Glad to hear you like it! :)

On 15 October 2013 04:41, Quim Gil <q...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> On 10/02/2013 06:33 PM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
>
>> Did you see the Orain wikifarm? https://meta.orain.org/
>>
>
> No, I hadn't. But I followed your advice, I checked it out, tested the
> service with a wiki that some friends wanted to create and got to know the
> main contributors. Thank you! It's a very interesting community project run
> by wikipedians that love MediaWiki.
>
> In fact I find it has some relation to this discussion and the
> possibilities suggested by Brion, Ori, Ryan, Mark... You are talking about
> an affordable Turbo service for power users and they are providing a free
> Diesel service for anybody.
>
> But no just any diesel, check
>
> https://meta.orain.org/wiki/**Special:Version<https://meta.orain.org/wiki/Special:Version>
> MediaWiki 1.22wmf16, MariaDB, Scribunto and more if you ask for it.
>
> and see also their projects to maintain their farm at
> https://github.com/Orain
> https://github.com/Orain/**ansible-playbook/blob/master/**
> roles/mediawiki/tasks/main.yml<https://github.com/Orain/ansible-playbook/blob/master/roles/mediawiki/tasks/main.yml>
>
> These people are clearly aligned with what this community is developing.
> They also seem to be having a similar vision about maintaining instances
> pulling from repositories, etc. If some of you think they could improve
> their approach I'm sure they would be happy to listen and discuss.
>
> Now I imagine the combination of this free-for-all service with the
> affordable DIY setup you were describing and I see a great service for the
> community, yes.
>
> Post Disclaimer: today I donated to Orain.org to support the initiative.
> An hour later they convinced me to move my pet project there. I wasn't
> amused about having to update core and extensions when MW 1.22 was out. Now
> my site is running basically the latest you can find out of the Wikimedia
> servers. And I will concentrate on my users and content. Happy.
>
>
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