On 11/20/12, tj <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/20/2012 12:06, jan iversen wrote: >> Hi. >> >> Rob: >> What qualification would a Wiki maintainer need ? I used to maintain our >> business sites, which were PHP and AJAX based, with MySql behind, it that >> would fit, it is a job which I would volunteer for. > > Jan, > > A Wiki maintainer needs PHP and MySQL knowledge, and root access to the > wiki system (to be granted by Infra; JIRA ticket?). Most of the work is > simply making changes to the parameter file, LocalSettings.php. However, > there is long-range work, too: preparing for upgrades, and some > short-term MySQL stuff. > > I will collect all the various maintenance items on a wiki page, > probably called "Pending Maintenance". If that doesn't scare you off, > your help will be greatly appreciated; Infra expects the AOO project to > do this level of maintenance ourselves, and it is quite beyond me. Let > me know. > > /tj/
I have mantained Mediawiki and other webapps in the past, one of the biggest challenges is the time resource on researching the right solution. From other projects, I think this is an automated attack on most of the mediawiki installations. I think the mantainer needs to be commited to the mediawiki project and read their security briefings and take tasks in accordance. However like you mention in the past, upgrading the Mediawiki site is non-trivial and I think we do need a testing server and be able to tdo rollbacks as needed and maybe provide extra securities to the backend. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=__open__&product=MediaWiki&content=spam Inedependent related bulletings include: MySQL: http://www.auscert.org.au/render.html?it=16590 -- Alexandro Colorado PPMC Apache OpenOffice http://es.openoffice.org
