[Foundation-l] Font support for our domains

Sat Oct 31 01:52:43 UTC 2009

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi,
> The news is that you do not need the .org part anymore in the Latin script.
> You mention that you do not know if it will be popular ... this is the kind
> of thing that will slowly grow and then mushroom. Where you indicate that
> domain names are squatted, there are procedures to gain those names. For a
> project like Wikipedia it is obvious that we can gain specific domains.. The
> thing is what word in Cyrillic or other script will be the one that we will
> use.
> Thanks,
>       GerardM
>
> 2009/10/30 Nikola Smolenski <smolensk at eunet.rs>
>
>> Gerard Meijssen wrote:
>> > According to an article on the BBC website, it is now possible to have a
>> URL
>> > that is completely in the script used for a language. This means that a
>> > Russian URL would be completely in the Cyrillic script and it would not
>> need
>> > to end with .org.
>> >
>> > I would like the Wikimedia Foundation to get the necessary domains to
>> > support the scripts that we have language versions in.  The BBC article
>> > explains that people do find the need to move from one script to the
>> other
>> > as problematic and cumbersome. Obviously, we can have the necessary
>> mapping
>> > from our current Latin based URLs to the ones in other scripts. This will
>> be
>> > an important feature because we want people to easily move between our
>> > projects.
>>
>> I'm not sure how popular such domains will become. However, I believe at
>> least a few key ones should be registered, in order to prevent squatters
>> and protect the trademarks. It appears that 维基百科.com<http://xn--3js032e7ich4g.com>is already
>> registered, though it doesn't point anywhere. 维基百科.org<http://xn--3js032e7ich4g.org>is still free...
>>
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This got talked about on the Rachel Maddow show on MSNBC this evening,
her guest was one of the editors from BoingBoing. Thought it was cool that
it's getting some high-level media mention :)

-Chad