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

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/7/22 Marco Chiesa <chiesa.marco at gmail.com>:
> 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.

At the moment the site is hosted by the WMF so is at a WMF domain, our
domain redirects to that. At some point we will probably want to set
up our own server(s) and then the confusion will be eliminated. It
might make sense to put a note at the top of the main page linking to
the Ukrainian Wikipedia.