[Foundation-l] [Fwd: Re: Do WMF want enwp.org?]

Keegan Peterzell keegan.wiki at gmail.com
Wed May 11 05:22:29 UTC 2011


On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt at gmail.com> wrote:

> With regards to the wi.ki domain, I asked people at the WMF back in 2009
> about whether they were interested in buying it given that the owner at the
> time had a notice on the site saying he was willing to sell. The response
> came back that they were concerned it could be problematic since neither
> the
> Wikimedia community nor the WMF has a monopoly on the word "wiki" and the
> WMF didn't want to overstep their claim to the concept.


I think that is a good reason to leave that alone.

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~Keegan

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