I think Brion should have expressed some distinction between Wiki services (like Wikia), and hosting services that provide everything for MediaWiki to run smoothly, incl. caching software and other fancy stuff.
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Jay Ashworth <[email protected]> wrote: > Something other than Wikia, then? > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Brion Vibber" <[email protected]> > > To: "Wikimedia-tech list" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Tuesday, October 1, 2013 2:11:16 PM > > Subject: [Wikitech-l] Officially supported MediaWiki hosting service? > > Question for the group: > > > > Would an officially supported general-purpose MediaWiki hosting > > service be > > useful to people who would like to run wikis, but don't have the time, > > expertise, or resources to maintain their own installation? > > > > If so, what can we (as interested parties in MediaWiki development and > > use) > > do to make this happen? > > > > > > [Please do not consider the existence of this email to imply that only > > regular posters on wikitech-l are allowed to read, comment on, or give > > opinions in this matter -- on the contrary, wider input is being > > requested. > > Please forward this question to anyone to whom it may be of interest. > > If > > you would like to get more input from other people, please feel free > > to > > contact them on your own, with or without a forward of this mail, and > > to > > make follow-up posts or comments as you need or want to. Please feel > > free > > to modify the question, the idea, the proposal, or make comments or > > additions. Be bold and get involved!] > > > > -- brion > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > -- > Jay R. Ashworth Baylink > [email protected] > Designer The Things I Think RFC > 2100 > Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land > Rover DII > St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 > 1274 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- З павагай, Павел Селіцкас/Pavel Selitskas Wizardist @ Wikimedia projects _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
