> MediaWiki exposes the right set of interfaces for deep integration with configuration management and cloud provisioning platforms, and ensuring that these interfaces are intuitive and well-documented.
Not well documented yet; but I'll put in a shameless plug that I have a patch [1] that will expose the git treeish information of extensions via the API if anyone wants to review :D [1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/65299/ ~Matt Walker Wikimedia Foundation Fundraising Technology Team On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Ori Livneh <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Quim Gil <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 10/01/2013 11:11 AM, Brion Vibber wrote: > > > >> 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? > >> > > > > I'd say agree the best approach first with folks like > > https://www.mediawiki.org/**wiki/Hosting_services< > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hosting_services> > > > > There are many small companies trying to make a living out of (among > other > > things) MediaWiki hosting and expertise. If we are missing players more > > involved with the community then we could start knocking those doors > rather > > than triying to build an own house and call it "official". > > > > Can I just say: they're all dinky and antiquated and none of them come > close to offering the kind of deployment and configuration experience that > I expect a modern platform to have. > > I don't like this "every time you have a new idea, God kills a Community > member" approach. It'd be more productive to think about the role the > Foundation could play in ensuring that MediaWiki exposes the right set of > interfaces for deep integration with configuration management and cloud > provisioning platforms, and ensuring that these interfaces are intuitive > and well-documented. This might actually spur some innovation. > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
