On 10/01/2013 07:24 PM, Tim Starling wrote: > On 02/10/13 01:19, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: >> More than anything, I would like some real data from non-WMF users of >> MW. > > You could have the installer send environment details to mediawiki.org > for aggregation.
As you are probably aware, I *do* have an RFC for this[1]. But now we have REAL data on the sorts of hosting people use to run their wikis. Yesterday, I went to Jamie of WikiApiary and talked to him about ways to get this sort of data from his bot. The first idea I had was the reverse DNS for the IP that hosts a whiki. Jamie added [[Property:Has IP address]] and [[Property:Has reverse lookup]] [2] to his data set and used it to come up with a preliminary list of hosting providers[3]. Dreamhost is the overwhelming favorite. There are, of course, problems with his data. For example, we're still missing a *lot* of wikis, but I'm working on addressing this and other problems. Mark. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Opt-in_site_registration_during_installation [2] http://wikiapiary.com/wiki/WikiApiary_talk:Operations/2013/October#New_Property:Has_reverse_lookup [3] http://wikiapiary.com/wiki/User:Thingles/Hosting_providers _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
