Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
On 12/31/05, Axel Boldt <axelboldt(a)yahoo.com>
wrote:
I'm currently collecting peer-reviewed
academic articles that cite
Wikipedia at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_as_an_academic_source
and for whatever reason, several refer to Wikipedia using the address
en2.wikipedia.org. Currently that address does not work, which should
be fixed. These are printed articles that will sit in the world's
libraries forever.
is a relic from the time that Wikipedia's load
balancing consisted of users manually selecting to use en. or en2. The
alias shouldn't have been removed.
We used to have everything on a wildcard DNS entry, which got changed to
explicit entries when we set up our new DNS system (with all the geographic
splitting stuff). Apparently someone forgot about en2 when doing that; I'll add it.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)