Re: [GMG-Devel] Moving the wiki to the libreplanet wiki

[Christopher Lemmer Webber]

ayleph writes:

> On April 7, 2018 12:54:33 PM PDT, Christopher Lemmer Webber <address@hidden> 
> wrote:
>>Hello!  For whatever reason, the wiki is being hammered.  I've also
>>spoken to Simon Fondrie-Teitler about it and we've discussed moving the
>>wiki to a namespace on the Libreplanet wiki instead.  That would reduce
>>the maintenance burden of at least one piece of infrastructure.
>>
>>What do people think?  Is anyone willing to help?
>
> I'm curious about the current issue. Is the wiki just being hit by
> spiderbots, or are spam accounts modifying pages? Is the traffic
> enough to cause issues on the hosting machine? I'll say from running a
> public MediaGoblin instance that I get crawled by spiders constantly,
> but it never causes me any problems or bandwidth overages.

It's not causing outages, just a lot of IO load.  TBH it's not that
bad... I partly would also love to host less services :)

> As for moving, does LibrePlanet run Mediawiki as well? If so, maybe
> there's some easy way we could export/import pages without having to
> regenerate the content. As another idea, I could offer to host
> something myself, but it's probably a better idea to stick with an
> organization rather than relying on individuals to host services.

They do host Mediawiki, so I think the transition wouldn't be hard.