On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Brian <brian.min...@colorado.edu> wrote:
> > > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Thomas Dalton > <thomas.dal...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On 28 February 2010 22:17, Brian J Mingus <brian.min...@colorado.edu> >> wrote: >> > I run a mediawiki farm with mediawiki trunk installed. I've got the >> process >> > of setting up new wikis scripted and can set one up in 30 seconds. If >> you >> > just need a place to install a wiki you should be able to find one no >> > problem. Also, WMF has a whack of servers. You should have absolutely no >> > problem getting one in short order. Particularly for a "high priority" >> > project. My 2 cents. >> >> The problem isn't getting a wiki running, it's getting a wiki running >> in a way comparable to English Wikipedia, which is far from a default >> Mediawiki install. Given that these are the people that actually keep >> the enwiki servers running, I wouldn't expect it to take them this >> long, though... >> >> > Setting up cur en has been surprisingly easy in the past, particularly with > the advent of that fast C->mysql dump importer. And many people can afford > those cheap dell quad core nehalem i7 cpus "desktops". > > But honestly I don't see why it can't just be thrown up on any old apache > by an experienced wmf admin in a matter of minutes, using the live data but > not attached to squid, memcached etc.. Honestly, how much load are we going > to subject this thing to right away? > > I should add - if the Toolserver is still replicating mysql that would be the perfect place for this. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
