We could also try convincing the semi-decent shared hosts like Dreamhost and Linode to run a service of their own for their customers.
That reminds me, I had an idea lying around somewhere about making it possible for things like shared hosts to offer configuration hints to the installer. ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/] On 2015-01-28 12:08 AM, Petr Bena wrote: > So if all wikis on world would use this central parsoid, I wouldn't > like to see that huge outage when the parsoid server breaks :P > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) > <[email protected]> wrote: >> The only true precedent we have here is the public Collection server run by >> PediaPress, which is a wonderful service used by several hundreds wikis for >> years. It ensures a comparatively smooth installation of the Collection >> extension even for the most niche formats. >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection#Generating_PDFs.2C_OpenDocument-_.26_DocBook-Exports >> >> One could perhaps also consider DNSBL services by SpamHaus and others. >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam#DNSBL But I don't know >> how many are using them and they're not really effective, so we don't really >> have a service comparable to Akismet. The "Antispam" extension claims to be >> one, but at the moment it's used by 3 wikis only. >> >> Nemo >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
