-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA384 Hi,
I'm Kudu, the co-founder of Orain (https://orain.org), a new non-profit wiki farm. Although it's pretty new and constantly changing, I think it's pretty similar to what many of you might have had in mind: community-led, free, ad-free and technologically advanced (MW 1.22wmf22, CDN, SSL/TLS, and more to come). We're also taking an open approach by developing our software openly as free software, including our server configuration (Ansible playbook): https://github.com/Orain Please note that our code is a work in progress. I think our organization would be a good fit to potentially be officially supported by MediaWiki, since, as a non-profit, we invest all our donations into our servers. We currently cater to two types of wikis: public wikis (open, CC-licensed) and certain private wikis. The only type of private wikis we're currently accepting are those that in some way benefit society or the advancement of education, e.g. a wiki request we got recently for a philosophy collaboration project between teachers. They could also be non-profits, libraries, etc. In the future, we will consider expanding to the wikis that don't fit into those categories, such as personal wikis, company wikis, etc. Those may be ad-supported or paid for a small fee. Those could also include custom SSO integration, etc. Feel free to drop by our IRC channel (#orain on freenode) or reply to this message if you have any questions or feedback. :) Regards, - -Kudu. On 10/14/13 10:41 PM, Quim Gil 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 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 > > > > 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. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.20 (Darwin) iQIcBAEBCQAGBQJSZbB4AAoJEMG+LL161/I7PmkP/jSeO1csxFT0a40I0O1mPXOt BtY7j1BvR3cChQbBmRqXacyzWORz/KzgrCjnGSafQnIwCN5hEGyyS+l7y69cfv4p ma69b3JLAPCRpSXpWM/H6RxOq7HlaQ8dJeXf123GCF8q4DIUxasTdv6J6G8/+q2y KQPqtNvjbEn0egew0L/6y5y0/Y+cYAW2v8Dfk3SaMwCTD5FDKNDTPWkDshqeh67I z6mFgiGFwpjN5euhFrv0+JXY2luT+I25IDSFciR5oCMS8OTsllhhnsjK190q8aTy O0zfiLNeEVnax3yIQ4RcZ30z99k+h/dhEFFMfPEohLSP12qdFOCUFDOOgRJJUNgN w5d3jdVnitqPu4xmIS1s15pGgYHFHTR3oNhJL7Qpj9UK1L2ZiQydWT2JuN+KnI4X 6Sc8yCxE6rZTufU3kS7i3+afIeknit4u74E/vkhk6WlwWeeWFNcWY8DCKX9GHupZ QMbH9Q7Mqlf/vWv/JobCBzkmc41+8YPn0QKoIlJpwiKpy1O8leubgIKQQrB/isV9 zjA3gBKBVgyv/o3Uw3Cc0Ml2hsio9c+O996NwQpeV8qYrPAE5Fw0BcKpkhAGRi1c t8o+LkFow8mL59RV2XpYJtAAWprfj1/I7DyeDoFtqDp2piXNr2Qza4TFUa5jmI/9 IZnsG1Na8qyG5cinpTFj =BOgL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
