Angela wrote:
however, at the same time, we could implement a change in the way domain names are used, that has been discussed several times in the past:
- http://wikipedia.org/en/article/Main_Page - http://wikipedia.org/en/edit/Main_PageThis isn't an objection since Alexa isn't accurate anyway, but this would prevent the "Where do people go on wikipedia.org?" at http://alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&url=wikipedia.org from working.
I'm not sure what other examples there are of a subdomain having any relevance to external sites. Google Adsense used to give more information if you split your site by subdomains, but now lets you track directories as well as subdomains. Not that that would be a relevant point for Wikimedia projects, but are there any other external stats that people use that do need Wikipedia to have subdomains?
Personally, I like being able to Google-search with parameters like "site:en.wikipedia.org" to return results only from one wikipedia.