On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 11:59 AM Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)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(a)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
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