Would be a problem to install the "Widgets" media wiki extension?

On 14/05/2010 7:18 AM, "Daniel Kinzler" <daniel@brightbyte.de> wrote:

Hi Gerald, hi Cormac, hi list

To clarify my position in this: I'm Wikimedia germany's tech guy, and your main
contact for the sandbox server. Anything involving policy or money will have to
be cleared by our ED, Pavel Richter. At the moment I'm just repeating what I had
cleared with him before.


Gerald A wrote:
> Now, it's been a few months since this last was discussed. Are there any
> restr...

It doesn't matter where the server is located. WMDE offers to reimburse the
person paying for the server. We will not assume any responsibility for its
operation, or the projects running on it, or the content on the machine.

I guess some rather exotic locations would be a bit tricky, slow or expensive
for transferring money. Other than that, I see no limits.


> a) Wiki Campus Radio, and experiments with Voice and Voice Products. I was
> involved in a number...

The money question is, as always: how does wikiversity (or any wikimedia
project) benefit from this project? And how does the project benefit from the
sandbox server?


> As for b), would a "formal report" be required, or would a summary (maybe
> with more details) su...

Monthly would be good. No big deal if you miss a month every now and then.
Doesn't need to be formal, just an informative sentence or two. We just want to
know what's happening.


> Now we have one project listed. I have others in mind, but I'd like to see
> this one launched be...

No, please add all projects you are willing to take care of. It doesn't make
sense to rent a server for a single project anyway.


Cormac asked:

> I would guess that the person renting the server doesn't necessarily need to
> be involved in the ...

I would like to have a dedicated contact person for the sandbox server. This
person should take care that WMDE gets a monthly report about which projects are
active on the server, which are idle or have died, etc. A sentence or two per
project is sufficient. Who writes the report, how it is compiled, I don't care,
I just don#t want to have to deal with 6 people every month about reporting.

For practical reasons, it would probably be handy if my context person was also
the person renting the server - but this is not absolutely neccessary.

HTH

daniel


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