To clarify matters: they are considering the best approach to take, and personally I'm happy to give them a short while to think about it before wikimedia.org.uk/co.uk is transferred anywhere (it's not as if the domains are currently squatted). They are not refusing or objecting, just thinking things through.
Mike On 25 Jan 2009, at 10:43, Michael Bimmler wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 5:48 PM, AndrewRT <ratur...@yahoo.co.uk> > wrote: > >> 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. > > Absolutely. Speaking not as a ChapCom-rep, but as a chapter president, > if the WMF's approach is really as described in this thread, this > leaves me completely baffled. All the other chapters, if I'm not very > mistaken, own the wikimedia.xx domain in their country (unless, of > course, "stolen" by a third party). If Wikimedia DE owns and controls > "wikimedia.de", Wikimedia France "wikimedia.fr" and Wikimedia CH > "wikimedia.ch" (and I never heard any WMF objection to this state of > affairs), then I see no reason why Wikimedia UK should not own > wikimedia.org.uk (and wikimedia.co.uk if it wants to etc.) > > If their is continuous refusal on the WMF's part to give the chapter > that domain, I would say this needs be raised at the Chapters Meeting > in April. > > Regards, > Michael > > -- > Michael Bimmler > mbimm...@gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l
