Brion Vibber wrote:
We would certainly prefer it if he'd like to transfer ownership of the domain to the Wikimedia Foundation.
The domain owner is not willing to transfer ownership to WMF, he prefers to wait until a local Wikimedia chapter is founded. However, as promised, the DNS records have been changed as to point to one of my servers, so we can build a portal or whatever the community decides (for better or worse, the Wikipedia in Romanian is the best representative Wikipedia community in Romania, although we do have the occasional Moldovan and Polish contributor). Currently the domain is a redirect to ro.wikipedia.org, à la http://www.wikipedia.cz/ or http://www.wikipedia.hu/, but we're discussing the issue.
In that context, I have a couple of questions for the list:
1. Can we use the Wikipedia trademark in the absence of a local chapter? We'd obviously abide by the same principles as Wikipedia (no ads, Wikipedia-centric content, collaborative management by the ro.wiki community), but I don't want to risk the odd legal trouble over such a minor issue.
2. Is there any framework available for collaborative development that we can use? We could probably open a Sourceforge project, but I'd rather keep things in house if possible (and I have no intention of setting up repositories and interfaces for this purpose on my own).
Thank you, Gutza