[Wikipedia-l] Wikiquote now has subdomains

Sun Jul 18 02:50:16 UTC 2004

Tim Starling wrote:

> 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. 

It's sources.wikipedia.org.

Why would Wikisource want sub-domains anyway?  We're doing quite well 
with all languages in a single project.

Ec