Hi Tim, Thank you very much for your insights and the links. We will start looking into MediaWiki-Vagrant shortly. :-)
Best, John Be 2016-11-27 15:10 GMT+01:00 Tim Landscheidt <[email protected]>: > John Andersson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > At Wikimedia Sverige we are working on the development of a new extension > > called Wikispeech[1]. The aim is that Wikispeech will increase > > accessibility to the information in Wikipedias articles for all the > > millions of people that for different reasons has a hard time reading. > > > This is the first extension we are developing, and we have now reached a > > point where it would be great to have a dev wiki installed on Labs that > we > > can experiment on. Is this something anyone could help us with? > > > Also, we are wondering if it is possible to put up services on Labs? We > > would ideally like to have a TTS server there. Is that doable? > > > […] > > AFAICT it is now customary to develop MediaWiki extensions > with MediaWiki-Vagrant. I see that you already have a bare > class role::wikispeech. Usually, you would now add code to > set up and launch any necessary servers, etc. in this class, > so that not only other developers have the same environment, > but this environment can be replicated in Labs by running > MediaWiki-Vagrant there > (cf. https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:MediaWiki-Vagrant_in_Labs). > Then the wiki on this MediaWiki-Vagrant instance can easily > be made publicly accessible. > > To start, you should request a new Labs project for Wiki- > speech > (cf. https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Getting_Started# > Create_Projects), > learn (by doing :-)) how to set up a MediaWiki-Vagrant in- > stance and make it publicly accessible, but safe from spam- > mers, and then enhance role::wikispeech so that it sets up > the TTS server, etc. The latter task can be daunting for > developers new to Puppet, but the beauty of MediaWiki-Va- > grant is that other, more experienced developers can help > because they can easily set up the same environment as you. > > Tim > > > _______________________________________________ > Labs-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l > -- John - - - - John Andersson Wikimedia Sverige Project Manager Phone: +46(0)73-3965189 Email: [email protected] <[email protected]> Skype: johnandersson86 Visiting address: Hantverkargatan 21 2tr, 112 21 Stockholm Be sure to follow us on Twitter at @WikimediaSE <https://twitter.com/WikimediaSE> Would you like to support free knowledge and Wikipedia? Please consider if you, or your organization, would like to become a member <https://donera.wikimedia.se/node/6> of Wikimedia Sverige!
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