On 17/01/06, Mark Williamson <node.ue(a)gmail.com> wrote: This is what was done with wikimedia.org.uk and .co.uk - though, oddly, not with wikipedia.co.uk and .org.uk, which both redirect to en.wiki. Their choice of the six languages to list is a little odd, though - sco. has about 1300 pages, whereas gv. has under 20! -- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk

On 1/17/06, Angela <beesley(a)gmail.com> wrote: I presume wikimedia.org.uk will become the website of the WMFUK chapter, not just a portal including it, along the lines of www.wikimedia.fr -- Sam

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:

This is taking NPOV to the extreme... 99% of all people living in Sweden except to get to a site in Swedish when they go to a website with the ending .se, probably most Swedish Finns would go to www.wikipedia.se (and surely not sv.wikipedia.org) if they wanted to find Wikipedia in Swedish, not www.wikipedia.fi. But as I have said numerous times, this is another discussion. The question is: "Is it possible to get Wikimedia to pay for the domain name www.wikipedia.se?" /Andreas On 1/18/06, Phil Boswell <phil.boswell(a)gmail.com> wrote:

"Mark Williamson" <node.ue(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:849f98ed0601190006r61ddd914g@mail.gmail.com... [snip] As opposed to http://wikipedia.co.uk which redirects to :en: ... HTH HAND -- Phil [[en:User:Phil Boswell]]

Switzerland, yes; Denmark, no. Yes, Faroese and Greenlandic are "regional languages" of the Kingdom of Denmark, but they are spoken only by tiny percentages of the population. Greenland, Iceland, and the Faroes also have their own domain names -- using YOUR logic, Greenlandic should only be at www.wikipedia.gl, Icelandic at www.wikipedia.is, and Faroese at www.wikipedia.fo And yet, the people tending to the portal cared enough to protect those minorities by including them. Despite the fact that the Greenlandic Wikipedia only has about a dozen articles, and each of them has their own domain name. Sámi doesn't have it's own domain though... And yes, wikipedia.fi should be a portal. But who pays for it? Not the Foundation. I think that if the FOundation pays for your domain, you should have a portal for ALL of the langauges of Sweden. If you pay for it yourself though, it's up to you. Mark On 19/01/06, Andreas Vilén <andreas.vilen(a)gmail.com> wrote: -- "Take away their language, destroy their souls." -- Joseph Stalin