It seems to be one of the few valid DNS domains allowed by this rewrite:
# Send www.de.wikipedia.org -> de.wikipedia.org
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.([a-z-]+)\.wikipedia\.org$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ %{ENV:RW_PROTO}://%1.wikipedia.org$1 [R=301,L]I'm trying to remove those rewrites (for other projects too) in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/256441/
Is www.m.wikipedia.org actually used?
| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| delete www.m.wikipedia.org | operations/dns | master | +0 -1 | |
| Remove www.([a-z-]+) rewrites | operations/puppet | production | +0 -24 |
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | None | T120143 Investigate if www.m.wikipedia.org needs to stay around | |||
| Resolved | Dzahn | T123431 Investigate if login.m.wikimedia.org needs to stay around |
Change 256441 had a related patch set uploaded (by Reedy):
Remove www.([a-z-] ) rewrites
If i got it right then ~ 0.000272% of all hits in /srv/log/webrequest/sampled-1000.json on oxygen have been to www.m.wikipedia.org . a random example showed Opera Mini on Android using Special:Search for some reason
14:25 < mutante> hello mobile team, when cleaning up Apache config in a different matter (old redirects for stuff like www.de.wikipedia.org that dont exist anymore) we noticed that we have a "www.m." (as opposed to languages), but only for wikipedia.org and not for any other projects. It would be nice to know if we
could a) delete www.m.wikipedia.org (because it is maybe no different from the "desktop" URL) or b) it should actually be added for other projects c) we want "www" at all on mobile as opposed to "naked domain"
14:25 < mutante> this might somehow be related to the "move portals to gerrit" work
14:26 < mutante> if this was a wiki it would be about mobile frontend extension, but no clue with portal pages
14:28 < niedzielski> mutante dbrant mdholloway: i don't know of any place where android is using m.wikipedia.org
14:39 < niedzielski> mutante: yeah i don't think we point to www.m.wikipedia.org anywhere. everything's either lang.m.wikipedia.org, lang.wikipedia.org, or www.wikipedia.org AFAIK
Change 256597 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dzahn):
delete www.m.wikipedia.org
[17:31:10] <_joe_> Reedy: actually, this is strange, uhm [17:31:46] <Reedy> ? [17:31:49] <_joe_> Reedy: that rewrite for www.m does work on apache [17:32:03] <_joe_> but it's varnish that decides to serve the desktop wikipedia in that case... [17:32:08] <Reedy> Haha [17:32:31] <_joe_> so no effect anyways, let's go