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

[John Vandenberg]

How much do we expect to be paying to Wordpress each year for this service?

John Vandenberg.
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On Sep 6, 2013 8:23 AM, "Erik Moeller" <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Leslie Carr <lcarr at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Exactly. Just because we have people who have no trouble maintaining a
> WordPress install doesn't mean we should. Time is always limited, and
> we have to prioritize. Working with a reputable third party that also
> drives development of the same open source software seems like a
> perfectly reasonable choice to me in this instance. And BTW - we do
> get situations where the blog gets a huge spike of traffic every once
> in a while, e.g. during the SOPA/PIPA protest, so hosting it ourselves
> is not as effortless as it may seem, without even accounting for
> customization requests from our communications team, etc.
>
> Erik
> --
> Erik Möller
> VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
>
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