Replace wiki.ubuntu.com with help.ubuntu.com/commmunity

[Marc K.]

I'm sure several of you are looking at that subject line and thinking- 
"you have got to be kidding me"; but I am very serious.

As you imagine, there is a very large confusion between help.ubuntu.com 
and wiki.ubuntu.com.

I cannot imagine the number of people who go to wiki.ubuntu.com looking 
for "Community" Ubuntu Help or get there by searching for "Ubuntu Wiki" in 
Google or Yahoo.  Then they get to wiki.ubuntu.com and are completely 
thrown for a loop.

I know this is really going to ruffle some feathers, and possibly throw 
everyone up in arms, but I started thinking about this in a logical 
manner, and I believe this can be done with little work and not a lot of 
confusion.

The important thing to keep in mind is that both wiki.ubuntu.com and 
help.ubuntu.com are essentially Virtual Hosts pointing to the same A 
records:

wiki.ubuntu.com has address 91.189.90.19
help.ubuntu.com has address 91.189.90.19

Here is my thought process:

1) Set up the Virtual Host: team.ubuntu.com
2) Have it point to the same directory as the files and database currently 
housing the files for wiki.ubuntu.com

At this point, "technically", both wiki.ubuntu.com and team.ubuntu.com are 
both pointing to the exact same directory and database on the server.

3) Change  "help.ubuntu.com/community" into the VirtualHost 
"wiki.ubuntu.com" and set up a redirect.

This would leave us with:

a) help.ubuntu.com- The Official Help Documents
b) wiki.ubuntu.com- Community Help Wiki
- Would the central location for WikiGuide, PageCreation, Formatting, 
etc....
c) teams.ubuntu.com- The Community Team Wiki

In fact, we can also set up guides.ubuntu.com for the Server and Switching 
guides, etc....

I would think this would only break a small amount of links that we can 
fix manually.

Unfortunately, I foreseee this would as something that the entire 
community would need to approve, but it just makes common sense.

Would there be harm in considering this modification for the Jaunty 
release?

Well, the only BIG issue I can foresee is everyone getting upset that it 
breaks their local bookmarks.

Marc K.