On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 28 February 2010 22:17, Brian J Mingus <brian.min...@colorado.edu> > wrote: > > I run a mediawiki farm with mediawiki trunk installed. I've got the > process > > of setting up new wikis scripted and can set one up in 30 seconds. If you > > just need a place to install a wiki you should be able to find one no > > problem. Also, WMF has a whack of servers. You should have absolutely no > > problem getting one in short order. Particularly for a "high priority" > > project. My 2 cents. > > The problem isn't getting a wiki running, it's getting a wiki running > in a way comparable to English Wikipedia, which is far from a default > Mediawiki install. Given that these are the people that actually keep > the enwiki servers running, I wouldn't expect it to take them this > long, though... > > Setting up cur en has been surprisingly easy in the past, particularly with the advent of that fast C->mysql dump importer. And many people can afford those cheap dell quad core nehalem i7 cpus "desktops". But honestly I don't see why it can't just be thrown up on any old apache by an experienced wmf admin in a matter of minutes, using the live data but not attached to squid, memcached etc.. Honestly, how much load are we going to subject this thing to right away? _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
