[Foundation-l] Font support for our domains

[Nikola Smolenski]

Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> According to an article on the BBC website, it is now possible to have a URL
> that is completely in the script used for a language. This means that a
> Russian URL would be completely in the Cyrillic script and it would not need
> to end with .org.
> 
> I would like the Wikimedia Foundation to get the necessary domains to
> support the scripts that we have language versions in.  The BBC article
> explains that people do find the need to move from one script to the other
> as problematic and cumbersome. Obviously, we can have the necessary mapping
> from our current Latin based URLs to the ones in other scripts. This will be
> an important feature because we want people to easily move between our
> projects.

I'm not sure how popular such domains will become. However, I believe at 
least a few key ones should be registered, in order to prevent squatters 
and protect the trademarks. It appears that 维基百科.com is already 
registered, though it doesn't point anywhere. 维基百科.org is still free...