On 18.05.2011 20:17, Ashar Voultoiz wrote:
On 18/05/11 07:31, Dmitriy Sintsov wrote:
With many wiki farms it would be nice to use /yourlangcode/index.php path prefix rather than yourlangcode.my.domain in domain name. Such setup is possible, however is not quickly automated (like "instant commons"). One should dig that manually.
An example would be http://wikitravel.org/
I know that site. I also had my own similar farm with path-based interlanguage links.
It is not a wanted feature for the WMF cluster which wants to redirect some languages/projects pairs to different clusters.
hi.wikipedia.org (Hindi), could be made to points to an Indian Cluster ja.wikipedia.org (Japanese) ... to an Asian cluster.
So we actually want different domains :b
Is a cluster redirect for URI path ever possible? If so, how much slower would it work? Ordinary load balancing should work for one DNS-name small sites. I never know the implications of running huge Wikipedia.
One domain has one advantage, usually the bigger the site is, the higher ranks it has (of course, in case the information is not junk). I guess Wikipedia counts not like small sities.
Using action names instead of /wiki/ also is a great idea. /wiki/ looks a bit redundant. Dmitriy