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 <jgon...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 9:22 PM, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> 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
>
>>
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