Brion Vibber wrote:
Are you sure
wikimedia.org can't also set a cookie for the
wikipedia.org
domain?
It could redirect to a page on
wikipedia.org that sets a
wikipedia.org
cookie, but I'm not sure what the point of the exercise would be.
Right. It's absolutely true that
wikimedia.org can't directly set a
cookie for
wikipedia.org. It's also true that we could wing it with
some complicated redirects. But I see no good reason to do that!
I'm not sure where this suggestion was coming from, exactly, or what
the point was supposed to be.
My thinking is that for the foreseeable future,
wikimedia.org will
just be a page describing the foundation, with nice pretty pictures of
all the Ivy-covered buildings on our expansive campus, and information
about how our billion dollar endowment is invested. Oh, wait, I'm
dreaming, sorry.
But, anyhow, the
wikimedia.org site isn't going to take the place of
wikipedia.org as the main portal for people to sign in.
The only reason, really, for the wikimedia name is (a) it sounds cool
and (b) it points towards the idea that we have a grand vision for the
future that is multi-media, that is beyond just the encyclopedia, etc.
But, for now, we're the encyclopedia.
--Jimbo