[Mediawiki-i18n] [WikimediaMobile] mdot webroot redirects on Wikipedia Zero

Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki at gmail.com
Tue Oct 28 21:28:59 UTC 2014


Adam Baso, 28/10/2014 21:26:
> Hi, just wanted to give people a heads up about language-sensitive
> redirects on the m.wikipedia.org/ <http://m.wikipedia.org/> (and
> zero.wikipedia.org/ <http://zero.wikipedia.org/>) webroot:
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero/Accept-Language_Aware_Redirects
>
> Dan Foy, Maryana, and I spoke on this stuff, and we thought it would be
> best to see how this works in Wikipedia Zero land, and then if it works
> well, continue dialog for the mobile web Wikipedia webroot afterward for
> the non-Wikipedia Zero use case.
>
> Usually we don't like to vary the cache on Accept-Language, but this is
> one place where we're exploring the concept. It's possible to try to
> figure out the language prefix in Varnish, but for now we're trying this
> as a pure MediaWiki thing.

Cc mediawiki-i18n. As for MediaWiki, this is UniversalLanguageSelector 
domain; outside MediaWiki, do note the project portals 
(<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project_portals>) sorely need to be 
made language-aware at some point, and probably have several orders of 
magnitudes more visitors than the "mdot webroots".

Nemo



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