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

[Tiago Marques]

Hi all,

Are you still looking for someone to fix the wiki?

Best regards,

Tiago Marques


On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Seth Woodworth<seth at laptop.org> wrote:
> 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, essays about
>>> education, obscure technical documentation, and public 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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