Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-11-22/News and notes

Preparations for Wikipedia's tenth anniversary gearing up

 * For those interested, we'll be having an IRC meeting about the tenth anniversary plans on December first at 16:00 UTC in . If you have any questions in the meantime, feel free to get ahold of me. Steven Walling at work 23:43, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Why not http://10.wikipedia.org? That would avoid the potential (though unlikely) clash with the Tama language Wikipedia, and would also be more internationally recognizable. — SMUconlaw (talk) 09:03, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Steven Walling said "Our first choice was actually the more culturally-neutral 10.wikipedia.org, but MediaWiki is unable to handle having numerals at the beginning of a domain name at this point, so there was no way around it." I was not aware of this issue and I don't see anything about it in Bugzilla. Reach Out to the Truth 14:42, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
 * It's not in Bugzilla because no one filed a bug at the time. Operations staff simply emailed me and said that a numeric domain makes MediaWiki go haywire without describing the problem further. A bug should be filed though, so I'll ask about the specific error it produced. If it could be fixed we could migrate it, or at least set up a proper redirect. Steven Walling at work 16:58, 23 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Could there at least be a redirect from 10.wikipedia.org to ten.wikipedia.org, without involving MediaWiki? – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 17:26, 23 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Minh, I answered on the tenwiki Main Page talk, where you asked first. Cheers, Steven Walling at work 19:16, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

Interesting that there was no problem with ten.wikipedia, but the creation of a "COM:" namespace for Wikimedia Commons has been denied for two years based on potential conflict with a hypothetical Comanche-language Wikipedia... AnonMoos (talk) 15:56, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Not to negate the idea (which personally I think is a good one) but Comanche is at least nominally a living language with a writing system. Bit of a different case than a language that's officially extinct and had no written script. It's ultimately Langcom that has a hold on this issue, and they're the ones that told me that it was not a problem to have tenwiki. Steven Walling at work 16:58, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

German Federal Archives won't extend collaboration with Wikimedia
All in all it sounds like a very successful pilot project, evaluated in both its seen benefits as well as the costs. This means that the Bundesarchiv or any other similar organization has good background for a new decision for such cooperation. It seems to be a matter of will and funding. Also here I have to say that 800-pixel wide images -- not much to store for the future -- is ok for a pilot project for Wikimedia but not a real cooperation. -- Sverdrup (talk) 10:51, 23 November 2010 (UTC)


 * It has been great for Wikipedia getting all the Bundesarchiv images: just look, say, Weimar Republic or Adolf Hitler to see what a difference it has made; I hope the image collaboration can be restarted at some time. &mdash;innotata 17:10, 24 November 2010 (UTC)