Daniel:

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But why is everything at en.wikipedia.org? Wikimedia.org would make a great deal more sense.

Aphaea:

Or wikimediafoundation.org ?

This is partly for historic reasons. Wikipedia and Wiktionary stats were already placed at en.wikipedia.org, so I just extended that scheme for other projects.

Moving the stats now would break a lot of links, not all links on wikipedia pages are to the sitemap pages, so I guess each html file would need a separate redirect?

Similarly why is common.wikipedia.org not named common.wikimedia.org? Other Wikimedia projects can benefit from a shared resource pool as well.

I guess these small inconsistencies are a fact of life. I can live with it, but if redirecting all existing links is easy, I don't mind moving all stats either.

Erik Zachte