On 9/6/07, Ray Saintonge wrote:
Delphine Ménard wrote:
On 9/5/07, Ray Saintonge wrote:
However, I will ask Brion to confirm the feasibility of assigning
wikimedia.ca to a wiki hosted by the Foundation, if that makes sense
and you are ready to assign the dns to that, and until the chapter can
actually host their own wiki, which I STRONGLY recommend ;-)
The problem with this is that Canada requires that holders of .ca
domains be Canadians. The only apparent exception for WMF would depend
on having the exact name registered in a trademark in Canada. See
http://www.cira.ca/official-doc/18_1.RPPG_00006EN.pdf
I don't think I was clear enough. I didn't mean to give the domain
to
the Foundation. I believe you own the domain. If you're ready to point
the dns to the Wikimedia DNS, then the Foundation can host the wiki
for the time being, ie. when someone types wikimedia.ca, it will end
up on a wiki hosted on Wikimedia Foundation servers. In the longer
run, Wikimedia Canada should find their own hosting provider. That's
all.
I don't particularly oppose this. My delay in answering this was
intentional. I had hoped that other Canadians would have some comments
about this, but no luck. My only problem with using wikimedia.ca at
this stage is that it would be one more site that nobody would know
anything about, and would probably get even less traffic than the meta
pages or this mailing list.
Ec