Aryeh Gregor wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Thomas Dalton<[email protected]> wrote:
>> 2009/7/22 Pavlo Shevelo <[email protected]>:
>>> There should not be any real problem to link wikimedia.org.uk directly
>>> to Wikimedia UK chapter wiki (wherever it's hosted).
>> It depends on how the WMF has everything set up. They have a
>> complicated setup for hosting multiple wikis, it may well be
>> hard-coded that they all use the WMF domains. I'm cross-posting this
>> to wikitech-l, hopefully someone there can clarify the situation. Can
>> a wiki hosted on the WMF servers use a non-WMF domain?
> 
> Of course it can.  There are plenty of domains for Wikimedia wikis,
> there's no reason you couldn't add as many more as you felt like.
> Likewise some subdomains of Wikimedia domains are hosted on
> non-Wikimedia servers.  You can point domain names however you like.
> (Disclaimer: I'm not a shell user, but this is still right.  :P)

Well, there's a policy question, which is potentially more complicated
than the technical question, but I asked it internally when Wikimedia
Australia was setting up and the answer was yes.

-- Tim Starling


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