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Oggetto: [Xmldatadumps-l] Your comments needed (long term dumps rewrite?)
Data: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 12:30:01 +0200
Mittente: Ariel Glenn WMF <ariel(a)wikimedia.org>
A: Xmldatadumps-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
The MediaWiki Core team has opened a discussion about getting more
involved in and maybe redoing the dumps infrastructure. A good starting
point is to understand how folks use the dumps already or want to use
them but can't, and some questions about that are listed here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_MediaWiki_Core_Team/Backlog/Improv…
I've added some notes but please go weigh in. Don't be shy about what
you do/what you need, this is the time to get it all on the table.
Ariel
On 01/17/2015 03:54 PM, Gregory Varnum wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Please join the Affiliations Committee in congratulating the MediaWiki
> Farmers User Group on their official approval as a Wikimedia User Group:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/MediaWik…
Thank you for all your help in the process!
> The MediaWiki Farmers User Group is "A user group of third-party developers
> who work on wiki farms. Our mission is to improve and standardize the way
> MediaWiki wiki farms are setup and run."
>
> Anyone interested in more information about the group can visit:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:MediaWiki_Farmers_user_group
We will be having our first meeting[1] at the developer summit, and will
post meeting minutes on-wiki for those who aren't able to attend.
We'll also have an IRC meeting sometime after the summit, specifics
still to be determined.
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87240
-- Legoktm
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Oggetto: [Wikimedia-l] Congratulations to MediaWiki Farmers User Group
for being approved as a Wikimedia User Group
Data: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 18:54:37 -0500
Mittente: Gregory Varnum
Greetings,
Please join the Affiliations Committee in congratulating the MediaWiki
Farmers User Group on their official approval as a Wikimedia User Group:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/MediaWik…
The MediaWiki Farmers User Group is "A user group of third-party developers
who work on wiki farms. Our mission is to improve and standardize the way
MediaWiki wiki farms are setup and run."
Anyone interested in more information about the group can visit:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:MediaWiki_Farmers_user_group
Again - congratulations on the recognition and best wishes for the group's
future work!
-greg aka varnent
Vice Chair, Wikimedia Affiliations Committee
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Hi everyone,
I don't know how many people are actually subscribed to this list, or if
this will make much of a difference, but I'm one of the founders of Orain,
a wikifarm. We're nonprofit, open source, and ad-free.
We just recently launched an Indiegogo campaign to help stabilize our
resources and stay online, while remaining ad-free and nonprofit. Our
campaign is doing fairly well, we're at 35% of our goal, but I was hoping
that someone, anyone really, in this list could donate? Even if it's just a
dollar, it pushes us that much closer to our goal.
Of course, if you have any questions I'd love to answer them.
The campaign is here: http://igg.me/at/orain
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Thank You,
Dusti Muniz
User:Dusti on the English Wikipedia
At SMWCon last week, Ms. Cicalese introduced the work that they've done
at MITRE to set up a farm of MediaWiki installations that they manage
for multiple stakeholders.
(She also found a problem -- CVE-2014-2853 -- that resulted in a new
release of MediaWiki.)
I told her about this mailing list and asked her to describe the work
she and those she works with at MITRE have done to support their farm.
Hopefully, this work will be helpful to others here.
Mark.
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Mark A. Hershberger
NicheWork LLC
717-271-1084
Ms. Cicalese introduced the work that they've done at MITRE to set up a
farm of MediaWiki installations that they manage for multiple
stakeholders.
(She also found a problem -- CVE-2014-2853 -- that resulted in a new
release of MediaWiki.)
I told her about this mailing list and asked her to describe the work
she and those she works with at MITRE have done to support their farm.
Hopefully, this work will be helpful to others here.
--
Mark A. Hershberger
NicheWork LLC
717-271-1084
Life isn't slow on a farm, but this list needs a kick.
To that end, I've started a project page on MediaWiki.org:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:WikiFarm
Have a look and see what needs to be filled out.
With that said, I really want to dig into MediaWiki's configuration
system[1]. Putting the configuration in the DB (with a wiki column
acting as the key so farming would be easier) really seems to be the
right thing to do. Larger users (like Wikimedia) would want to use CDBS
or something snappy like that, but I'd like to start out with a
DB-backed config.
I haven't had time to really do anything with any of this, but I did
want to check in with you all to see if there was any news.
[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.wikifarm/11
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Mark A. Hershberger
NicheWork LLC
717-271-1084
Question for the wikifarmers, how do you manage dumps of your wikis?
(Because you do dump public, free content wikis; don't you.)
I saw today Wikia's code (they do a partial on-demand dumping of
revisions and nothing else as of now):
<https://github.com/Wikia/app/tree/dev/extensions/wikia/WikiFactory/Dumps>
Nemo