Hoi,
The BBC article I referred to explained the benefits; the usability is much
improved. It is nasty to have to switch to another keyboard whenever a URL
is to be typed. When you consider that half the world population does not
use the Latin script for their language, the benefit should be obvious. The
expense consists of one domain per script.. So let us be generous and have
20 scripts to support, it means that we need active domains only for those
domains that we have an active project in. While this is a recurring cost,
it is not a significant one and, it is one that improves our usability
demonstrably.
Currently it is possible to have the domain partly in other scripts. The
benefits are debatable because you still need to end these with the .net
.org .com whatever suffix in the Latin script. With the new script support,
the full URL can be fully in Unicode supported scripts.
Thanks,
GerardM
I see. So you'd like to see double the number of
site registrations; in
this case adding
维基百科.o?r?g? to
zh.wikipedia.org
That strikes me as a significant expense for uncertain result; but it would
make a good strategy proposal -- especially if you can find users from ar,
zh, ru, and indic-language communities to weigh in on how often they visit
non-latin-script url's today. [presumably someone who really prefers using
non-latin scripts would be visiting sites today whose full url, other than
the TLD code, was in a non-latin script.]
SJ
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 2:27 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Hoi,
In your question the key thing to appreciate is that it is the .org part
that does not need to be in the Latin script any more. What I propose is
that we support the whole "wikipedia.org" part and "wiktionary.org"
part
once in each script.
What the word is for Wikipedia is not my call. This is either obvious or
a
choice is to be made. We will gain a lot in
usability when our whole
experience can be wholly in the one script that is most comfortable to
the
user. It is relevant to note that the language
codes we use in front of "
wikipedia.org" need to be transcribed.
Thanks,
GerardM
2009/10/31 Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com>
> Gerard,
>
> I don't think we currently register wikipedia.cn or
> 维基百科.cn <http://xn--3js032e7ich4g.cn> <http://xn--3js032e7ich4g.cn> <
http://xn--3js032e7ich4g.cn
><http://
> %e7%bb%b4%e5%9f%ba%e7%99%be%e7%a7%91.org/>or
>
维基百科.org <http://xn--3js032e7ich4g.org> <http://xn--3js032e7ich4g.org>
<http://xn--3js032e7ich4g.org>
<http://
> %e7%bb%b4%e5%9f%ba%e7%99%be%e7%a7%91.org/>. When the new
> ICANN policies are in place, as I understand it, there will be four new
> domains possible: wikipedia.c?n?, wikipedia.o?r?g?,
>
维基百科.c?n?<http://%e7%bb%b4%e5%9f%ba%e7%99%be%e7%a7%91.org/>and
> 维基百科.o?r?g? <http://%e7%bb%b4%e5%9f%ba%e7%99%be%e7%a7%91.org/>...
which
of
> these are you suggesting using?
>
> SJ
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Gerard Meijssen
> <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
>
> > Hoi,
> > According to an article on the BBC website, it is now possible to
have
a
> > URL
> > that is completely in the script used for a language. This means that
a
> > Russian URL would be completely in the
Cyrillic script and it would
not
> > need
> > to end with .org.
> >
> > I would like the Wikimedia Foundation to get the necessary domains to
> > support the scripts that we have language versions in. The BBC
article
explains that people do find the need to move from one
script to the
other
as problematic and cumbersome. Obviously, we can
have the necessary
mapping
> from our current Latin based URLs to the ones in other scripts. This
will
> > be
> > an important feature because we want people to easily move between
our
> > projects.
> > Thanks,
> > GerardM
> >
> >
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8333209.stm
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