On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 10:59 PM, Andrew Garrett <andrew(a)epstone.net> wrote:
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 11:04 PM, mike.lifeguard
<mike.lifeguard(a)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.
--
Stephen Bain
stephen.bain(a)gmail.com