Comments on: Opening our operations with Wikimedia Labs

By: Turkic Wikimedia Conference 2012, Almaty: Other Highlights and Summing Up « Aharoni in Unicode, ya mama

Sat, 12 May 2012 08:52:45 +0000

[...] for teaching configuration of high-performance websites. She was very happy when I told that the Wikimedia server configuration became even more transparent [...]

By: 维基媒体允许人人可更新底层架构 « My Blog

维基媒体允许人人可更新底层架构 « My Blog — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:43:14 +0000

[...] 维基百科人人可编辑的原则正从内容走向了底层架构。维基媒体基金会宣布了Wikimedia Labs项目。志愿者可通过puppet和git在Wikimedia [...]

By: Ryan Lane

Ryan Lane — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 07:51:57 +0000

Though slightly misleading, due to Gerrit users, it’s not terribly inaccurate. I auto-created a number of Gerrit users that didn’t already have Labs access, but after I ran the script it was only about 20-30 users that were created. Almost all Gerrit users also have Labs access because they requested it before the Git switchover.

By: Wikipediaは運用インフラもボランティアが貢献できる–そのための環境をWikimediaが整備

Wikipediaは運用インフラもボランティアが貢献できる–そのための環境をWikimediaが整備 — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 03:17:15 +0000

[...] Wikipediaとその関連プロジェクトはすべて、言うまでもなく何千ものボランティアが支えている。しかしその物理的なインフラは、オープンソースソフトウェアが基盤であるにもかかわらず、その稼働を外部ボランティアが支援することは、きわめて難しかった。その作業の多くは、有給の社員が担当している。しかしここ1年半ほど、Wikipediaと姉妹プロジェクトの母体であるWikimedia Foundationはひそかに、Wikimedia Labsというものを準備していた。それはOpenStackを使う新しいプロジェクトで、Wikimediaのチームによるバックエンドのインフラの開発〜試験〜展開、それらの変更等のタスクを、ボランティアが支援できるようにするためのものだ。Wikimedia Labsは非公開ベータで昨年10月にロンチし、今日（米国時間4/16）現在もまだ非公開ベータだ。 [...]

By: bawolff

bawolff — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 01:47:45 +0000

Correct me if I’m wrong: the “Labs has…264 users” includes everyone who just has an account in order to get access to gerrit? That seems a bit of a misleading number to me.

By: Wikimedia Brings The Wikipedia Approach To How It Runs Its Servers - The Review Blog

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:23:43 +0000

[...] – the organization behind Wikipedia and its sister projects – has been quietly working on Wikimedia Labs, a new project based on OpenStack that will allow volunteers to help the [...]

By: Wikimedia Brings The Wikipedia Approach To How It Runs Its Servers | Startup Help

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:17:09 +0000

[...] – the organization behind Wikipedia and its sister projects – has been quietly working on Wikimedia Labs, a new project based on OpenStack that will allow volunteers to help the [...]

By: Wikimedia Brings The Wikipedia Approach To How It Runs Its Servers | TechCrunch

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:53:23 +0000

[...] – the organization behind Wikipedia and its sister projects – has been quietly working on Wikimedia Labs, a new project based on OpenStack that will allow volunteers to help the [...]

By: Ryan Lane

Ryan Lane — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:50:35 +0000

Labs will eventually be a competing environment with Toolserver. This blog post is mostly meant as an introduction, and discusses how we’re using Labs at this moment, so I didn’t discuss what we have in plans. We have Toolserver-like features coming in the future, but the feature set of Labs and Toolserver will not be one to one.

By: Kozuch

Kozuch — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:06:52 +0000

Good question…