Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia and indiawikipedia.com & wikipedia.in
Hi Sumana - please direct all communications concerning legal matters to the Wikimedia India chapter directly as these matters may not be suitable for discussion on a public mailing list. Thanks, ASB. On Tue, Mar 5, 2013, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > Daniel Zahn of Wikimedia Foundation's Operations group asked me to > please forward this to the Indian Wikimedia community. I hope this > improvement helps people find Indian Wikipedias and helps them learn > about the Wikimedia India chapter. Comments, concerns, and suggestions > are welcome, as Daniel details below. > > Cheers, > Sumana Harihareswara > > > Original Message > Subject: indiawikipedia.com > Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 15:23:44 -0800 > From: Daniel Zahn > To: Sumana Harihareswara > > Hello Wikimedia India, > > fyi, ops/legal at WMF acquired the domain: > > http://indiawikipedia.com > > and redirects it (for now) to: > > http://wikimedia.in/wikipedia.html > > It was a really old ticket on our side to get that domain name and it > went through legal, then we had it for a while but never redirected it > anywhere, and now we just decided to use the target above because that > seemed to make the most sense. > (after all it is indiawikiPedia.com and not indiawikiMedia.com) > > A long term goal i suggested would be to get wikipedia.in as well and > redirect it there. > A little while ago, like end of February, that was still active but > full of advertising, and now it's disappeared. > > If you have any comments/questions/ideas you can open a Bugzilla ticket > or even look at the Apache config directly and suggest changes. Please > mention "RT-1395" for reference. > > The relevant changes are: > > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/52141/1/redirects.conf > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/52152/ > > Best regards, > > Daniel > -- > Daniel Zahn > Operations Engineer > > > ___ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia and indiawikipedia.com & wikipedia.in
Thanks, good to know! Ashwin On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 5:26 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > Daniel Zahn of Wikimedia Foundation's Operations group asked me to > please forward this to the Indian Wikimedia community. I hope this > improvement helps people find Indian Wikipedias and helps them learn > about the Wikimedia India chapter. Comments, concerns, and suggestions > are welcome, as Daniel details below. > > Cheers, > Sumana Harihareswara > > > Original Message > Subject: indiawikipedia.com > Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 15:23:44 -0800 > From: Daniel Zahn > To: Sumana Harihareswara > > Hello Wikimedia India, > > fyi, ops/legal at WMF acquired the domain: > > http://indiawikipedia.com > > and redirects it (for now) to: > > http://wikimedia.in/wikipedia.html > > It was a really old ticket on our side to get that domain name and it > went through legal, then we had it for a while but never redirected it > anywhere, and now we just decided to use the target above because that > seemed to make the most sense. > (after all it is indiawikiPedia.com and not indiawikiMedia.com) > > A long term goal i suggested would be to get wikipedia.in as well and > redirect it there. > A little while ago, like end of February, that was still active but > full of advertising, and now it's disappeared. > > If you have any comments/questions/ideas you can open a Bugzilla ticket > or even look at the Apache config directly and suggest changes. Please > mention "RT-1395" for reference. > > The relevant changes are: > > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/52141/1/redirects.conf > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/52152/ > > Best regards, > > Daniel > -- > Daniel Zahn > Operations Engineer > > > ___ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > -- Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
