We could also try convincing the semi-decent shared hosts like Dreamhost and Linode to run a service of their own for their customers.
That reminds me, I had an idea lying around somewhere about making it possible for things like shared hosts to offer configuration hints to the installer.
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/]
On 2015-01-28 12:08 AM, Petr Bena wrote:
So if all wikis on world would use this central parsoid, I wouldn't like to see that huge outage when the parsoid server breaks :P
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
The only true precedent we have here is the public Collection server run by PediaPress, which is a wonderful service used by several hundreds wikis for years. It ensures a comparatively smooth installation of the Collection extension even for the most niche formats. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection#Generating_PDFs.2C_OpenD...
One could perhaps also consider DNSBL services by SpamHaus and others. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam#DNSBL But I don't know how many are using them and they're not really effective, so we don't really have a service comparable to Akismet. The "Antispam" extension claims to be one, but at the moment it's used by 3 wikis only.
Nemo
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