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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."

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

    [citation needed]

  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.

  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.

  4. 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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