On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 16:39:24 +0200, Thomas Luft tluft@web.de wrote:
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
The offer was for DNS hosting, i have no idea if he is willing to host a squid server.
Hi Ævar,
if I understand it correctly you suggest setting up www.wikipedia.is and send all queries there to is.wikipedia.de.
The main reason we want this now is that we indent to send out a press release about the 1 million articles plus our own little paragraph about the Icelandic wikipedia. Having wikipedia.is would go down better with the Icelandic press than some .org domain due to reasons specified in the original message.
What i was asking, or meant to ask is whether it would be possible to change the rendering of [[is:* and [[:is:* from http://is.wikipedia.org to http://www.wikipedia.is both in interwiki links and in in line text.
So the traffic would still cost more because people end up at wikipedia.org but the most of the non-geeks will visit the site because its TLD is .is? Was that what you meant?
Yes, however i meant not to setup a redirect domain but change the official domain from is.wikipedia.org to wikipedia.org, if we just wanted a redirect we could set that up ourselves without any assistance from wikimedia.
Regards
Thomas
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. :-)
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason avarab@gmail.com writes:
Having wikipedia.is would go down better with the Icelandic press than some .org domain due to reasons specified in the original message.
Please, think about this issue again.
Is Icelandic the only language spoken in Iceland? Are people in Iceland only interested in Icelandic?
Please, design htpp://www.wikipedia.is as an Icelandic portal to the international WP project; cf. http://www.wikipedia.nl as an example for such a portal.