On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 11:59 AM Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, Will the old URL-s continue to work.. I have a considerable amount of text linking to allsorts.
Yes, at least at the URL handling level, the legacy URLs will continue to work. This was mentioned in the original announcement:
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 5:25 AM Arturo Borrero Gonzalez aborrero@wikimedia.org wrote:
We aim to introduce permanent redirects for the legacy URLs on 2020-06-15. We expect to keep serving legacy URLs forever, by means of redirections to the new URLs. More information on the redirections can also be found in the wikitech page.
Once the 'final' switch to the new URL scheme is complete we will introduce a static webservice somewhere in Cloud VPS that will issue "308 moved permanently" redirects for all of the tools.wmflabs.org/$TOOL root URLs that existed at that point in time. This will be similar in spirit if not implementation to the service we run which redirects toolserver.org/$WHATEVER URLs to tools.wmflabs.org URLs today.
Bryan