On Jan 24, 12:45 pm, Michael Peel <em...@mikepeel.net> wrote: > On 24 Jan 2009, at 12:37, Gordon Joly wrote: > > > At 11:27 +0000 21/1/09, Michael Peel wrote: > >> Chris, > > >> I assume you meanhttp://www.wikimedia.org.uk/? > > >> We're currently waiting for the WMF to set up a wiki for WMUK, which > >> we hope will be done imminently; the website will then be brought up > >> to date fairly rapidly. We also don't currently have control of the > >> domain names; we've requested that they be transferred from the > >> current owner, but haven't heard anything back from him yet. I guess > >> it depends on how long the WMF takes to set up the wiki as to whether > >> it's worth replacing the content on the current website yet, although > >> a note that the pages are out of date might be useful regardless... > > I've now heard back from James (he was away), and he's raised a good > point about whether the WMF or WMUK should have control of these > domains and the other UK domains for the WMF's trademarks. I've been > in contact with Mike Godwin about this; discussions are ongoing.
Wikimedia UK is an independent organisation from the Wikimedia Foundation. We (WMUK) need a website of our own that we control, and ideally, where we own the domain name. If the WMF or James F want to keep control of wikimedia.org.uk that's very disappointing and frankly very unhelpful - particularly considering they're doing nothing with it. But if it is true, WMUK should not host its information on this domain and should seek to register a different one - maybe http://www.wiki.org.uk/? Personally, I think setting up a website whose content we control but where the domain name is registered to James or the Foundation is a particularly bad idea. We would have full liability for the content but control would be a constant struggle. Obscuring the ownership would not be particularly helpful. Either it's ours or theirs. If they want to keep, so be it. Andrew _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l
