[Wikipedia-l] Registering www.wikipedia.se for sv.wikipedia.org

Tue Jan 17 22:50:17 UTC 2006

I don't agree with this move. I think that Wikipedia.se should be a
portal with links to the Swedish, Finnish, and Sami Wikipedias because
they are all languages of Sweden.

Mark

On 17/01/06, Andreas Vilén <andreas.vilen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I've started a discussion at svwiki about registering the address
> www.wikipedia.se (.se is the primary domain of Sweden), but it's
> currently owned by someone, and it will probably cost money to buy it.
> I have not contacted the person who owns it yet, but I'm checking if
> there's any way this could be financed by Wikimedia? I also see that
> for example www.wikipedia.de, www.wikipedia.no and www.wikipedia.pl
> already exists.
>
> I think registering the .se address would increase traffic to the
> Swedish Wikipedia, since many today probably believe there is only an
> English version of it, and I don't know, but I suspect that traffic to
> svwiki is relatively low, at least we have pretty few editors.
>
> Is there any possibility this could be done?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Andreas
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