[Olpc-sysadmin] [Wiki-gang] OLPC's Wiki: Designers and Sysadmin's needed

[Seth Woodworth]

This is one of my concerns about the vig wiki:  Creating another
registration wall for users to jump through is a "Bad Idea" (tm).

I can understand if the VIG team wants to document servers and systems in a
way that shouldn't be public.  But there is no reason to move *all* sever
documentation to this new wiki, nor to make everyone who wants to
participate in the wiki migration to signup and be approved on a new wiki.
Wiki.l.o allows participation without registration for a reason.

Please migrate the page back to wiki.l.o if you would like to use it for
planning.



On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've posted this letter at
> http://vig.laptop.org/wiki/index.php/Wiki_upgrade to initiate a
> collaboration page for the effort.
>
> Please note that editing on the vig.laptop.org  test/development wiki
> requires an email-confirmed account.
>
>    --Fred
>
> On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Seth Woodworth <seth at laptop.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I want to brief you about a project I want to work on in the next 10 days
>> or so involving OLPC's wiki.
>>
>> *Background:*
>> OLPC's wiki is a resource for deployment countries, OLPC volunteers,
>> programmers, and educators, it contains support information<http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Support_FAQ>,
>> essays about education<http://wiki.laptop.org/go/What_makes_Mathematics_hard_to_learn%3F>,
>> obscure technical documentation <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Early_boot>,
>> and public health <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Health>.  It's a fairly
>> large wiki at about 8k articles, ~20k unique visitors a day from over a
>> hundred countries, and at various times in it's lifecycle been on the first
>> page of results on google for the term "wiki". (it's now on page 2)
>>
>> *Standing issues:*
>> Wiki.laptop.org is messy.  In many ways wiki.laptop.org has never really
>> had a lot of time and effort dedicated by anyone to coordinate what goes on
>> there.  It is an untended garden, but it still grows great vegetables.  The
>> server that hosts wiki.l.o (pedal) also hosts a lot of mission-critical
>> services (email, etc), and contains some private information.  This makes it
>> really hard for volunteers to get access to the server to help us fix
>> things.
>>
>> *Ideal situation:*
>> Ideally, wiki.laptop.org should be easier for the community to get
>> involved.  It should be on it's own server.  It should have more admin's.
>> It should have a skin and visual apearance other than that of default
>> mediawiki.  It should also be a lot more resistant to spam and vandalism.
>>
>> *Plan of attack:*
>> We need to set up a test wiki on it's own virtual server.  This new wiki
>> should be the latest stable install of MediaWiki, with all of the plugins
>> that OLPC uses on the current wiki (or maybe not, we should evaluate what
>> we're using).  And ideally we would have a designer skin this new wiki
>> graphically.  Once we have this test wiki up and running, we can migrate the
>> wiki.l.o database to this new server.  Lastly we will move the
>> wiki.laptop.org domain to point to this new server.
>>
>>
>> This process needs to start with some information gathering and some
>> innitial coordination.  I will reach out to several lists early this week
>> and start this process.  This email is going to a few low-member # lists
>> (and individuals) who I think will have an interest and innitial feedback.
>> When the conversation really kicks off, we should use the Volunteer
>> Infrastructure Group list to coordinate our efforts.
>>
>> For those of you who aren't yet members:
>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sysadmin
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Seth Woodworth
>>
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