Re: [Wikimediauk-l] uk. or gb.

2011-09-16 Thread Gordon Joly
On 15/09/2011 14:57, Katie Chan wrote: Most organisation individuals do not host their website on servers owned by them, but by paying somebody else to host it, or in some case getting it free from the server owner/operator. Memset offer a basic package free for charities.

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] uk. or gb.

2011-09-16 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 16 September 2011 12:27, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote: On 15/09/2011 14:57, Katie Chan wrote: Most organisation  individuals do not host their website on servers owned by them, but by paying somebody else to host it, or in some case getting it free from the server owner/operator.

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] uk. or gb.

2011-09-16 Thread Gordon Joly
On 16/09/2011 17:35, Thomas Dalton wrote: On 16 September 2011 12:27, Gordon Jolygordon.j...@pobox.com wrote: On 15/09/2011 14:57, Katie Chan wrote: Most organisationindividuals do not host their website on servers owned by them, but by paying somebody else to host it, or in some case

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] uk. or gb.

2011-09-15 Thread Michael Peel
On 14 Sep 2011, at 22:49, Chris Keating wrote: I don't see what gb.wikimedia.org has to do with anything, to be honest. We are very definitely not Wikimedia Great Britain. Actually… we could be. ;-) See: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter_Agreement#Name Irrespective of their locally

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] uk. or gb.

2011-09-15 Thread Katie Chan
On 15/09/2011 07:34, Michael Peel wrote: The downside of moving to wikimedia.org.uk is that we use access to the Single User Login system (we'd have the site on our own server, and I don't believe it's possible to use SUL from outside the WMF's server farm). I'm never sure how useful SUL

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] uk. or gb.

2011-09-15 Thread Michael Peel
On 15 Sep 2011, at 14:57, Katie Chan wrote: On 15/09/2011 07:34, Michael Peel wrote: The downside of moving to wikimedia.org.uk is that we use access to the Single User Login system (we'd have the site on our own server, and I don't believe it's possible to use SUL from outside the WMF's

[Wikimediauk-l] uk. or gb.

2011-09-14 Thread Andy Mabbett
The Scotland vs. UK debate has reminded me that we're using uk.wikimedia.org which is, strictly speaking, the Ukrainian sub-domain; and should be using gb.wikimedia.org Is this something we should rectify sooner, rather than later, choosing some pain now over more pain later? -- Andy Mabbett

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] uk. or gb.

2011-09-14 Thread Chris Keating
I don't see what gb.wikimedia.org has to do with anything, to be honest. We are very definitely not Wikimedia Great Britain. Ideally we would make greater use of wikimedia.org.uk but we have promoted uk.wikimedia.org well enough that we should probably deflect uk.wikimedia.org to wikimedia.org.uk

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] uk. or gb.

2011-09-14 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 14 September 2011 22:40, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: The Scotland vs. UK debate has reminded me that we're using uk.wikimedia.org which is, strictly speaking, the Ukrainian sub-domain; and should be using gb.wikimedia.org Is this something we should rectify sooner, rather

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] uk. or gb.

2011-09-14 Thread Richard Symonds
: wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Andy Mabbett Sent: 14 September 2011 22:40 To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] uk. or gb. The Scotland vs. UK debate has reminded me that we're using uk.wikimedia.org which

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] uk. or gb.

2011-09-14 Thread Thomas Dalton
On Sep 15, 2011 12:11 AM, Andrew West andrewcw...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 September 2011 22:50, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: x.wikimedia.org subdomains use country codes (ISO 3166). x.wikipedia.org subdomains use language codes (ISO 639). uk is the language code for

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] uk. or gb.

2011-09-14 Thread Thomas Dalton
On Sep 15, 2011 12:16 AM, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: In answer to Andy's original question: I'd rather sort it out later, after the fundraiser. There is quite enough on our collective plate at present, and perhaps this should wait until after the CEO is in

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] uk. or gb.

2011-09-14 Thread Andrew West
On 15 September 2011 00:37, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: While you may be right that it isn't strictly accurate to call uk an alternative country code for the UK, it is definitely incorrect to call it Ukraine's country code. That is ua. uk is Ukrainian's language code, but