Hi!
2014-05-10 22:34 GMT+02:00 seth email_metawiki_138@wg-karlsruhe.de:
gudn tach! (Hi!)
On 09.05.2014 16:44, Merlijn van Deen wrote:
What is the problem with just keeping a tools.wikimedia.de/* -> toolserver.org/* redirect? It's a trivial redirect, and users will then automatically be redirected from toolserver.org to their destination.
This is a very legitimate question and I would appreciate a (public) answer to this for the sake of transparency.
There we go: It is not a trivial redirect: Wikimedia Deutschland will obviously not give the wildcard SSL certificate for *.wikimedia.de to WMF (and WMF would not want to have it). This would mean we would have to completely delegate that subdomain to WMF and guarantee that it stays like that forever. This is hard to guarantee and it is also misleading to delegate a .de subdomain to the Foundation. This is why I'm asking tool developers to replace this link in their tools. (Yes, it is used inside older tools, not just somewhere in this internet.)
Best, Silke