Hi,
Am 08.01.2013 17:59, schrieb Calvin W.F. Siu:
As discussion with Manuel tonight about the whole wikimania system, he addressed that getting our domain (registration.wikimedia.hk and scholarship.wikimedia.hk) to use in every year's wikimania system because wikimania team in every year need to buy the SSL certificate for the systems, this action can cost effectively for every wikimania team to reduce the cost to buy SSL certificate and avoid the error from browser. Of course, we can claim the cost of buying certificate from WMCH/foundation. Is it possible to do that?
my suggestion was that we get a subdomain like "ssl.wikimania.org" pointing to 195.114.98.120 (server of WMCH where the Wikimania Tools are available hosted since 2010).
We could then implement the registration and scholarship portals on * https://ssl.wikimania.org/registration and * https://ssl.wikimania.org/scholarship
We would need a certificate for ssl.wikimania.org, though, which needs to be issued by the WMF as they are the owner of "wikimania.org".
Otherwise we would be able to register a new domain for this purpose which is owned by WMCH, so we can do the same as above but buy the SSL certificates by ourselves.
Someone from Wikitch-L who can help us with that?
Thanks,
Manuel
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Manuel Schneider manuel.schneider@wikimedia.ch wrote:
We would need a certificate for ssl.wikimania.org, though, which needs to be issued by the WMF as they are the owner of "wikimania.org".
wikimania.org is not actually owned by the Wikimedia Foundation. It has been owned by someone else for a long time. RobH looked into the Foundation acquiring it back in 2011, but unfortunately they turned it down. I'm pretty sure they are not interested in transferring it.
They might have changed their minds, but the Foundation does not control the domain as of now. All that's there is a redirect, so we can't actually use it for anything other than that.
-- Casey Brown (Cbrown1023) caseybrown.org
Op 8-1-2013 21:46, Manuel Schneider schreef:
my suggestion was that we get a subdomain like "ssl.wikimania.org" pointing to 195.114.98.120 (server of WMCH where the Wikimania Tools are available hosted since 2010).
Will you be able to handle the load? I remember some issues in September.
Maarten
Am 12.01.2013 13:07, schrieb Maarten Dammers:
Op 8-1-2013 21:46, Manuel Schneider schreef:
my suggestion was that we get a subdomain like "ssl.wikimania.org" pointing to 195.114.98.120 (server of WMCH where the Wikimania Tools are available hosted since 2010).
Will you be able to handle the load? I remember some issues in September.
the load will be much smaller than on WLM website. We also handled registration and scholarship applications in 2011 with no issues.
Apart from that we are upgrading hardware anyway and I have done some optimizations on the servers as well. Until the end of 2012 I was just a volunteer with limited ressources, now things changed.
/Manuel
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