[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia blog moving to WordPress.com

[K. Peachey]

On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 4:46 AM, Leslie Carr <lcarr at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> I can chime in as a tech operations person (in my official capacity).
>  Currently the blog is in a partially maintained by Operations state.  In
> ops, we have a few concerns - #1 is security (exemplified by our recent
> security incident) of having a wordpress instance in our production
> environment.  #2 is support of the blog from a technical standpoint.  We
> are currently all oversubscribed with trying to keep the production sites
> up and speedy.  The blog is low priority for us compared to the wiki's, and
> therefore is often neglected.  When we hire about 5 more ops people, it may
> be more sustainable, but right now, it's not - so it would actually be a
> net positive for the Operations team to move the blog onto a dedicated
> third party, and will also hopefully prevent any future security incidents.
>
> Leslie


That is a argument for changing the blogging tool/platform, Not changing to
non self-hosted environment.