https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64557
--- Comment #11 from jeremyb <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Kevin Rutherford from comment #8) > because it is shorter and > doesn't involve a hyphen, which would make it harder to tell people in > person. I personally believe there is a high value in allowing potential users to determine (or at least guess) what the domain represents without having to actually visit it. Even better if it somehow follows an international standard. (e.g. country code or language code) (also useful for e.g. people reading all.dblist...) People buying domain names or brainstorming brands/slogans often run into problems where the name domain spelling allows for ambiguous tokenization by humans (in case there are multiple plausible word boundaries). I suppose we could have a redirect from neus or usne (or from ne.us.wikimedia.org or neweng.us.wikimedia.org) but we should not have a canonical name be a 4 char subdomain without punctuation. IMO, NE should be reserved for Nebraska. How about canonical us-neweng.wikimedia.org and aliases could be neweng.us.wikimedia.org / usneweng.wikimedia.org ? (also, keep in mind that there's a decent chance that if you decide to change the name in the future, your wiki renaming request may outlive the life of the wiki itself. or could just be WONTFIX'd :) so pick a good one now) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
