Re: Domain-grabbing: wikipedia.it also taken. Take care of your country...

Hi,

On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 00:03:53 +0000, Ramanan Selvaratnam rama-at-ukfsn.org |Wikipedia| wrote:
> My language Tamil, about 70 million people has no country, no flag ...
> like many many more.
> But there is an ISO code for the lang.
> What is wrong with the current arrangement with virtual hosts?

There is nothing wrong with the current arrangement.  Nobody ever
suggested that country domains replace the current arrangement.  They
are just a supplementary nicety, and are especially useful for the
many-to-many mapping between countries and languages.

For example, one country many languages: 
  (wikipedia.be) Belgium  = Dutch, French, German
  (wikipedia.ch) Switzerland = French, German, Italian
  (wikipedia.in) India    = English, Hindi, Tamil
  (wikipedia.my) Malaysia = Malay, Chinese, Tamil, English

Or one language, many countries:
  French (wikipedia.ca, wikipedia.fr, wikipedia.be, etc)
  Malay  (wikipedia.my, wikipedia.id)
  Tamil  (wikipedia.my, wikipedia.in, wikipedia.lk)

Also, other good thing about country domains are that
 2) people know where to look
 3) it communicates the message "this is *your* wikipedia" 

One good counter-argument for is that www.wikipedia.org fills #2
perfectly and that country domains are redundant.  I propose that they
redirect and that www.wikipedia.org should be smart enough to display
all the languages used in that country.
  
-- 
Eric Kow                     http://www.loria.fr/~kow
PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9         Merci de corriger mon français.

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