On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:02 AM, Brian J Mingus brian.mingus@colorado.eduwrote:
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Keegan Peterzell <keegan.wiki@gmail.com
wrote:
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Brian J Mingus brian.mingus@colorado.eduwrote:
It seems that giving w.net/com/org to the WMF would be in line with
his
vision of no corporation controlling a letter.
+1 for the idealism, but I'd like to add the concept is quite silly if
you
consider the bulk of the internet users and their relevant care to domain names. It's pretty slim. Heck, pitchfork.com used pitchforkmedia.comfor many, many years without qualms. Users see the URL and bookmark it.
-- ~Keegan
I think the advantage is that it would allow us to generalize the concept behind enwp.org, which is that we want short urls for all languages and all projects. I'm thinking along the lines of http://en.wp.w.org . From that angle I would say that short urls of this type have become rather popular. You could of course use goo.gl, but then your url is obfuscated, whereas in this case it's not.
-- Brian Mingus Graduate student Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab University of Colorado at Boulder _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
I'm a fan of enwp.org as a URL shortener :) We can come up with countless possibilities for domain names, but this is one being handed to the Foundation as a well known link (we use it for helpmebot in #wikipedia-en-help on IRC). It's a starter for our flagship project.