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

[Stefan Unterhauser]

Yes me ...
I m setting up a new ubuntu 9.04 VM for the purpose of testwiki.laptop.org
so tomorrow can give that to the public (FGrose, olpc-team and vig)
during the weekly #olpc-admin meeting we will discuss the next steps ...
Ok FGrose?

can everybody who wants to have access send an sshkey

by the way since the wiki of vig.laptop.org will be the first testcase
for testwiki
(cloning the vig database) who wants to have wikiadmin rights there
please send to dogi at laptop.org your username ... :P

cu
dogi

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Tiago Marques <tiagomnm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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