On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:02 AM, Brian J Mingus
<brian.mingus(a)colorado.edu>wrote;wrote:
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Keegan Peterzell
<keegan.wiki(a)gmail.com
wrote:
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Brian J Mingus
<brian.mingus(a)colorado.edu>wrote;wrote:
>
> 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
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User: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
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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.
--
~Keegan