Brion wrote:
Various people are under the impression that Jimbo owned it, which is supported by a perusal of the list archives:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/intlwiki-l/2002-June/000465.html
Well that changes everything (I missed that email). I don't agree with his decision but what is done is done. Precedent has been set and now we will have to pony up the money to reactivate wikipedia.de and also start to buy up other country code wikipedia domains as well (prioritizing based on use/size of the particular language versions).
Sigh. IMO that would be money better spent on hardware.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
Daniel Mayer wrote:
Brion wrote:
Various people are under the impression that Jimbo owned it, which is supported by a perusal of the list archives: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/intlwiki-l/2002-June/000465.html
Well that changes everything (I missed that email). I don't agree with his decision but what is done is done. Precedent has been set and now we will have to pony up the money to reactivate wikipedia.de and also start to buy up other country code wikipedia domains as well (prioritizing based on use/size of the particular language versions).
Sigh. IMO that would be money better spent on hardware.
This sounds very much like dumping money into a bottomless pit.
Ec
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:37:23AM -0800, Ray Saintonge wrote:
Daniel Mayer wrote:
Brion wrote:
Various people are under the impression that Jimbo owned it, which is supported by a perusal of the list archives: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/intlwiki-l/2002-June/000465.html
Well that changes everything (I missed that email). I don't agree with his decision but what is done is done. Precedent has been set and now we will have to pony up the money to reactivate wikipedia.de and also start to buy up other country code wikipedia domains as well (prioritizing based on use/size of the particular language versions).
Sigh. IMO that would be money better spent on hardware.
This sounds very much like dumping money into a bottomless pit.
Not necessarily. I registered wikipedia.hu, other wikipedioholics can do their own country. I think most of the countries can help in this. One reg per country isn't that scary, if the country have at least 3-4 editors, or even if has only one, dedicated. ;->
grin
Daniel Mayer schrieb:
Brion wrote:
Various people are under the impression that Jimbo owned it, which is supported by a perusal of the list archives:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/intlwiki-l/2002-June/000465.html
Well that changes everything (I missed that email).
Wow, Mav, you've got a great memory if you can remember that you missed it! I often forget what was discussed a few months ago, even if it was my own mail. So the question persists why the registration wasn't renewed. If it was the providers fault it might be easier to get it back.
I don't agree with his decision but what is done is done. Precedent has been set and now we will have to pony up the money to reactivate wikipedia.de and also start to buy up other country code wikipedia domains as well (prioritizing based on use/size of the particular language versions).
Sigh. IMO that would be money better spent on hardware.
I don't think so. Most people are irritated by domain names like de.wikipedia.org because there's no www. (btw could we let www.de.wikipedia.org redirect to de.wikipedia.org, please?) The casual German surfer enters www. company name .de and would be very irritated to see porn advertisements or something like that instead of what he or she expected.
The idea to let Wikipedians own those domains sounds interesting, but I predict a lot of trouble sooner or later if one of them leaves the project in anger and uses it for something else.
Kurt
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