[Foundation-l] Font support for our domains

[Samuel Klein]

I see.  So you'd like to see double the number of site registrations; in
this case adding
  维基百科.o?r?g?   to  zh.wikipedia.org

That strikes me as a significant expense for uncertain result; but it would
make a good strategy proposal -- especially if you can find users from ar,
zh, ru, and indic-language communities to weigh in on how often they visit
non-latin-script url's today.  [presumably someone who really prefers using
non-latin scripts would be visiting sites today whose full url, other than
the TLD code, was in a non-latin script.]

SJ


On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 2:27 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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://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://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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