On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:02 AM, Brian J Mingus <brian.min...@colorado.edu>wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Keegan Peterzell <keegan.w...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Brian J Mingus > > <brian.min...@colorado.edu>wrote: > > > > > > It seems that giving w.net/com/org to the WMF would be in line with > his > > > vision of no corporation controlling a letter. > > > > > > > > +1 for the idealism, but I'd like to add the concept is quite silly if > you > > consider the bulk of the internet users and their relevant care to domain > > names. It's pretty slim. Heck, pitchfork.com used pitchforkmedia.comfor > > many, many years without qualms. Users see the URL and bookmark it. > > > > -- > > ~Keegan > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan > > > > I think the advantage is that it would allow us to generalize the concept > behind enwp.org, which is that we want short urls for all languages and > all > projects. I'm thinking along the lines of http://en.wp.w.org . From that > angle I would say that short urls of this type have become rather popular. > You could of course use goo.gl, but then your url is obfuscated, whereas > in > this case it's not. > > -- > Brian Mingus > Graduate student > Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab > University of Colorado at Boulder > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > I'm a fan of enwp.org as a URL shortener :) We can come up with countless possibilities for domain names, but this is one being handed to the Foundation as a well known link (we use it for helpmebot in #wikipedia-en-help on IRC). It's a starter for our flagship project. -- ~Keegan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
