At 2002-08-15 13:24 -0700, Jimmy Wales wrote:
I'm 100% in favor of a switch.
Me too.
(But keep the .com URL also...)
Jaap van Ganswijk
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Jaap van Ganswijk wrote:
At 2002-08-15 13:24 -0700, Jimmy Wales wrote:
I'm 100% in favor of a switch.
Me too.
(But keep the .com URL also...)
Done. Note that if you've got it set to save your password, you'll have to relogin manually the first time you come back, since your login cookie from www.wikipedia.com doesn't transfer automatically to www.wikipedia.org.
(Note that the other-language wikis are still on *.wikipedia.com; I recommend transferring their URLs to .org along with the software. Which, I am reminded, we should start doing real soon now. I'll finish up tweaking those translation files...)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Brion VIBBER wrote:
Done. Note that if you've got it set to save your password, you'll have to relogin manually the first time you come back, since your login cookie from www.wikipedia.com doesn't transfer automatically to www.wikipedia.org.
I'm glad to hear that that's all the problem; I was beginning to worry that someone had somehow blocked me :-)
Someone needs to bring the Wikipedia:FAQ up to date. I quote:
----- Why is wikipedia.org redirected to wikipedia.com and not the other way around?
It was a matter of honesty. Bomis, the company owned by Wikipedia patron Jimbo Wales, hoped to make Wikipedia profitable, or at least cover the costs of operation. At one point, Jimbo was planning on placing unobtrustive advertisements on Wikipedia, but that plan has since been abandoned. There is now serious talk about forming a non-profit organization for the Wikipedia project.
Also, it may simply be for convienence. If one domain was the first one purchased, and the second domain was added later, it makes sense to create the second domain as a pointer, instead of switching the new domain to be the primary domain. There is no implication, restriction or enforcement of the .org, .com and .net top level domains. -----
-Karl
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