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

[Gerard Meijssen]

 Hoi,
The most relevant thing is the quality of the service provided. Add to this
the limited resources the WMF has. The cost is probably less than what our
total cost of ownership would be. It is also not wise to always try to
second guess the people who have the responsibility to make these decisions.
Thanks,
      GerardM


On 9 September 2013 11:16, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:

> How much do we expect to be paying to Wordpress each year for this service?
>
> John Vandenberg.
> sent from Galaxy Note
> 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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