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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-- brion
Absolutely. I'm trying to run Wikinfo.co on a host that doesn't have up to date infrastructure, I may succeed yet, but trying to get Lua to work involves heroics I despise (software is not fun for me, even if it is to you). I suspect most of these VPS's are similar, packages of rather old software that work but can't be easily updated or modified. I can run the inside of a wiki, but begging for support, or paying for it, or trying to update installations that were not meant to be updated could be avoided by a host that was built with the latest versions and features of MediaWiki supported. For a minor example Tidy could come installed. People from this group could even anticipate requirements of future versions.
Fred