2009/7/22 Pavlo Shevelo pavlo.shevelo@gmail.com:
There should not be any real problem to link wikimedia.org.uk directly to Wikimedia UK chapter wiki (wherever it's hosted).
It depends on how the WMF has everything set up. They have a complicated setup for hosting multiple wikis, it may well be hard-coded that they all use the WMF domains. I'm cross-posting this to wikitech-l, hopefully someone there can clarify the situation. Can a wiki hosted on the WMF servers use a non-WMF domain?
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Thomas Daltonthomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
2009/7/22 Pavlo Shevelo pavlo.shevelo@gmail.com:
There should not be any real problem to link wikimedia.org.uk directly to Wikimedia UK chapter wiki (wherever it's hosted).
It depends on how the WMF has everything set up. They have a complicated setup for hosting multiple wikis, it may well be hard-coded that they all use the WMF domains. I'm cross-posting this to wikitech-l, hopefully someone there can clarify the situation. Can a wiki hosted on the WMF servers use a non-WMF domain?
Of course it can. There are plenty of domains for Wikimedia wikis, there's no reason you couldn't add as many more as you felt like. Likewise some subdomains of Wikimedia domains are hosted on non-Wikimedia servers. You can point domain names however you like. (Disclaimer: I'm not a shell user, but this is still right. :P)
Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Thomas Daltonthomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
2009/7/22 Pavlo Shevelo pavlo.shevelo@gmail.com:
There should not be any real problem to link wikimedia.org.uk directly to Wikimedia UK chapter wiki (wherever it's hosted).
It depends on how the WMF has everything set up. They have a complicated setup for hosting multiple wikis, it may well be hard-coded that they all use the WMF domains. I'm cross-posting this to wikitech-l, hopefully someone there can clarify the situation. Can a wiki hosted on the WMF servers use a non-WMF domain?
Of course it can. There are plenty of domains for Wikimedia wikis, there's no reason you couldn't add as many more as you felt like. Likewise some subdomains of Wikimedia domains are hosted on non-Wikimedia servers. You can point domain names however you like. (Disclaimer: I'm not a shell user, but this is still right. :P)
Well, there's a policy question, which is potentially more complicated than the technical question, but I asked it internally when Wikimedia Australia was setting up and the answer was yes.
-- Tim Starling
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