Re: [Wikimedia-l] Redirect blog.wikipedia.org to the Wikimedia Blog

2015-11-30 Thread Joe Sutherland
I've created a Phabricator task for this at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119888, if anyone would like to track this there, add your thoughts, etc. Joe -- *Joe Sutherland* Communications Intern [remote] joesutherland.rocks | @jrbsu

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Redirect blog.wikipedia.org to the Wikimedia Blog

2015-11-29 Thread Lodewijk
Another reason for doing this, is to cover people who are actually looking for the official blog (please note that many volunteers also write at blog.wikimedia.org), but who simply confuse wikimedia and wikipedia - not entirely uncommon. blog.wikimedia.org is the closest this there is for the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Redirect blog.wikipedia.org to the Wikimedia Blog

2015-11-29 Thread MZMcBride
Lodewijk wrote: >Another reason for doing this, is to cover people who are actually looking >for the official blog (please note that many volunteers also write at >blog.wikimedia.org), but who simply confuse wikimedia and wikipedia - not >entirely uncommon. blog.wikimedia.org is the closest this

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Redirect blog.wikipedia.org to the Wikimedia Blog

2015-11-28 Thread MZMcBride
Amir Ladsgroup wrote: >The subject is self-explanatory (also I have this suggestion for >blog.wikiquote.org and other projects as well) > >What do you think? Hi. Why? The request is self-explanatory, but the uses and use-cases are not. MZMcBride

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Redirect blog.wikipedia.org to the Wikimedia Blog

2015-11-28 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
Why? I would prefer not, as I like the project domains to be kept clean, and I suspect it would (by effect if not intent) be abusing 'wikipedia's name to push meta content higher up in the results. Project domains should be used for that project only, so IMO it would only be appropriate to host

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Redirect blog.wikipedia.org to the Wikimedia Blog

2015-11-28 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
We already have some subdomains that are not related to language, biggest example: ten.wikipedia.org My motivation of this request is that makes access for people who doesn't know what's wikimedia easier. Everyone knows wikipedia but less people know about wikimedia and the organization behind

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Redirect blog.wikipedia.org to the Wikimedia Blog

2015-11-28 Thread Pete Forsyth
Amir, My initial, gut reaction to your suggestion was positive. I like that you have thought of a way to make blog content more accessible to the public. However, on reflection: * The Planet Wikimedia blog predates the Wikimedia Foundation's blog by some years, and is well populated by a variety