"Happy-melon" happy-melon@live.com wrote:
We need to think a little bit outside the box, here; this domain should really be available, and make sense to use, for *all* WMF sites. http://www.wm.org is only occupied by a websquatter at the moment, AFAICT; I think a schema like http://wm.org/<wiki_code>/<article_title> or http://wm.org/<wiki_code>/?oldid=<oldid> would be cleanest. For enwiki it would be http://wm.org/enwiki/Foo; the worst-case scenario is AFAIK http://wm.org/mediawikiwiki/Foo; still only 28 characters plus the title. Use one of the qqx reserved codes for stuff like copyright, and you have a complete service. [...]
To think outside the box would be to apply for a URN scheme and have popular browsers implement it (like "wp:" in Kon- queror for example). It cannot get cleaner than that, and we would not have to worry about operations issues either :-).
Tim