-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
Andrew Garrett wrote:
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 11:04 PM, mike.lifeguard
<mike.lifeguard(a)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
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -
http://enigmail.mozdev.org
iEYEARECAAYFAkjFcXQACgkQwRnhpk1wk45m/ACeKGC1CSr1OHXqk6WxO7xxXdXH
o/8AniUGItNoFojc9OL8SWblbqisiCFW
=sXrP
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----