I think Brion should have expressed some distinction between Wiki services (like Wikia), and hosting services that provide everything for MediaWiki to run smoothly, incl. caching software and other fancy stuff.
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Jay Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
Something other than Wikia, then?
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From: "Brion Vibber" bvibber@wikimedia.org To: "Wikimedia-tech list" wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, October 1, 2013 2:11:16 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] Officially supported MediaWiki hosting service? 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?
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