COM: and C: be made redirects to commons:, as WP: works for en-wiki
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	AdamCuerden
	Apr 30 2008, 9:27 PM

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commons.wikimedia.org has an awkward situation where both COM: and C: are used for redirects to Commons: directories: e.g. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/COM:FPC and http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/C:FPC both go to http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_picture_candidates

However, having two ways of doing redirects sometimes means that one gets missed out for some of the shortcuts.

Hence, I propose that COM: and C: on commons.wikimedia.org be made redirects to the Commons: directory, as WP: is a redirect to the Wikipedia directory on en.wikipedia.org

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URL: http://commons.wikimedia.org

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Reference: bz13904

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AdamCuerden created this task.Apr 30 2008, 9:27 PM

com: is reserved as an iso 639-3 language code for Comanche.

With all respect, that makes fixing this more important, because COM: is ''already'' in wide use on commons, and large parts of commons will be broken if com: is later taken over.

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 12600 ***

bugs wrote:

(In reply to comment #2)

With all respect, that makes fixing this more important, because COM: is
''already'' in wide use on commons, and large parts of commons will be broken
if com: is later taken over.

er, actually that example means that /Commons/ needs to fix that. A bug creating an alias would later be a conflict with the interwiki link.

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