Is there a reason to not use a www in that url schema? If this change is
made, you effectively have to support both, as there are hundreds of
thousands of inbound links across all the projects. Easy enough to rewrite
URLs, but not easy to change those links, or the mindset of those who have
been using the
lang.wikipedia.org <http://lang.wikipedia.org> schema for
years.
/Alterego
On 7/7/05, Angela <beesley(a)gmail.com> wrote:
however, at the same time, we could implement a
change in the way domain
names are used, that has been discussed several times in the past:
-
http://wikipedia.org/en/article/Main_Page
-
http://wikipedia.org/en/edit/Main_Page
This isn't an objection since Alexa isn't accurate anyway, but this
would prevent the "Where do people go on
wikipedia.org?<http://wikipedia.org?>"
at
<http://alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&url=wikipedia.org>
from working.
I'm not sure what other examples there are of a subdomain having any
relevance to external sites. Google Adsense used to give more
information if you split your site by subdomains, but now lets you
track directories as well as subdomains. Not that that would be a
relevant point for Wikimedia projects, but are there any other
external stats that people use that do need Wikipedia to have
subdomains?
Angela.
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