Re: [MediaWiki-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Officially supported MediaWiki hosting service?

-- With best regards from Ukraine, Andre Skype: Francophile My blog: http://oire.org/menelion (mostly in Russian) Twitter: http://twitter.com/m_elensule Facebook: http://facebook.com/menelion ------------ Original message ------------ From: Ed Swing Ed.Swing@sas.com To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Date created: , 3:21:09 AM Subject: [MediaWiki-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Officially supported MediaWiki hosting service? There is always Wikia. They're a few versions behind, but host a TON of wikis already. You can even have them enable various extensions (like Semantic Bundle). ________________________________________ From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] on behalf of Mlpearc [mlpearc@everythingfoodanddrink.org] Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2013 7:13 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Officially supported MediaWiki hosting service? This would be interesting for my little farm, I have the time to put into it but not the needed "know how" to fix issues, install some extensions etc, but as Wjhonson states it would have to be adorable to those users. * Mlpearc* Founder Everything Food & Drink.org everythingfoodanddrink.orghttp://www.everythingfoodanddrink.org/w/index.php/Main_Page Phone: 760-718-1290 On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Nikolas Everett neverett@wikimedia.orgwrote: > Atlassian sells a Confluence in the cloud at a per seat cost. > VisualEditor would make MediaWiki a decent competitor from the > perspective of the corporate types I've seen involved in such > purchasing decisions. I'm not sure how much traction it'd have but > there is something to say for MediaWiki being the wiki that everyone > is used to. > > Nik > > On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Andre Polykanine andre@oire.org wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Agreed with Brion completely. > > Such hosting would be an extremely useful thing, but it should have no > > ads (at least as a payed option), be able to redirect to a custom > > domain, and have all the things Brion mentioned. I would pay for it, I > > think. > > > > > > > > -- > > With best regards from Ukraine, > > Andre > > Skype: Francophile > > My blog: http://oire.org/menelion (mostly in Russian) > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/m_elensule > > Facebook: http://facebook.com/menelion > > > > ------------ Original message ------------ > > From: David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com > > To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list > > Date created: , 9:13:26 PM > > Subject: [MediaWiki-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Officially supported MediaWiki > hosting service? > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Brion Vibber bvibber@wikimedia.org > > Date: 1 October 2013 19:11 > > Subject: [Wikitech-l] Officially supported MediaWiki hosting service? > > To: Wikimedia-tech list wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > > > > Question for the group: > > > > Would an officially supported general-purpose MediaWiki hosting service > be > > useful to people who would like to run wikis, but don't have the time, > > expertise, or resources to maintain their own installation? > > > > If so, what can we (as interested parties in MediaWiki development and > use) > > do to make this happen? > > > > > > [Please do not consider the existence of this email to imply that only > > regular posters on wikitech-l are allowed to read, comment on, or give > > opinions in this matter -- on the contrary, wider input is being > requested. > > Please forward this question to anyone to whom it may be of interest. If > > you would like to get more input from other people, please feel free to > > contact them on your own, with or without a forward of this mail, and to > > make follow-up posts or comments as you need or want to. Please feel free > > to modify the question, the idea, the proposal, or make comments or > > additions. Be bold and get involved!] > > > > -- brion > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > > MediaWiki-l mailing list > > MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > MediaWiki-l mailing list > > MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l