Yes please, since it must be someone from wmf to ask, do that! On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Ryan Kaldari <[email protected]> wrote: > I've suggested for years that we ask for w.org. It is a reserved domain name > that we could ask IANA to grant to us. The X.Org Foundation has x.org > (grandfathered in), and I believe we have a compelling argument for wanting > the domain. Plus, it likely wouldn't cost us anything, unlike all the other > options. We should at least ask. The worst that can happen is they say no. > > Ryan Kaldari > > > On 3/23/12 9:15 AM, Andrea Stagi wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> working on Wikipedia mobile app I realized that urls we want to share >> are too long sometimes and this is a problem when your maximum number >> of characters is limited. I think that Wikipedia should provide an own >> shortner url service, like goo.gl, bit.ly etc.. There's just an >> unofficial service for English Wikipedia: enwp.org... Petan on IRC >> proposed something like this: >> >> wm.org/language/Article >> >> for example >> >> wm.org/en/Prague >> >> Ok, wm.org is not free actually, but we can think about something >> similar... What do you think? >> >> Regards, >> >> =.4.S.= >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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