You could also come up with a petition, having all Wikipedia users sign it, and present it to domain owners. Anyone else have any ideas?

A thousand? I can guarantee a whole lot more than 1000. How about I build a prototype site to handle the petition where people can register their Wikipedia username as someone supporting the petition? It wouldn't be too hard, and if we can find hosting with reasonable database space, we can build it, post about it on village pump / community portal / whatever else. I bet we can get 10000 in a matter of weeks. On 9/12/06, Michael Billington <michael.billington(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On 9/12/06, Akash Mehta <draicone(a)gmail.com> wrote: Here, I'm feeling lucky opens as expected http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page. On 9/12/06, Akash Mehta <draicone(a)gmail.com> wrote: trouble? -- Liviu _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l

I have the hosting capacities for a petition, and MySQL databases, but I'd probably need a little help setting up the system. However, I though Wikimedia servers could easily handle that. Andrew Archer On 12/09/06, Brad Patrick <bradp.wmf(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On 12/09/06, Andrew Archer <archer.andy(a)gmail.com> wrote: Sounds reasonable. Is it possible to search domain space, regexp or iteratively? Whatever happens - people shouldn't act on dodgy domains without Brad's say so. Vigilanteing would be a bad idea.

How about starting a list on Meta, then putting a call out on "Goings-on"? Andrew Archer On 12/09/06, Lorenzarius <lorenzarius(a)gmail.com> wrote: _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l

Looking good! Now what would we do about domain holders who have got a private registration rather than published their details on the WHOIS? Andrew Archer On 12/09/06, Lorenzarius <lorenzarius(a)gmail.com> wrote: _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l

On 9/12/06, Lorenzarius <lorenzarius(a)gmail.com> wrote: more. Just for the record. Mentionning those domains in a "readable" format gives them traffic. Listing people as "squatters" just like that is a dangerous game, because people who just have the domains, are potential friends and forgot to connect them might not like being called a *squatter* (and I know what I am talking about, we almost lost one of our important domain extension because the guy who bought it was called a "squatter" constantly on our lists - he was not). In the end, I personally do not believe that making all this noise is the solution, because it only comforts real squatters in their conviction that squatting "wikipe-somethingorother.stuff" domains is a great idea. Not something we are particularly looking for. And to finish, as Ray points out, there is no way the Foundation will ever have the means to take every single domain/extension that sounds or looks or even is one of their trademarks. Listing those somewhere is also very tempting for squatters... Delphine -- ~notafish _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l

I very much appreciate the discussion about problem domains. It would benefit WMF greatly if we had the following: -List of problem domains (is there a page?) -Petition engine to capture usernames against use of said domains That will give us what we need to pursue action as laid out by Akash with a minimum of WMF resources having to dedicate time to it. Thanks. -Brad >On 9/12/06, Akash Mehta <draicone(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > >>>A thousand? I can guarantee a whole lot more than 1000. How about I >>>build a prototype site to handle the petition where people can >>>register their Wikipedia username as someone supporting the petition? >>>It wouldn't be too hard, and if we can find hosting with reasonable >>>database space, we can build it, post about it on village pump / >>>community portal / whatever else. I bet we can get 10000 in a matter >>>of weeks. >>> >>>On 9/12/06, Michael Billington <michael.billington(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>>>>You could also come up with a petition, having all Wikipedia users >>>>>sign it, and present it to domain owners. Anyone else have any ideas? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>Having all wikipedia users would be near-impossible, but I think it would be >>>> >>>> >>>>possible to drum up a thousand or so. >>>> >>>>Just about every time I've typed "wikipedia" wrong, i get a parked >>>>domain.... so it is an annoying problem, but is it worth the trouble? >>>> >>>>

"Ray Saintonge" wrote: Even worse, i'd warn you that this can attract more people to cybersquatting our domains, as we will be publicising this subject. _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l

Domain name complaints are really nasty and costly, especially if they fight it. Petitions are free. Andrew Archer On 12/09/06, David Mestel <david.mestel(a)gmail.com> wrote: _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l

I very much appreciate the discussion about problem domains. It would benefit WMF greatly if we had the following: -List of problem domains (is there a page?) -Petition engine to capture usernames against use of said domains That will give us what we need to pursue action as laid out by Akash with a minimum of WMF resources having to dedicate time to it.

On 9/12/06, Akash Mehta <draicone(a)gmail.com> wrote: Here, I'm feeling lucky opens as expected http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page. On 9/12/06, Akash Mehta <draicone(a)gmail.com> wrote: -- Liviu _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l