[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Pennsylvania

[Casey Brown]

I'm sorry, but you guys are a little behind.  We, in association with
ChapComm, have already created a website at <http://pa.us.wikimedia.org>.
At a later date, we will be creating <http://us.wikimedia.org> as a portal
for Wikimedia chapters in the United States and information that applies to
all of them.

We do not have a real reason for not using <http://pa.wikimedia.us>, except
the fact that we believed pa.us.wikimedia.org looked better.  However, at a
later date, we may set up a redirect from Wikimedia.us to us.wikimedia.org.

Thank you for your comments on this matter and I hope you will continue to
show support towards this new Chapter.

Casey Brown
Cbrown1023

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Subject: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Pennsylvania

Ray Saintonge wrote:

>Using the .us domain did cross my mind.  Can you explain why
>pa.wikimedia.us would be preferable to wikimedia.pa.us?  My impression
>has been that leading codes would be linguistic, and trailing codes
>would be national and sub-national.

Please keep in mind RFC 1480: non-governmental state-wide agencies
like Wikimedia
chapters would have to list something like wikimedia.gen.<state>.us.

There are pros and cons to that system. Please note that there are
currently no charges for domain registration. For example to register
wikimedia.gen.tx.us visit:
http://www.ns.gen.tx.us/cgi-bin/template.pl

However there might be a very simple reason why
<two-letter-state-code>.wikimedia.us is to be preferred. WMF already
registered wikimedia.us (and can therefore easily create
pa.wikimedia.us).

Dedalus

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