Forum:Changing the wiki URL Part 2

Changing the wiki URL
So...We have hit a snafu. Our desired name change has been denied due to the technical difficulties. The SITENAME change (Old School RuneScape Wiki) and the custom project NAMESPACE (RuneScape) should be good to go.

You can read the email from Wikia support.

Tim Quievryn, May 8, 4:42 PM UTC:

Hello,

After discussion, my fears were correct. The 2007 prefix has been an issue with us planning on rolling out SSL and HTTPs setup for a long time now and, while it's not urgent, we've been slowing heading to the point where we'd need to talk to the community about removing the prefix.

To be honest, since there's a clear need to go ahead and change the SITENAME, I think the best thing to do is remove the custom prefix and change the SITENAME now. We can pretty much do anything within the usual URL space in so long as we don't have a custom prefix.

According to this we can go still do a URL change but not have a prefix in the url (ie. oldschool.runescape.wikia.com). This means we need to come up with a new name regardless as Wiki is planning on moving us sometime in the future.

I'm starting a discussion thread for suggestions on the new wiki url.

Here's a couple to start off. Note, the order that I put them in does not matter.


 * oldschoolrunescape.wikia.com
 * osrs.wikia.com
 * 2007scape.wikia.com
 * oldscape.wikia.com
 * osrunescape.wikia.com

19:10, May 8, 2017 (UTC)