[Toolserver-l] toolserver.org

Francine R francine at nutmeg.ws
Wed May 28 13:34:55 UTC 2008


Maybe keeping a 301 Moved Permanently redirect for all requests to
*.ts.wikimedia.org to the corresponding page on toolserver.org would be
helpful? That way the old URLs would work, but people would be gently
reminded to use the new one.

-Francine

On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 15:15 +0200, Marcin Cieslak wrote:
> River Tarnell wrote:
> > Marcin Cieslak:
> >> What about http://stable.ts.wikimedia.org/editcount/ ?
> > 
> > <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/toolserver-l/2008-April/001328.html> - scroll
> > down to '3. new stable server'.
> 
> This does not explain the issue of the  *.ts.wikimedia.org domain as
> a whole.  We shouldn't surprise users and move supposedly "stable" 
> services around, although acceptance of the Java-based edit counter is 
> IMHO low: enwiki has only 90 links to the stable counter vs. well over 
> 5000 to interiot's counter (result's are skewed due to automatic 
> inclusion of the link in the IP user talk).
> 
> Localization changes this a bit since plwiki has 232 links to the 
> "stable" one and 2487 to interiot's.
> 
> So, I would recommend to maintain ts.wikimedia.org for some indefinite 
> time, since people _are_ using it.
> 
> --Marcin
> 
> 
> 
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