Various wikimedia.* domains seem to have been bought up by unknown third parties. Do we care?
wikimedia.net, wikimedia.biz, wikimedia.us seem to be the standard domain reseller scum.
wikimedia.com brings up a generic 'under construction' page (in German); the owner is a Daniela Rohrer at paracelsuspraxis.ch.
wikimedia.de is actually some sort of wiki (in German): "wikimedia ist eine nichtkommerzielle unpolitische vereinigung zur foerderung des InternetWieEsEinmalGedachtWar in form von wikis." I'm not quite sure what's up with this; it's a TWiki and I can't figure out how to navigate to anything usefully. (Well, and it's in German.)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Brion Vibber wrote:
wikimedia.de is actually some sort of wiki (in German): "wikimedia ist eine nichtkommerzielle unpolitische vereinigung zur foerderung des InternetWieEsEinmalGedachtWar in form von wikis."
This means something like "wikimedia is a noncommercial apolitical organisation to support the InternetAsItWasMeantToBe in form of wikis".
They describe their goal pretty much interactive and P2p-like as "to get away from a consumer network coming to a publishing [empowered] society" . Wikimedia.de is supposed to become a "meta-wiki for discussion about wikis". It is very alternative, and at least one user seems to be affiliated with the German CCC (Chaos Computer Club).
It contains almost no content and has nothing to do with MediaWiki, WikiMedia, or Wikipedia. I think, they chose the domain name "wikimedia" because they're interested in the role of the media for the society and think (as we do ;) that wiki has something to do with that - having in mind something like the Radiotheorie by Bert Brecht, or the Medienbaukasten by Hans Magnus Enzensberger (just an assumption). And they seem to be interested in weed ;)
According to DENIC, the domain was registered on 10.06.2003 by Dominik Kuehne, Stralauer Allee 21, D-10245 Berlin, GERMANY. Other people involved are Marc Teichgräber ("RaDaR", radar at c-base.org) and Martin Steldinger (TriBble, tribble-wikimedia at hanfplantage.de). If you want to ask them something, try these mail addresses, or I can give them a call, if they're in the phonebook.
I'm not quite sure what's up with this; it's a TWiki and I can't figure out how to navigate to anything usefully. (Well, and it's in German.)
Seems to be a playground at the moment, it's no domain grabbing. Well, I think, they chose the wrong wiki engine ;)
Greetings, -asb
Hi all, It may be very intersting to be able to use {{msg:XXX}} from a [MediaWiki:XXX] page even if this variable is not in the $wgAllMessagesEn array. On the French Wikipedia we created some standard messages for pages juged as "stubs", "npov", "work in progress", etc. It may fantastic to be able to use for example {{msg:ébauche}} (ébauche=stub) defined in a [MediaWiki:ébauche] page to display the stub related preface.
Aoineko
Guillaume Blanchard wrote:
Hi all, It may be very intersting to be able to use {{msg:XXX}} from a [MediaWiki:XXX] page even if this variable is not in the $wgAllMessagesEn array. On the French Wikipedia we created some standard messages for pages juged as "stubs", "npov", "work in progress", etc. It may fantastic to be able to use for example {{msg:ébauche}} (ébauche=stub) defined in a [MediaWiki:ébauche] page to display the stub related preface.
Aoineko
You can already do that, see the primary documentation:
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_namespace
And the organisation page for this feature on en:
http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Custom_messages
However unfortunately you can't use accented characters in message titles at the current time. This may well change in the near future, but for now, stick with A-Z, a-z, 0-9, hyphen (-) and underscore (_).
-- Tim Starling
Guillaume Blanchard wrote:
Hi all, It may be very intersting to be able to use {{msg:XXX}} from a [MediaWiki:XXX] page even if this variable is not in the
$wgAllMessagesEn
array. On the French Wikipedia we created some standard messages for pages
juged as
"stubs", "npov", "work in progress", etc. It may fantastic to be able to
use
for example {{msg:ébauche}} (ébauche=stub) defined in a
[MediaWiki:ébauche]
page to display the stub related preface.
Aoineko
You can already do that, see the primary documentation:
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_namespace
And the organisation page for this feature on en:
http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Custom_messages
However unfortunately you can't use accented characters in message titles at the current time. This may well change in the near future, but for now, stick with A-Z, a-z, 0-9, hyphen (-) and underscore (_).
-- Tim Starling
Yes, I just see it... that's great ! Sure, be able to use accented characters may be nice, but as it mainly for maintenance purpose, it's not a priority. Thanks all.
Aoineko
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