[Foundation-l] Font support for our domains

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
In your question the key thing to appreciate is that it is the .org part
that does not need to be in the Latin script any more.  What I propose is
that we support the whole "wikipedia.org" part and "wiktionary.org" part
once in each script.

What the word is for Wikipedia is not my call. This is either obvious or a
choice is to be made.  We will gain a lot in usability when our whole
experience can be wholly in the one script that is most comfortable to the
user. It is relevant to note that the language codes we use in front of "
wikipedia.org" need to be transcribed.
Thanks,
       GerardM

2009/10/31 Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com>

> Gerard,
>
> I don't think we currently register wikipedia.cn or
> 维基百科.cn <http://xn--3js032e7ich4g.cn><http://
> %e7%bb%b4%e5%9f%ba%e7%99%be%e7%a7%91.org/>or
> 维基百科.org <http://xn--3js032e7ich4g.org> <http://
> %e7%bb%b4%e5%9f%ba%e7%99%be%e7%a7%91.org/>.  When the new
> ICANN policies are in place, as I understand it, there will be four new
> domains possible: wikipedia.c?n?, wikipedia.o?r?g?,
> 维基百科.c?n?<http://%e7%bb%b4%e5%9f%ba%e7%99%be%e7%a7%91.org/>and
> 维基百科.o?r?g? <http://%e7%bb%b4%e5%9f%ba%e7%99%be%e7%a7%91.org/>... which of
> these are you suggesting using?
>
> SJ
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Gerard Meijssen
> <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > Hoi,
> > 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.
> > Thanks,
> >      GerardM
> >
> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8333209.stm
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