[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia.in movement to Wikimedia servers?

CherianTinu Abraham tinucherian at gmail.com
Sat Feb 19 04:58:07 UTC 2011


Is there someone who could help to speed up this ?

Regards
Tinu Cherian

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:23 PM, CherianTinu Abraham
<tinucherian at gmail.com>wrote:

> FYI
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27089
>
> <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27089>Regards
> Tinu Cherian
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Jyothis Edathoot <je at jyothis.net> wrote:
>
>> Tinu,
>>
>> That would work, but depends upon how you wish to move (completely managed
>> Vs just availing space and bandwidth, but server managed by chapter) to the
>> foundation servers.  if chapter staff is going manage the installation (and
>> not foundation), someone still needs to set it up correctly.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jyothis.
>>
>> http://www.Jyothis.net
>>
>> http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis
>> I am the first customer of http://www.netdotnet.com
>>
>> woods are lovely dark and deep,
>> but i have promises to keep and
>> miles to go before i sleep and
>> lines to go before I press sleep
>>
>> completion date = (start date + ((estimated effort x 3.1415926) /
>> resources) + ((total coffee breaks x 0.25) / 24)) + Effort in meetings
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:00 AM, CherianTinu Abraham <
>> tinucherian at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jyothis,
>>>               AFAIK, this MW is privately hosted by a chapter exec com
>>> member on his personal webhosting, as of now. Enabling file uploading is
>>> costlier, hence probably.
>>>               My suggestion is to move it to the Wikimedia servers ( like
>>> some other chapters), so that we needn't worry of server space, bandwidth &
>>> security ( at least until the chapter is rich enough to do so) ...
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Tinu Cherian
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Jyothis Edathoot <je at jyothis.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> What is the problem in file uploads? Not enabled in LocalSettings.php
>>>> again?
>>>>
>>>> Who ever managing this MW installation might want to spend some time
>>>> reading the Manual for MW. Here is how you enable<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuring_file_uploads> File
>>>> uploads. At the minimum, please read thru the LocalSettings.php to see what
>>>> useful items can be enabled / ask others in mailing lists / IRC / use
>>>> google<http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=mediawiki+enable+file+upload>
>>>> .
>>>>
>>>> *## To enable image uploads, make sure the 'images' directory*
>>>> *## is writable, then set this to true:*
>>>> *$wgEnableUploads       = true;*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Jyothis.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.Jyothis.net
>>>>
>>>> http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis
>>>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis
>>>> I am the first customer of http://www.netdotnet.com
>>>>
>>>> woods are lovely dark and deep,
>>>> but i have promises to keep and
>>>> miles to go before i sleep and
>>>> lines to go before I press sleep
>>>>
>>>> completion date = (start date + ((estimated effort x 3.1415926) /
>>>> resources) + ((total coffee breaks x 0.25) / 24)) + Effort in meetings
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 5:43 AM, Shiju Alex <shijualexonline at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Enabling the use of images on Commons is just a small configuration
>>>>>> away. I am sure and know that there are competent people who can help you
>>>>>> with that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Enabling Commons images for a MediaWiki installation is very simple. I
>>>>> thought many in the list know about this. Malayalam wikimedians have
>>>>> implemented this feature in their community website (
>>>>> http://mlwiki.in/wiki/) sometime back.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> To enable commons in our private wiki, just add the below code in the
>>>>> *LocalSettings.php* file
>>>>>
>>>>> *$wgUseInstantCommons = true; *
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> This feature is called *InstantCommons*, and many of us are using it.
>>>>> See more details at
>>>>>
>>>>>    -
>>>>>    http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia#InstantCommons
>>>>>    - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/InstantCommons
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Gerard Meijssen <
>>>>> gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hoi,
>>>>>> Enabling the use of images on Commons is just a small configuration
>>>>>> away. I am sure and know that there are competent people who can help you
>>>>>> with that.
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>       GerardM
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 1 February 2011 07:59, BalaSundaraRaman <sundarbecse at yahoo.com>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thank you, Sue.
>>>>>>> Once the technical issue of file upload (pointed out by Tinu) is
>>>>>>> resolved by
>>>>>>> moving to Wikimedia servers, we'll certainly add mugshots of the EC
>>>>>>> members.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - Sundar
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a
>>>>>>> medium for
>>>>>>> the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
>>>>>>> - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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