Brion Vibber wrote:
Lars Aronsson wrote:
Congratulations to the media attention! However,
that article
refers to
http://wikipedia.fr/ and the website at this URL opens a
frameset which includes
fr.wikipedia.org. This has the
unfortunate effect that the web browser's address field says
http://wikipedia.fr/ even when I go to other articles, making it
harder to find a bookmarkable URL for pages. It would be easy
enough for
fr.wikipedia.org to contain some JavaScript that
escapes the enclosing frameset,
We do have such JavaScript, and it seems to work fine there in breaking
out so
fr.wikipedia.org reaches the top-level. (Tested Safari 2.0.1)
but it would be better to change
wikipedia.fr into a redirect instead of this evil frameset.
Do we own or control it?
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)
Not the Foundation.
A french a**h*** bought it last fall when we first started to be
featured in the press. We know who he is. We had mail exchanges with him
already to try to get it back.
For now, he redirects to us, with a bad title and some frame issues
editors frequently complain about, but AT LEAST he redirects to us
rather than making cash with a mirror or anything else. This could be
worse...(see
http://wikipedia.ru/)
We now have valid trademarks. So the Foundation could normally get the
domain back by going legal. I think we'll do if he starts being really a
problem. For now, stand by...
Ant
In case someone feels the need to say "YOU SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT IT
BEFORE"... we agree. But in France, only french legal organisations can
buy domains in .fr
A year ago, Wikimedia France did not existed yet. And the Foundation
could not legally purchase it. We crossed our fingers for no one to
steal it. And it was stolen about 2-3 weeks before the association
founding meeting.
Ant