[Foundation-l] Re: Progress on wikimedia.com?

[Daniel Mayer]

--- Erik Moeller <erik_moeller at gmx.de> wrote:
> Having a short domain name is very important. Many people don't use 
> bookmarks, and they will visit a site only if they feel like typing the 
> name. wikimediafoundation.org is 23 characters, longer than every single 
> name on the Alexa top 100 websites list. Conveying the message that we 
> are a foundation is best left to the website content, in my opinion, 
> rather than the domain name. I don't see emphasis as a sufficient reason 
> to keep a long name, otherwise we might as well call it 
> wikimedianonprofit.org or wikimediafreeknowledge.org to emphasize other 
> aspects of importance.

Every single page on every project that the foundation runs should eventually
have a link to one of the fundrasing pages. There also should be a direct link
to the foundation home page from each of those ~2 million pages (under the "A
Wikimedia Project" button). Thus the number of characters in the actual URL of
the foundation wiki is not too important. 

Having a portal to act as a central start-off point to all the different
projects is far more important. Having that at Wikimedia.org makes perfect
sense to me. Granted the current one lacks content and inter-project search
capability, but that can and should be changed. 

-- mav


		
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