On 19/11/12 02:09, MZMcBride wrote:
Tim Starling wrote:
Providing a traditional URL shortener with traditional features would
be useful, at least for some people, and would eliminate the need to
use third-party URL shorteners internally, which have a commercial
focus and unknown lifetime. If
There are some practical reasons for providing site specific domain
shortening beyond owning a cool domain hack.
Discouraging the use of third party shorteners has real value. The
web getting littered with urls that camouflage their destination, are
tied to loss making commercial entities of
I think the wmf.co and related URLs are our best bet.
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Luke Welling lwell...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
There are some practical reasons for providing site specific domain
shortening beyond owning a cool domain hack.
Discouraging the use of third party shorteners
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Neil Harris n...@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote:
Perhaps ask Ward Cunningham if he'd be willing to donate the wiki.orgdomain
to the WMF cause, and have
links of the form
wiki.org/token ?
It's a cool idea for a shortener, but a bit rude to assume wiki.org should
On Sun, 18 Nov 2012 13:46:56 -0800, Neil Harris n...@tonal.clara.co.uk
wrote:
Perhaps ask Ward Cunningham if he'd be willing to donate the wiki.org
domain to the WMF cause, and have links of the form
wiki.org/token ?
to pages on any or all of the WMF-hosted sites?
wiki.org is just as
On 19/11/12 10:04, Daniel Friesen wrote:
My favorite right now is en.wp.w.mf. Unless you want to spend
$100,000. ;) In which case we could revive the age old wish of a .wiki
tld, grab some short names for wmf wikis, and make .wiki available for
registration of all wiki.
I also like the idea
Tim Starling wrote:
Providing a traditional URL shortener with traditional features would
be useful, at least for some people, and would eliminate the need to
use third-party URL shorteners internally, which have a commercial
focus and unknown lifetime. If there was no integration with MW
On Nov 18, 2012, at 1:43 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Mono monom...@gmail.com wrote:
More than that, they are using Wikipedia's logo stolen from Wikimedia
Commons without attribution and infringing on the WMF's trademark.
I've notified our
Hi.
I know this has come up a few times and it's usually the same discussion,
but there's now an RFC here, for those interested:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/URL_shortener.
Thanks to Ryan K. for starting this. :-)
MZMcBride
Fwiw, wi.ki isn't really available. I looked into it years ago, and
Kiribati charges excessive amounts for their domains (like 10 grand). Dunno
if that's changed.
-Chad
On Nov 17, 2012 3:29 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Hi.
I know this has come up a few times and it's usually the
Chad wrote:
Fwiw, wi.ki isn't really available. I looked into it years ago, and
Kiribati charges excessive amounts for their domains (like 10 grand). Dunno
if that's changed.
I'm not sure I'd say wi.ki is off the table... aside from a domain donation,
the Wikimedia Foundation now has an annual
wi.ki is not available - it's been purchased by a company trying to sell
gTLD domains. A couple months ago wi.ki was still available, but not
anymore (http://www.wi.ki/)
More than that, they are using Wikipedia's logo stolen from Wikimedia
Commons without attribution and infringing on the WMF's
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Mono monom...@gmail.com wrote:
More than that, they are using Wikipedia's logo stolen from Wikimedia
Commons without attribution and infringing on the WMF's trademark.
I've notified our legal team of this infringing use.
Erik
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