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Wikimedia Foundation Releases Their Server Config

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @07:26PM 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."

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Sorry, not enough by ksd1337 · 2011-09-20 19:40 · Score: 3, Funny

[citation needed]
As a return of good faith by Air-conditioned+cowh · 2011-09-20 20:38 · 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.