[Campaigns-l] US-only or international?

[BLueRibbon]

On Fri, 7 Jul 2006 02:16:55 +0200, "Erik Moeller" <eloquence at gmail.com>
said:

> Right now the frontpage and content is very US-centric, which is not
> surprising given the way the news about the site has propagated. I
> wonder whether any thought has been put into whether and how to
> internationalize the project yet. In Wikipedia, the project is split
> across languages -- it seems to me that something like this might be
> best split across countries, such as:
> 
> campaigns.de.wikia.com => Germany
> campaigns.fr.wikia.com => France
> 
> Of course, many countries have multiple official languages, so you might
> need
> 
> campaigns.ca-fr.wikia.com => Canada, French
> campaigns.ca-en.wikia.com => Canada, English
> 
> The URLs tend to get a bit awful - if the project grows, perhaps it
> should get its own domain name. Does this approach seem sensible
> otherwise? If so, it might be good to have a page where people can
> sign up if they are interested in a campaigns wiki(a) for a particular
> country/region.

Hmm, it would be a good idea, but those URLs are beginning to look more
like browser strings than a web address ;)
I think a new domain would work better, as you suggested.

~ BLueRibbon

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