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  • From: Jon Phillips <jon AT fabricatorz.com>
  • To: Erik Moeller <erik AT wikimedia.org>
  • Cc: payers AT wikimedia.org, Danese Cooper <dcooper AT wikimedia.org>, acawiki-general AT lists.ibiblio.org, Research into Wikimedia content and communities <wiki-research-l AT lists.wikimedia.org>
  • Subject: Re: [acawiki-general] [Wiki-research-l] Proposal: new hosting for AcaWiki
  • Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 23:50:19 -0000

That sounds good. Would master Brion be working on this fresh and new?

I will talk with neeru offlist as well and come up with plan.

Seems reasonable and could work with you guys towards a unified future.

jon AT fabricatorz.com
http://fabricatorz.com

On Apr 4, 2011 4:22 PM, "Erik Moeller" <erik AT wikimedia.org> wrote:
> 2011/4/3 Mike Linksvayer <ml AT gondwanaland.com>:
>> Neeru should speak up on disposition of the project, but IMO:
>> * Folding into a WMF project would be by far the best outcome, whatever
>> changes that would ential
>
> Hm, AcaWiki without SMW? That seems like it would greatly diminish the
> value of the resource.
>
> SMW is still a big heap of "untrusted code" from our perspective that
> we're not prepared to host on our main cluster yet, and our
> virtualized cluster for prototype sites is still pretty fragile. We're
> hoping to greatly expand it into a proper "labs" infrastructure
> through this calendar year, which would prepare us to host projects
> like AcaWiki with relative ease.
>
> My recommendation would be to go with an SMW hosting provider for now,
> to help grow and nurture the wiki, and to consider a WMF migration
> towards end-of-2011. Mike, let me know if you want us to help with the
> hosting costs. IMO AcaWiki needs to get the tools that AcaWiki needs
> first and foremost, and shouldn't be constrained by WMF hosting
> parameters at this point in its development.
>
> --
> Erik Möller
> Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
>
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