[Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices andsystems

[Tim Landscheidt]

"Happy-melon" <happy-melon at live.com> wrote:

> We need to think a little bit outside the box, here; this domain should
> really be available, and make sense to use, for *all* WMF sites.
> http://www.wm.org is only occupied by a websquatter at the moment, AFAICT; I
> think a schema like http://wm.org/<wiki_code>/<article_title> or
> http://wm.org/<wiki_code>/?oldid=<oldid> would be cleanest.  For enwiki it
> would be http://wm.org/enwiki/Foo; the worst-case scenario is AFAIK
> http://wm.org/mediawikiwiki/Foo; still only 28 characters plus the title.
> Use one of the qqx reserved codes for stuff like copyright, and you have a
> complete service.
> [...]

To think outside the box would be to apply for a URN scheme
and have popular browsers implement it (like "wp:" in Kon-
queror for example). It cannot get cleaner than that, and we
would not have to worry about operations issues either :-).

Tim