https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19986
Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #16 from Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> --- Do we really need to rename a wiki, when all we need is to change the existing DNS entry to become an alias (CNAME) ? This way all URLs continue working, we just get a deprecated synonym and we all all the time to change the various wikis and local templates to use the new interwiki code. For HTTPS, it may be needed to adjust the certificate to be valid on the new domain and the old one (aliased to the new one). This would apply to: - be-x-old > be-tarask - zh-classical > lzh - zh-yue > yue - zh-min-nan > nan We'll then have years to use the new prefered interwiki codes, and all external sites will continue working with their existing URLs. Smart search engines will detect the aliasing of the old domain, but they may require that the server returns some server identification to make sure they have identical contents and replace their past references in their caches. HTTP also offers a header to indicate this to the client, simply by using HTTP redirects from the old URL to the new one where only the domain name is changed or by using cache-control headers specifying the prefered equivalent canonical URL to keep in cache, if we don't want to reduce the performance by forcing clients to reemit their request. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
