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

Mon Jun 8 22:37:26 EDT 2009

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Stefan Unterhauser<dogi at laptop.org> wrote:
> 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?
>

I wasn't in the decision making part for the VM, so apologies from
jumping in, but I am curious about Ubuntu 9.04 as opposed to 8.04
which is LTS and supported with updates for 5 years. I usually run my
servers on 6.06 or 8.04, so I thought I'd ask.

cheers,
Sameer
-- 
Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
http://verma.sfsu.edu/
http://opensource.sfsu.edu/

> 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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