things up a bit...
kv, Smari. [[User:Spm]] on en. and is.
p.s., a question to the developers, completely unrelated to the above: Why is there a differentiation made between the terms "article" and "category"? Would it not be clever to allow any article to reference another article as it's category? This has probably been debated at your end before.. but I wasn't there. :-)