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Andrew Garrett wrote:
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 11:04 PM, mike.lifeguard mike.lifeguard@gmail.com wrote:
Shouldn't Commons be located at secure.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/commons and Meta at /wikimedia/meta rather than both being located at /wikipedia/? They are not on the wikipedia domain since they are not Wikipedias.
Mike
They're there for historical reasons.
The base reason for this is because of the internal naming conventions. We originally created various miscellaneous wikis as special cases within the core Wikipedia group:
Prefix: 'meta', 'commons', 'foundation', etc Database suffix: 'wiki' Directory: 'wikipedia'
...while other multi-language projects got their own suffixes:
Prefix: 'en', 'fr', etc Database suffix: 'wiktionary' Directory: 'wiktionary'
Eventually we started using the 'wikimedia' suffix for some Wikimedia chapters:
Prefix: 'nl', 'se', etc Database suffix: 'wikimedia' Directory: 'wikimedia'
In theory we could migrate other wikis to that system, but it may not be worth the trouble. :P
As for the secure.wikimedia.org oddities in general; we'd like to move the HTTPS system over to the primary domains for better usability (eg, http://commons.wikimedia.org/) but this has been a low priority for a while; I hope we'll be able to get it done over the coming months as we're able to ramp up with more available sysadmin time.
It requires some fun setup with proxying (all our proxy sites would have to proxy HTTPS as well as HTTP) and appropriate domain certificates to make sure everything works properly.
- -- brion