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Hi,
I'm one of the founders of Orain (
https://orain.org), a new
non-profit, ad-free wiki farm. I've administrated several wiki farms
over the past few years. I've been publishing our configuration and
tools on GitHub (
https://github.com/orain), and I plan to improve
what's already there in the near future. I'm about to leave on
vacation for about 10 days, but after that, I plan to put together
some documentation regarding the best practices in wiki farm
administration.
On 8/16/13 10:22 AM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
We currently have just over 35 subscribers. I figure
it is time
for me to say something.
First of all, thanks for subscribing to the list.
This list started with a conversation that began at Wikimania.
When Markus Glaser and I held a MediaWiki meetup one of the
recurring themes was Wikifarms.
It seems that farms are relatively common. WikiApiary lists around
100 farms that have just two wikis all the way up to Wikki's
2000+. (WikiApiary is just starting out, so I'll forgive them that
they miss Wikia's thousands.)
Despite the wide use of farms, there doesn't seem to be a
"standard" way of setting one up. So I've created
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/52721 ("Create a Wikifarm profile
for MediaWiki-Vagrant") that will help us capture the "best
practices" way of setting up a wiki farm.
Of course, it would help to have some best practices first. My
observation -- please correct me if I'm wrong -- is that there we
seem to create MediaWiki ghettos. Developers and administrators in
the Wikia ghetto don't communicate (much) with their counterparts
in the Wikimedia ghetto or the Semantic MediaWiki ghetto.
So, best practices. MediaWiki-Vagrant and maybe the WikiFarm
extension (does anyone use it?).
Maybe we can start the discussion by describing how we set up wikis
on our farms?
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