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(a)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(a)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!
Andreas
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