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Gutza wrote:
I am an administrator, bureaucrat and checkuser on the
Romanian
Wikipedia. I have contacted the current owner of domain wikipedia.ro
asking him to consider donating the domain to Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
(there is no local chapter in Romania). He's considering the option, but
in the meanwhile he has offered to allow us use of the domain -- in
other words, he asked for the appropriate nameserver IP addresses he
should associate with that domain (obviously, that should lead to the
content currently served at
ro.wikipedia.org). Could that be arranged?
If so, please provide the respective IP addresses so I can pass them on
to him.
In a different train of thoughts, should he agree donating the domain
altogether to WMF, can WMF to take ownership, or is that against any policy?
We would certainly prefer it if he'd like to transfer ownership of the
domain to the Wikimedia Foundation.
Just changing the name servers is a little risky, since it's easy to
lose track of the various domain ownerships, and it might end up not
getting renewed or transferred out from under the current owner -- and
the next owner might not be as friendly.
As with most other country domains, we'd probably set up either a
redirect or a portal page, depending on what seems the most appropriate
for the linguistic situation.
- -- brion vibber (brion @
wikimedia.org)
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