[Foundation-l] wikipedia.it

[Michael Bimmler]

On 12/14/06, Walter Vermeir <walter at wikipedia.be> wrote:
> Michael Bimmler <mbimmler at ...> writes:
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> > I just heard (and saw), that when going to wikipedia.it, there is now
> > a grey banner at the head, stating "hosted by yepa and a link to
> > http://wikipedia.it/disclaimer.html". I wonder a bit, whether this has
> > been discussed with italian wikipedia community and whether WMF is all
> > right with this (after all this is probably the way through which most
> > italians access itwiki, rather than via it.wikipedia.org)
> >
> > Michael
>
> Considering that the domain "wikipedia.it" is not the owned by the Wikimedia
> Foundation it is already fantastic it points to the Italian Wikipedia and with
> only that relative discrete banner on the top.
>
> I believe that domain used to point to a totally irrelevant website in the
> past. Good commercial move from the owner of that domain.
>
Oh, I didn't know that. If this is so, yes, then it would be a major
step forward (I thought we had had a banner-free redirect before, but
this seems to be wrong)
Michael
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