On 4/26/11 4:06 PM, Jon Phillips wrote: > > Hi Reid, thanks for the detailed discussion. Our best course of action > is to transition to the virtualized setup at wikimedia foundation to > minimize steps. > > There is no reason to transition twice if we can move to WMF > infrastructure soon. There is no burning fire on CC hosting.
Hi Jon, Thanks for the reply! An implicit purpose for my proposal was to light a fire under people, and that seems to have been successful. I see two problems with the current setup which feel urgent to me. First, the current AcaWiki skin is not so good. For the reasons I've mentioned earlier, I believe this negatively impacts our ability to grow the community. Second, I am concerned about the reliability of the current hosting. For one, people have had difficulty getting problems resolved recently. This concern is shared with others - I know at least one person who is making regular dumps of AcaWiki because he does not have confidence in the backup plan (or, there isn't one). Moving from CC to an intermediate provider would solve both these problems. However, I agree that one move is better than two - I'm happy to discuss other solutions as well. The reason I feel urgency is this: I'm itching to start work on the annotated bibliography of wiki research we've been discussing on wiki-research-l (which would quadruple the number of summaries in AcaWiki), and I'm uncomfortable doing so with these two problems unsolved (or, at least, without a concrete plan for solving them and a credible, short timeline). One scenario I would like to avoid is the move to WMF being "real soon now" for a long time, as that's a common issue with such moves. But, we could be on Referata within a few weeks easily. Reid -- I work for IBM, and sending this e-mail might be part of my job. However, I speak for myself only, not the company. _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
