[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Pennsylvania

[THURNER rupert]

the other things used by pa follow the same rule, like mailing list, irc
channel? thats great to hear, many thanks!

rupert.

On 7/13/07, Casey Brown <cbrown1023 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> I'm sorry, but you guys are a little behind.  We, in association with
> ChapComm, have already created a website at <http://pa.us.wikimedia.org>.
> At a later date, we will be creating <http://us.wikimedia.org> as a portal
> for Wikimedia chapters in the United States and information that applies
> to
> all of them.
>
> We do not have a real reason for not using <http://pa.wikimedia.us>,
> except
> the fact that we believed pa.us.wikimedia.org looked better.  However, at
> a
> later date, we may set up a redirect from Wikimedia.us to us.wikimedia.org
> .
>
> Thank you for your comments on this matter and I hope you will continue to
> show support towards this new Chapter.
>
> Casey Brown
> Cbrown1023
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Dedalus
> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 3:27 PM
> To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Pennsylvania
>
> Ray Saintonge wrote:
>
> >Using the .us domain did cross my mind.  Can you explain why
> >pa.wikimedia.us would be preferable to wikimedia.pa.us?  My impression
> >has been that leading codes would be linguistic, and trailing codes
> >would be national and sub-national.
>
> Please keep in mind RFC 1480: non-governmental state-wide agencies
> like Wikimedia
> chapters would have to list something like wikimedia.gen.<state>.us.
>
> There are pros and cons to that system. Please note that there are
> currently no charges for domain registration. For example to register
> wikimedia.gen.tx.us visit:
> http://www.ns.gen.tx.us/cgi-bin/template.pl
>
> However there might be a very simple reason why
> <two-letter-state-code>.wikimedia.us is to be preferred. WMF already
> registered wikimedia.us (and can therefore easily create
> pa.wikimedia.us).
>
> Dedalus
>
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