[Foundation-l] Britain or Ukraine? What UK stands for in Wikimedia jargon

[Pavlo Shevelo]

>> I don't get it why elimination depends on hosting.
>
> I'm not sure how the WMF servers are set up, it might be possible to
> direct our domain directly at their servers... Worth looking into.

Please look into as move to own servers will not be in nearest weeks.
As to the best of my understanding:
* domain name management is separate (from hosting) thing.
* technically both uk.wikimedia.org and wikimedia.org.uk are very
similar things.
Now (according to your explanation) uk.wikimedia.org is linked to your
chapter wiki (using IP address I guess), while  wikimedia.org.uk is
redirection to former.
There should not be any real problem to link wikimedia.org.uk directly
to Wikimedia UK chapter wiki (wherever it's hosted).


On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Thomas Dalton<thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/7/22 Pavlo Shevelo <pavlo.shevelo at gmail.com>:
>>> ... At some point we will probably want to set
>>> up our own server(s) and then the confusion will be eliminated.
>>
>> I don't get it why elimination depends on hosting.
>
> I'm not sure how the WMF servers are set up, it might be possible to
> direct our domain directly at their servers... Worth looking into.
>
>> Anyhow is it possible to have some explicit estimation about when "at
>> some point" could happen?
>
> Not really. It depends on both when we have the funds to do it
> (hopefully in the next year) and when we feel we would gain
> significantly from it (which could be longer - at the moment the WMF's
> setup works perfectly well for us).
>
>> let me ask one sorta side question:
>> Now, when Wikimedia UK wiki is hosted on WMF resources you have a
>> luxury of SUL support. Do you have any idea whether it will be still
>> possible when you will move to your own server(s)?
>
> Good question. I don't know. I would guess not - it would require our
> servers to have a connection to the WMF database server...
>
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