Wikimedia Foundation Releases Their Server Config

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."

Comments

As a return of good faith

[Air-conditioned cowh]

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.

I propose deletion

[vlm]

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.