In that case you could add the romani and jiddish wikis and remove the sv. wiki since Swedish is not an official language of Sweden but those are... The point is, of course, that the majority of the Swedish inhabitants speak Swedish, and when they go to an .se address they assume to find content in Swedish. I guess most Swedish finns would go to www.wikipedia.fi (which links directly to fiwiki, when Swedish has shared official status with Finnish in Finland) if they searched for content in Finnish.
All top domains I search for are redirects to their country's primary language, I don't see why www.wikipedia.se shouldn't. In fact, since wikipedia.fi is, that would be pure discrimination. Especially since Swedish is far more widespread in Finland than Finnish is in Sweden.
But this wasn't really the point of the discussion. The point is: is is possible to finance the purchase of the domain name?
/Andreas On 1/17/06, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
I don't agree with this move. I think that Wikipedia.se should be a portal with links to the Swedish, Finnish, and Sami Wikipedias because they are all languages of Sweden.
Mark
On 17/01/06, Andreas Vilén andreas.vilen@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, I've started a discussion at svwiki about registering the address www.wikipedia.se (.se is the primary domain of Sweden), but it's currently owned by someone, and it will probably cost money to buy it. I have not contacted the person who owns it yet, but I'm checking if there's any way this could be financed by Wikimedia? I also see that for example www.wikipedia.de, www.wikipedia.no and www.wikipedia.pl already exists.
I think registering the .se address would increase traffic to the Swedish Wikipedia, since many today probably believe there is only an English version of it, and I don't know, but I suspect that traffic to svwiki is relatively low, at least we have pretty few editors.
Is there any possibility this could be done?
Thank you!
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