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. > Other ideas for community engagement: * Find out what version of MediaWiki each of these hosts is offering and nag the ones that lag behind to upgrade. * Find out which extensions (and which versions) each host is offering and lobby for the inclusion of new extensions. * Find out whether the management interface provided by the host describes MediaWiki in a manner that is compelling and accurate, and which concisely articulates MediaWiki's positioning relative to other wiki and content-management systems. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
