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

[Frederick Grose]

I've posted this letter at
http://vig.laptop.org/wiki/index.php/Wiki_upgradeto 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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