Brion Vibber hett schreven:
For quick background, it's pretty painful to rename a database in our system, and we currently have a lot of bits in our configuration that make automatic relationships between the database name and the domain name, so this has delayed renaming of some language subdomains for a while.
It's not impossible to have them be different, just fairly awkward. :)
I'd like to get these done soon, but before we get started, I want to make sure the queue is complete and ready to go. I've currently got four language code renames that I see being requested...
== Low German ==
nds.wikipedia.org -> nds-de.wikipedia.org nds.wikibooks.org -> nds-de.wikibooks.org nds.wikiquote.org -> nds-de.wikiquote.org nds.wiktionary.org -> nds-de.wiktionary.org
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8540
Reasoning: Disambiguation of country variants to create a portal site (nds-nl.wikipedia.org exists as well).
The original request is almost 2 years old and didn't seem to have any clear consensus; is this still desired?
Creating a portal site could cause difficulties with URL compatibility, and I don't really recommend making this change without clear consensus from the community there.
Note that nds.wikipedia.org includes a link on the front page to nds-nl.wikipedia.org.
If the domain were to be changed, only nds.wikipedia should be changed to nds-de.wikipedia. Wikibooks and Wiktionary are planned to be used for both variants of nds, just as not yet created Wikisource and Wikinews are. Wikiquote could be deleted completely. There never was productive activity and it is unlikely it will become active anytime soon. None of the active nds contributors is interested in Wikiquote.
But I think, the domain shouldn't be changed at all. There's no community consensus and we live quite good with the status quo since two years (since the creation of nds-nl.wikipedia). We shouldn't change the established code. nds.wikipedia is hosted under nds since more than five years.
Marcus Buck