On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 10:59 PM, Andrew Garrett andrew@epstone.net wrote:
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 11:04 PM, mike.lifeguard mike.lifeguard@gmail.com wrote:
Shouldn't Commons be located at secure.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/commons and Meta at /wikimedia/meta rather than both being located at /wikipedia/? They are not on the wikipedia domain since they are not Wikipedias.
They're there for historical reasons.
Indeed. Meta started as a fork off Wikipedia and was originally at http://meta.wikipedia.com (yes, .com, it's that old - in fact when it started I believe there was only one Wikipedia, enwiki, and it was only after most enwiki policy debate moved off meta onto wikien-l and enwiki itself that meta became what it is today, a cross-project coordination wiki).
Commons was always "Wikimedia Commons", and always at it's current address. However, I believe it was the first wiki under the wikimedia.org domain; meta was still under the wikipedia domain at that point. It is probably for this reason that it was lumped under /wikipedia/, though I'm just guessing.