On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 10:09 PM, Martin Urbanec <
martin.urbanec(a)wikimedia.cz> wrote:
The question I'm raising is if we accept mail on
wikipedia.org and if we
do, why we use
wikipedia.org instead of
wikimedia.org which is more
frequent domain for mail and which will make more sense for global setting
applicable to literally all projects WMF run.
Martin
As I understand,
wikipedia.org still technically works as a domain for
email, mostly as a holdover from the really old days (I'm talking like
2003). So I think the most likely explanation here is that this field was
never updated and there was never a reason to if the address still
technically works.
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James Hare
Associate Product Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
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