I would certainly be very pleased to mentor people interested in installing WikiTrust on Wikimedia Labs.
Luca On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Aaron Halfaker <[email protected]>wrote: > I just want to suggest that, if you are looking for good cloud hosting for > WikiTrust, Wikimedia Labs[1] seems to have been built for it. > > This may be a good direction for you to go or a good direction for whoever > picks up the WikiTrust torch. > > -Aaron > > 1. https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page > > > On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Luca de Alfaro <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Apologies for the pun title, but the message is this: I will no longer >> be maintaining the WikiTrust installation at UCSC. If anyone is interested >> in the data provided by WikiTrust, I would be happy to mentor them in >> installing WikiTrust at their institution, or on their servers. >> >> Keeping WikiTrust running at UCSC has been time consuming. At UCSC, we >> have very frequent power interruptions, as well as disruptions of various >> kinds resulting from changes in our hosting space. The hardware is also >> close to the end of life (indeed, some drives in the RAID for the German >> Wikipedia have failed). >> >> I would have loved to give WikiTrust a stable home in the cloud; >> something like Google Appengine would be ideal. However, this would cost >> several thousand dollars per month; the cloud is still expensive for >> intensive computation. >> >> This is a somewhat sad decision for me, but I have only so much time and >> energy, and I need to put the energy in new research directions. Again, if >> others are interested in the data WikiTrust produces, I would be happy to >> mentor them through an installation. >> >> Luca de Alfaro >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> >> >
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