Normally I would weigh in for making wikipedia.is a REDIRECT only and
against your suggestion to move the show from
is.wikipedia.org to
wikipedia.is. After all, there is merit in the current, somewhat
uniform
XYZ.wikipedia.org setup, which e.g. allows switching language
Wikipedias by editing the address line.
However, seeing your unique reasons (if it really is as "bad" as you
say) maybe the best option would be to make wikipedia.is and
is.wikipedia.org mirrors? If you really want to "keep it in the
country", you'd maybe have to host the mother lode in Iceland anyway.
Or would that be too traffic intensive and problematic as far as edit
conflicts?
-- Jens
On 6 Sep 2004, at 16:05, wikitech-l-request(a)wikimedia.org wrote:
Message: 3
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 14:17:12 +0200
From: ?var Arnfj?r? Bjarmason <avarab(a)gmail.com>
Subject: [Wikitech-l] A domain for
is.wikipedia.org, wikipedia.is
Our reasons for wanting a domain are threefold, first none-.is domains
are generally shunned in Iceland for aesthetic reasons, .com, .net and
.org domains are generally associated with something
none-professional, no corporation or respected institute would use
them. Second is the charge for foreign downloads in Iceland is about
$3 per 100MB, this of course is measured by IP addresses and not by
TLD's however the general misconception among the general population
is the opposite, for this reason many do not visit none-.is sites when
they approach their download limit which ranges from 100MB to 4GB for
common ASDL connections (going from 100MB to 4GB cost about $50).
Third the Icelandic wikipedia does not show up in many Icelandic
searches, most notably not by leit.is (a search engine used by
technophobes) and by "$query site:is" on google, though it should be
noted that passing the hl=is option to google will turn up
is.wikipedia.org. This only happens when using the Icelandic google
interface which many do not use (mainly because it's outdated, doesn't
list news, froggle and others).