[Foundation-l] Britain or Ukraine? What UK stands for in Wikimedia jargon

Nikola Smolenski smolensk at eunet.yu
Wed Jul 22 10:36:49 UTC 2009


Pavlo Shevelo wrote:
> I appreciate a lot that you rose up this issue of confusion (I was
> planning to do that myself a bit later).
> 
> I'm from Ukrainian WP (recently - from WMF chapter for Ukraine as
> well) and I've met many times those confusions/misunderstandings
> starting from
> http://uk.wikipedia.org
> vs.
> http://uk.wikimedia.org
> 
> I'm sure that this issue deserves some portion of attention & thorough
> brainstorming ;)

I suggest a hatnote on the main page of the site: "This is the website 
of Wikimedia United Kingdom. For other uses, see uk.wikimedia.org 
(disambiguation)."

> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Teofilo<teofilowiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello everybody;
>>
>> This is to say that I have written a piece on this topic at :
>>
>> http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page#uk.wikimedia.org_is_Wikimedia_Ukraine,_isn't_it_?



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