On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Brian <Brian.Mingus(a)colorado.edu> wrote:
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
On 28 February 2010 22:17, Brian J Mingus
<Brian.Mingus(a)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.