[Wikipedia-l] Re: Wikiquote now has subdomains

Sat Jul 17 16:22:31 UTC 2004

> Wikiquote now has specific-language subdomains. Instead of creating
> wikis for all 150 languages, I made a system where wikis are only
> created when they're wanted. To save time during maintenance 
> operations,
> it should now be possible to delete unused Wiktionaries and even
> Wikipedias until they are required.
>
> Similar conversion of Wikibooks should be a fairly simple thing, I'm 
> now
> just waiting for community approval. We can't put subdomains under
> wikisource.org because the domain name doesn't point to the right 
> place.
> It's owned by Mav and points to a redirect server, redirecting to
> quote.wikipedia.org.

So, in terms of wikimarkup, you could use something like [[quote:Main 
Page]] to link to Wikiquote's main page from a Wikipedia or Wiktionary? 
  What about [[books:Main Page]] or [[source:Main Page]]?