On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Marcin Cieslak saper@system.pl wrote:
This does not explain the issue of the *.ts.wikimedia.org domain as a whole. We shouldn't surprise users and move supposedly "stable" services around, although acceptance of the Java-based edit counter is IMHO low: enwiki has only 90 links to the stable counter vs. well over 5000 to interiot's counter (result's are skewed due to automatic inclusion of the link in the IP user talk).
Localization changes this a bit since plwiki has 232 links to the "stable" one and 2487 to interiot's.
So, I would recommend to maintain ts.wikimedia.org for some indefinite time, since people _are_ using it.
As River said in that e-mail, "when a project is ready, it will be moved to the new server and an HTTP redirect (if applicable) added on the old server." The URL won't break, it will redirect to the correct location. With all these cookies we want to set for *.wikimedia.org with SUL, having unapproved content on that domain isn't a good idea.