To clarify matters: they are considering the best approach to take,
and personally I'm happy to give them a short while to think about it
before wikimedia.org.uk/co.uk is transferred anywhere (it's not as if
the domains are currently squatted). They are not refusing or
objecting, just thinking things through.
Mike
On 25 Jan 2009, at 10:43, Michael Bimmler wrote:
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 5:48 PM, AndrewRT
<raturvey(a)yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
Wikimedia UK is an independent organisation from
the Wikimedia
Foundation. We (WMUK) need a website of our own that we control, and
ideally, where we own the domain name.
Absolutely. Speaking not as a ChapCom-rep, but as a chapter president,
if the WMF's approach is really as described in this thread, this
leaves me completely baffled. All the other chapters, if I'm not very
mistaken, own the wikimedia.xx domain in their country (unless, of
course, "stolen" by a third party). If Wikimedia DE owns and controls
"wikimedia.de", Wikimedia France "wikimedia.fr" and Wikimedia CH
"wikimedia.ch" (and I never heard any WMF objection to this state of
affairs), then I see no reason why Wikimedia UK should not own
wikimedia.org.uk (and wikimedia.co.uk if it wants to etc.)
If their is continuous refusal on the WMF's part to give the chapter
that domain, I would say this needs be raised at the Chapters Meeting
in April.
Regards,
Michael
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