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

[Aryeh Gregor]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Thomas Dalton<thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/7/22 Pavlo Shevelo <pavlo.shevelo at 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)