Is there a reason to not use a www in that url schema? If this change is made, you effectively have to support both, as there are hundreds of thousands of inbound links across all the projects. Easy enough to rewrite URLs, but not easy to change those links, or the mindset of those who have been using the lang.wikipedia.org http://lang.wikipedia.org schema for years.
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On 7/7/05, Angela beesley@gmail.com 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:
This isn't an objection since Alexa isn't accurate anyway, but this would prevent the "Where do people go on wikipedia.org?http://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?
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