[Imc-wales] Imc-wales Digest, Vol 6, Issue 9

[Bob Maycock]

Re the Big S.  I'm sorry, .\I just started doing it
cos i thought it looked cool.  if anyone has a problem
with it, it's ok.  Salud, bob
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>    1. Re: [Imc-uk-process] Can translation be
> enabled and	other
>       stuff (Genny)
>    2. Redirects,	was: Re: [imc-uk-tech]
> [Imc-uk-process] Can
>       translation be enabled	and other stuff (Chris)
>    3. Re: Imc-wales Digest, Vol 6, Issue 8 (Bob
> Maycock)
>    4. Big S (serencymru at phonecoop.coop)
>    5. Re: [Imc-uk-process] PROPOSAL: promotion
> guidelines (Genny)
>    6. Re: Big S (Maurice Jones)
>    7. Re: Big S (Maurice Jones)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 20:38:15 +0000
> From: Genny <vg at genny.force9.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Imc-wales] [Imc-uk-process] Can
> translation be enabled
> 	and	other stuff
> To: mish <mishd at fastmail.fm>
> Cc: imc-wales <imc-wales at lists.indymedia.org>,
> imc-uk-tech
> 	<imc-uk-tech at lists.indymedia.org>
> Message-ID: <45CB8A37.6070709 at genny.force9.co.uk>
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> Sorry - was I on the wrong list?
> 
> I'm sending this back to uk-tech and to imc-wales
> lists.
> 
> Please can people on the Wales list have a look and
> check whether this reflects what we decided on 
> Saturday and bearing in mind Mish's thoughts which
> are pasted below this message.  We've got to get 
> it right first time!  I know there have been a lot
> of messages today, but it's important that we 
> sort this one out. Ta.
> 
> OK, what I was thinking was that when, for example,
> I type the address:
> 
> http://www.birmingham.indymedia.org.uk,
> 
> I get redirected to:
> 
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/birmingham/
> 
> 
> so I thought maybe we would need the same for wales
> and cymru: that's these two addresses:
> 
> http://cymru.indymedia.org.uk/ - redirect to our
> welsh front page
> 
> http://wales.indymedia.org.uk/ - redirect to our
> english front page
> 
> 
> But I can see that the standard format is
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/specific
> region, so 
> I guess we would maybe also want:
> 
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/cymru *(see
> note below)
> 
> to redirect to:
> 
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/cy/regions/cymru-wales/
> (cy indicating cymraeg) so this one would be the
> proper address of our Welsh language front page
> 
> and
> 
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/wales
> 
> to redirect to
> 
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/cymru-wales/
> (en indicating english like the rest of the uk
> pages) so this one would be the proper address of
> our 
> English language front page.
> 
> * (note) Just to complicate things further, you'll
> see that it would also be possible to have 
> /cy/regions/cymru redirecting to the welsh language
> front page.  However, it seems to me to be much 
> more likely that someone looking for the site would
> assume it has the same format as other uk 
> regional sites (/en/regions/cymru).  In practice, I
> expect almost everyone comes to regional pages 
> via the uk front page or some other link...
> 
> I realise that all these http addresses are also
> https for secure connections...  I presume that bit 
> is automatic.  Hope so - I'm losing track of all
> these addresses :o)
> 
> Mish - I'm sorry but I have no idea what an
> .htaccess file is, except that on the only website
> I've 
> ever had admin access to, the files are saved in a
> folder called htdocs.
> 
> Genny
> No more messages today - I promise!
> 
> 
> mish wrote:
> > Moved this to imc-uk-tech
> > 
> >> I think maybe you misunderstood my question about
> the urls - what we wanted to know was whether we 
> >> could have the other two urls which would just
> redirect to the main one, not one for English and
> one 
> >> for Welsh, but addresses which people might try
> to reach us on directly (rather than via a link from
> 
> >> elsewhere) - they may try wales or cymru but
> wouldn't necessarily think of trying cymru-wales.
> > 
> > So you mean you want these addresses to work?
> > 
> > http://wales.indymedia.org.uk/ 
> > http://cymru.indymedia.org.uk/
> > 
> > Should be easy to have both these set up :)  But
> they will have to
> > redirect to something like
> > 
> >
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/cymru-wales/
> > and
> >
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/cy/regions/cymru-wales/
> > 
> > The word at the end will have to be chosen once
> and then you'll have to
> > live with it.  So you do have to make a choice
> about that.
> > 
> > Though I guess we can set up
> > 
> > http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/cymru/ (and
> similar) to redirect
> > as well through a .htaccess file.  Hmmm.
> > 
> > Hope that helps.
> > 
> > Hamish
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 22:12:03 +0000
> From: Chris <chris at aktivix.org>
> Subject: [Imc-wales] Redirects,	was: Re:
> [imc-uk-tech]
> 	[Imc-uk-process] Can translation be enabled	and
> other stuff
> To: Genny <vg at genny.force9.co.uk>
> Cc: mish <mishd at fastmail.fm>, imc-wales
> 	<imc-wales at lists.indymedia.org>,	imc-uk-tech
> 	<imc-uk-tech at lists.indymedia.org>
> Message-ID: <20070208221203.GA11105 at aktivix.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> 
> Hi
> 
> 
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