[Foundation-l] Re: Hosting scans of the 1911 Britannica on Wikimedia

Wed Nov 9 02:56:04 UTC 2005

On 11/9/05, Tim Starling <t.starling at physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:

> The only question in my mind is the domain: should this be under
> eb1911.wikipedia.org? We could make it visually distinct, to avoid confusion
> with Wikipedia itself. Or would eb1911.wikimedia.org be better? Or
> eb1911.wikisource.org?

Whether at Wikipedia or Wikisource, I'd rather it was "1911" rather
than "eb1911". If there are trademark issues with calling it
Encyclopedia Britannica, then calling it EB just seems a sneaky way
around that since it's obvious what the EB stands for. It annoys me
when people use "WP" on sites we'd not approve the use of "Wikipedia"
since it still implies some official connection, especially
considering how often the abbreviation is used to refer to Wikipedia.

Angela.