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Wikimedia Foundation Releases Their Server Config

Posted by Soulskill on from the sharing-expertise dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Wikimedia Foundation has released their Puppet configuration in a public git repository. They describe this as the first step in a project called Wikimedia Test/Dev Labs, letting users participate in the operations of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation sites."

22 comments

  1. Sorry, not enough by ksd1337 · · Score: 3, Funny

    [citation needed]

    1. Re:Sorry, not enough by chromas · · Score: 1

      [1]

  2. They know what they're talking about by Migala77 · · Score: 3, Interesting
    From their php.ini:

    ; Magic quotes are a tool of the devil! You know, a torture tool. That the
    ; devil uses to torture programmers. Like me. I don't like that.

    1. Re:They know what they're talking about by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Uhm.. yeah. A few lines below. Poor brian doing config for 6+ y :S

      ; temporarily on while working on lucene config --brion 2005-04-16\r
      allow_url_fopen = On\r

    2. Re:They know what they're talking about by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 0

      Two questions: who is the Christian programmer who put this openly theist comment in the config, and why hasn't he been fired yet? I assume Wikipedia has a policy against bigots on staff.

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      Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
    3. Re:They know what they're talking about by lxs · · Score: 1, Informative

      If only Slashdot had a policy about posters lacking a sense of humour...

    4. Re:They know what they're talking about by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I found DNS-and-BIND quite funny... why would there be a policy against that?

    5. Re:They know what they're talking about by ChipMonk · · Score: 1

      As if people needed yet another reason to avoid using Perl...

    6. Re:They know what they're talking about by LordLimecat · · Score: 1

      Is it possible it wasnt funny, it was just stupid, off topic, and without value as a comment?

    7. Re:They know what they're talking about by Simon80 · · Score: 1

      No.

    8. Re:They know what they're talking about by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That comment's reference to Christianity is an obvious parody, not a serious statement that anything is a tool of the devil. I also looked at the last 20 comments you've made, and almost all of them have a negative, obnoxious tone. You'd probably enjoy life a lot more if you found a way to not be unhappy so much of the time.

  3. As a return of good faith by Air-conditioned+cowh · · Score: 5, Funny

    Since Wikipedia is releasing the code to the Puppet application "which lets us write code that manages all of our servers like a single large application", I will release my "SockPuppet" application which allows me to manage all _MY_ Wikipedia articles like a single large community.

    1. Re:As a return of good faith by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      It's times like this when I wish there was a [+1 TROLL].

    2. Re:As a return of good faith by cekerr · · Score: 1

      mod parent up, hilarious!

    3. Re:As a return of good faith by X0563511 · · Score: 1

      There is, but it eats mod points:

      Troll -1
      Underrated +1
      Underrated +1

      Net result:
      Troll +1

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  4. *.wikipedia.org missing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Are Apache and other configuration files for en.wikipedia.org et al going to be added to this repository in due course?

    1. Re:*.wikipedia.org missing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      We manage Apache and Squid separately from puppet. The Apache configuration has been available for quite a long time, and can be seen here: http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/

      We are eventually moving away from squid to varnish. We aren't putting much effort into releasing the squid configuration at this point.

  5. I propose deletion by vlm · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I propose deletion of the configs on the following rationales:

    1) Too obscure. As a percentage of the population, no one uses Puppet.

    2) Almost impossible to verify the facts. Can a significant fraction of the population hack into wikimedia and verify the obscure corners of their config?

    3) No original research on wikipedia. This is way too self referential to be "encyclopedic"

    4) Generic lack of notability. A blog-like /. post does not count as a cite. Show me the page of the New York Times citing this.

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    "Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
  6. what this is? by kunwon1 · · Score: 1

    https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=operations/puppet.git;a=blob;f=files/puppet/position-of-the-moon;h=c69a3b3735af47abe925a85152b31145591f9b0d;hb=HEAD

    #!/usr/bin/env python

    import random, sys

    #sys.stdout.write('True')
    sys.stdout.write(str(random.randint(0, 24) == 5))

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    Specialization is for insects. -Heinlein
    1. Re:what this is? by snowsmann · · Score: 1

      Position of the moon... weird. It looks like some kind of test script that probably shouldn't be there anymore... lol

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  7. Baatezu by tepples · · Score: 1

    who is the Christian programmer

    The other major Abrahamic faiths (Judaism and Islam) also have Satan. The tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons has its own sort of devils called baatezu, powerful monsters belonging to an organization spanning the plane of Baator.

    who put this openly theist comment in the config

    In a way, computer programming is inherently theist. A programmer's work creates an environment within a process, and the programmer is interested in its maintenance.