Lean domain management
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To save funds and coordination costs, as well as to increase usibility Wikimedia should rethink the domain policy.
A lean and cheap proposal would be to use only one second-level domain, e.g. "wikimedia.org".
Via subdomains and pathes the URLs will organize <projects> and <lang>.
where project could be:
- books, commons, dict, news, pedia, source, species(.pedia)
- a <countrycode> (for national organisations)
- <project>.wikimedia.org/<lang>
- books.wikimedia.org/en
- foundation.wikimedia.org/en
- <lang>.wikimedia.org/<project>
- en.wikimedia.org/pedia
- <lang>.<project>.wikimedia.org
- en.commons.wikimedia.org
- en.source.wikimedia.org
- <project>.<lang>.wikimedia.org
With a single secondlevel domain, cookie handling for Single sign-on would be easier.