On 14 Sep 2011, at 22:49, Chris Keating wrote:
I don't see what
gb.wikimedia.org has to do with
anything, to be honest. We are very definitely not Wikimedia Great Britain.
Actually… we could be. ;-) See:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter_Agreement#Name
"Irrespective of their locally incorporated names, the Chapter is authorized to
assume and operate under the titles “Wikimedia England”, “Wikimedia Scotland”, “Wikimedia
Wales”, “Wikimedia Northern Ireland”, “Wikimedia Britain”, “Wikimedia Great Britain”,
“Wikimedia GB”, “Wikimedia United Kingdom” and “Wikimedia UK” and translations of these
titles into other languages, for all operations as a Wikimedia chapter."
Ideally we would make greater use of wikimedia.org.uk
but we have promoted
uk.wikimedia.org well enough that we should probably deflect
uk.wikimedia.org to wikimedia.org.uk when we make the move.
The downside of moving to wikimedia.org.uk is that we use access to the Single User Login
system (we'd have the site on our own server, and I don't believe it's
possible to use SUL from outside the WMF's server farm). I'm never sure how useful
SUL is to visitors, though... There are a number of upsides to moving, e.g. in terms of
being able to easily reconfigure things and add extensions, and reinforcing our
independence from the WMF (I've always been a bit uneasy that they host our main
site.)
Mike