On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Brion Vibber bvibber@wikimedia.org wrote:
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?
I have needed such a thing for wikis for small non-profits/library associations that I've been involved with, where I didn't want to host it myself (because I didn't want to take personal responsibility for the site of an organization that I might not stay involved with, and because I don't really have the chops to deal with security and spam issues); but also did not have a good hosting option with a larger organization or library, which I find are often not very familiar with mediawiki (e.g. I've been trying to get our library systems dept. to install some basic extensions for our internal mediawiki for a couple years now).
There's not a lot of money in that particular use case, unfortunately, but I imagine I'm not alone in that need either.
-- phoebe