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 incorporated names, the Chapter is authorized to assume and operate under the titles “Wikimedia England”, “Wikimedia Scotland”, “Wikimedia Wales”, “Wikimedia Northern Ireland”, “Wikimedia Britain”, “Wikimedia Great Britain”, “Wikimedia GB”, “Wikimedia United Kingdom” and “Wikimedia UK” and translations of these titles into other languages, for all operations as a Wikimedia chapter." > 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 when we make the move. 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 is to visitors, though... There are a number of upsides to moving, e.g. in terms of being able to easily reconfigure things and add extensions, and reinforcing our independence from the WMF (I've always been a bit uneasy that they host our main site.) Mike _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
