At 16:55 +0000 24/1/09, Thomas Dalton 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. >> >> 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. > >I agree, it is far from ideal to have our website on a domain we don't >own. Even if we do get control of wikimedia.org.uk, we should probably >try and get wiki.org.uk as well and redirect it (since we are Wiki UK >Ltd.).
Could go for something in ltd.uk (as well)? Gordo -- "Think Feynman"///////// http://pobox.com/~gordo/ gordon.j...@pobox.com/// _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l
