by "actual" sitemap i mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site_map#XML_Sitemaps

See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:GenerateSitemap.php . Don't know if we really need one, though.

I feel this should be a Search and Discovery thing but i see the project tag was removed. Is there a better one?

@Deskana: Any idea who could decide on this request or in whose court that could be? :-/

Should http://sitemap.wikimedia.org/ [...] have an actual sitemap on it?

Who to make a call? Is this something to bring up on a Wikimedia mailing list or such?

In T101486#1478979, @Aklapper wrote:

@Deskana: Any idea who could decide on this request or in whose court that could be? :-/

Sorry, I have no idea.

Decom? Is anything using it or is this just an ancient alias that everyone has forgotten?

Nothing much in Google for this. except the ticket itself, adding exceptions for HTTPSeverywhere and meta stuff. Probably the latter. So if Discovery is not interested in this we should indeed remove it. The ticket should then be used to remove all the remnants.

Change 253375 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dzahn):
delete sitemap.wikimedia.org

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/253375

Change 253375 merged by Dzahn:
delete sitemap.wikimedia.org

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/253375

Change 253749 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dzahn):
mediawiki: remove sitemap.wm.org Apache redirect

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/253749

Change 253749 merged by Dzahn:
mediawiki: remove sitemap.wm.org Apache redirect

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/253749