Just a reminder, zhwp.org is also a shout url for Chinese Wikipedia which maintance by PhiLiP.
HW On 2011/5/11 (三) 2:02:34 PM
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Keegan Peterzell keegan.wiki@gmail.comwrote:
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.com for 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.