<div dir="ltr">Silke,<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 May 2014 16:37, Silke Meyer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:silke.meyer@wikimedia.de" target="_blank">silke.meyer@wikimedia.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">The domain <a href="http://tools.wikimedia.de" target="_blank">tools.wikimedia.de</a>, aliasing <a href="http://toolserver.org" target="_blank">toolserver.org</a>, has been<br>
deprecated for a very long time. It is legacy from the past and we<br>
kept it for your convenience **so you wouldn't have to modify any tool.**<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>(emphasis mine)</div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div>As tool authors, we typically cannot change the URL people use to access our tool -- if there is a link to <a href="http://tools.wikimedia.de">tools.wikimedia.de</a> on some wiki, on some website or in someones bookmarks, there is not an easy way to change it.</div>
<div><br></div></div></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">With the toolserver redirects to Tool Labs things are getting<br>
complicated enough without this old stuff.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>What is the problem with just keeping a <a href="http://tools.wikimedia.de/*">tools.wikimedia.de/*</a> -> <a href="http://toolserver.org/*">toolserver.org/*</a> redirect? It's a trivial redirect, and users will then automatically be redirected from <a href="http://toolserver.org">toolserver.org</a> to their destination.</div>
<div><br></div><div>MerlijnĀ </div></div></div></div>