because right now commons.wikipedia.org is already redirecting to wikimedia
if you change this behavior now, you may confuse some people who were expecting it to redirect... but I don't really care On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 8:44 AM, K. Peachey <[email protected]> wrote: > How is that meant to pervent confusion? you are just sticking a extra > ".api" in the address. > > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote: >> What about inserting another domain just to prevent confusion and to >> keep current redirects, which would ONLY allow api, such as >> >> commons.api.wikipedia.org >> >> the *.api.<project> would just be some kind of universal api gateway >> for all domains >> >> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Juliusz Gonera <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 9:22 PM, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Please draft an RFC at <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RFC>. :-) >>>> >>> >>> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Alternative_Commons_Domains >>> Please share your comments. >>> >>> >>>> commons.wikipedia.org already redirects to commons.wikimedia.org (for >>>> historical reasons, maybe), so that has to be considered. >>> >>> >>> Yes, it redirects. But to solve the problem I'm describing, the API would >>> need to be served from commons.wikipedia.org. >>> >>> >>>> I think what >>>> you're proposing is also kind of confusing and I'm wondering if there >>>> aren't better ways to approach the problem. >>>> >>> >>> I'm open to suggestions, but I'd rather not wait until CentralAuth gets >>> completely redesigned and rewritten. >>> >>> -- >>> Juliusz >>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikitech-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
