Hi,
Is it possible in 2015 to rename Wikimedia domains?
The usual domain name structure for a Wikimedia project is
languageCode.project.org:
en.wikipedia.org,
it.wikisource.org, etc.
In a few projects the language code in the domain is different from the
actual language code: 'als' is a code for Tosk Albanian, but
als.wikipedia.org is written in Alemanic; 'no' is a code for both Bokmal
Norwegian and Nynorsk Norwegian, but
no.wikipedia.org is only Bokmal; and
there are several other examples.
In the past when requests to rename such domains were raised, the usual
replies were along the lines of "it's impossible" or "it's not
worth the
technical effort", but I don't know the details.
Is this still correct in 2015?
I would love to get that done, because these inconsistent and non-standard
codes repeatedly cause issues in various languages applications, the
current big one being ContentTranslation.
Thanks!
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