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

[Mark Williamson]

Cruccone, I can confirm what you've said about Brazilian Portuguese,
although I don't know that I'd characterise it as "a lot".

Back in older times before there was much Breton content there, the
domain was "squatted" by people who would have liked to have a
separate WP for Brazilian Portuguese (instead of using pt-wp for all
varieties) but I think there were perhaps a maximum of about 50
articles in Portuguese.

A similar situation occurred with Swiss German material at ch-wp
(intended for the Chamorro language)

Mark

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Marco Chiesa<chiesa.marco at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:42 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_?
>>
>
> 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
>
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