I've suggested for years that we ask for w.org. It is a reserved domain name that we could ask IANA to grant to us. The X.Org Foundation has x.org (grandfathered in), and I believe we have a compelling argument for wanting the domain. Plus, it likely wouldn't cost us anything, unlike all the other options. We should at least ask. The worst that can happen is they say no.
Ryan Kaldari
On 3/23/12 9:15 AM, Andrea Stagi wrote:
Hi all,
working on Wikipedia mobile app I realized that urls we want to share are too long sometimes and this is a problem when your maximum number of characters is limited. I think that Wikipedia should provide an own shortner url service, like goo.gl, bit.ly etc.. There's just an unofficial service for English Wikipedia: enwp.org... Petan on IRC proposed something like this:
wm.org/language/Articlefor example
wm.org/en/PragueOk, wm.org is not free actually, but we can think about something similar... What do you think?
Regards,
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