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

[Marco Chiesa]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Teofilo<teofilowiki a 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_?
>

I've noticed that http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ redirects to
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page If I remember correctly the
first domain was the address of the "old" Wikimedia UK, and that the
second was created by the "new" chapter. I'd say the .org.uk address
is definitely much more recognizable as belonging to a UK
organisation, while the uk.wikimedia.org is more confusing;
furthermore, being a foundation-owned domain (at least I guess), there
may be the issue of the separation of WMF and WM-UK.
As regards the confusion between language and country codes, I
remember that the Breton wikipedia (br-wp) used to receive a lot of
materials in Portuguese from people from Brazil (citation needed),
whose country code is .br. This is not really up to us, just wanted to
point it out.

Cruccone