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

[Pavlo Shevelo]

> ... At some point we will probably want to set
> up our own server(s) and then the confusion will be eliminated.

I don't get it why elimination depends on hosting.

Anyhow is it possible to have some explicit estimation about when "at
some point" could happen?

> It
> might make sense to put a note at the top of the main page linking to
> the Ukrainian Wikipedia.

I do believe that it's both quite possible and useful to put such note
at the top of Wikimedia UK main page

let me ask one sorta side question:
Now, when Wikimedia UK wiki is hosted on WMF resources you have a
luxury of SUL support. Do you have any idea whether it will be still
possible when you will move to your own server(s)?

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Thomas Dalton<thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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