*sigh*
Please look a little further. I never claimed there were ads on
example.[org|com|net]. There were ads on [some of|many of] the other URLs
that were used as example URLs. These were normalised *and*
example.com was
changed to
example.org - yes, because we like .org better than .com.
I couldn't care less about you reverting .org to .com, I would have cared if
you reverted to all the 'spammy' URLs that made less sense.
Siebrand
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: wikitech-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] Namens Brion Vibber
Verzonden: zaterdag 12 juli 2008 16:32
Aan: Wikimedia developers
Onderwerp: Re: [Wikitech-l][MediaWiki-CVS]
SVN:[37552]trunk/phase3/languages/messages/MessagesEn.php
Siebrand Mazeland wrote:
Like Simetrical said: we like .org better than .com,
and as many 'example'
domains pointed to pages showing ads, I thought I'd solve it. First in
the English localisation, then in 100+ others.
example.com and
example.org both display this text only:
You have reached this web page by typing "example.com",
"example.net", or "example.org" into your web browser.
These domain names are reserved for use in documentation and are
not available for registration. See RFC 2606, Section 3.
There are no ads. It's good to fix up the other non-standard example URLs,
but IMHO
example.com is more widely used in documentation, and .com
hostnames are more familiar to most users, so I'd rather stick with the
example.com we've used for years than change it gratuitously.
I've replaced the changed URLs back to
example.com.
-- brion