Last modified: 2011-09-18 05:47:00 UTC
I just received an email about 'donatewiki' being created [1]. And left me wondering. Is this supposed to be used as an actual wiki ? Right now it is set up as an actual MediaWiki instance with a database etc. Albeit the http://donate.wikimedia.org has been prevented from access in most ways by an overruling redirect, it's still accessible: * https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/donate/wiki/Main_Page * https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/donate/w/api.php?action=query&generator=allpages If the wiki is not needed, it would makes sense to just set this up as a redirect in the apache config, doesn't need a wiki for the subdomain to exist, right ? -- Krinkle [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/newprojects/2011-September/000033.html
Hi Krinkle, This wiki /is/ needed for this year's fundraiser and we are in the process of setting it up. Currently, landing pages and other key parts of fundraising messaging are hosted on wikimediafoundation.org. This has two primary problems for us moving forward in this year's fundraiser: * There are a lot more people that have access to edit on wikimediafoundation.org than need access to fundraising-specific resources. This has security implications. Setting up another wiki specifically for fundraising-related messaging will allow for much more fine-grained access control. * Due to European privacy laws, we cannot have any donor information pass through the cacheing servers in the Netherlands. The easiest way to achieve this without sacrificing performance of wikimediafoundation.org is to set up another wiki, and configure it in such a way to never hit the cacheing servers in the Netherlands. We've been using donate.wikimedia.org as a redirect to the donation pages on wikimediafoundation.org and many things rely on links to donate.wikimedia.org to get people to the fundraiser landing pages. So we figured the cleanest way to handle all of this was to set up a new fundraising-specific wiki with donate.wikimedia.org pointed to it. Thanks, Arthur (In reply to comment #0) > I just received an email about 'donatewiki' being created [1]. And left me > wondering. Is this supposed to be used as an actual wiki ? Right now it is set > up as an actual MediaWiki instance with a database etc. > > Albeit the http://donate.wikimedia.org has been prevented from access in most > ways by an overruling redirect, it's still accessible: > * https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/donate/wiki/Main_Page > * > https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/donate/w/api.php?action=query&generator=allpages > > If the wiki is not needed, it would makes sense to just set this up as a > redirect in the apache config, doesn't need a wiki for the subdomain to exist, > right ? > > > -- > Krinkle > > [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/newprojects/2011-September/000033.html
Thanks for the heads up. So once everything is up and running it will no longer be a redirect like it is now. That explained it. Marking bug as invalid.
