[Incubator] [Langcom-l] Welcome pages and info pages at Incubator

[Robin Pepermans]

I had already made the code to set a custom logo, so it wasn't that
difficult to implement it.
The variable, that was already used by Special:RandomByTest, is "testwiki".

With the changes I made, if your preference is set to Wx/xyz or if the
URL contains &testwiki=wx/xyz:
*  a custom logo will be displayed on Wx/xyz pages
* non-existing Wx/xyz pages will redirect to the real wiki if it exists
* recent changes is already currently set to limit to changes in wx/xyz pages

You used &title=MainPage&project=wb/xyz but it would be difficult to
implement it so that you can access it without the prefix in &title.

I would like to have these redirects quite soon. Maybe we can talk
about it / propose it at Wikimania.

2011/7/17 Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com>:
> That's great :)
>
> My general suggestion for that is the next:
> * You should create a new variable, called something like "project".
> So, there would be two different ways of seeing the content. One as
> ".../index.php?title=wp/xyz/MainPage", the other as
> "../index.php?project=wb/xyz&title=MainPage". The last one would be
> used for regular approach to the Incubator, the first one for
> approaching "virtual project".
> * If someone approaches to the project=wp/xyz, everything would be
> seen as it is a separate project: different logo, different links. For
> example, "Recent changes" link should lead to the RC limited just on
> wp/xyz project. Search as well; and so on. But, if someone approaches
> to the title=wp/xyz/MainPage, everything would be as it is now on
> Incubator.
> * After that, you should interpret redirected URL. If the URL is
> "xyz.wikipedia.org" (i.e., not the name of the main project), then you
> would redirect it directly to "project=wp/xyz&title=<whatever>".
>
> With those enchantments, Incubator Extension would be ready for
> redirects implementation. (OK, at that moment you should ask others to
> test the extension. If you want, I could point a couple of DNS entries
> to your site; if you want hosting with regular mod_rewrite, I can give
> it to you.)
>
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