[Mageia-sysadm] Wiki setup

Mon Jan 10 00:24:18 CET 2011

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 00:04, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+> And the downside is that you will have one and only one server for wiki,
+> no way to split among many server ( as noted by Benoit Audouard ).
+
+There would be ways to do so, if needed (front prox[y|ies] with
+rewrite/redirection rules to name one).
+
+The question is, do we need to plan today for this kind of scaling issue?
+
+> Now, what I would want to see is :
+> 1) who decide the language that goes ( because someone has to decide, I
+> do not think that media is so flexible that anybody can start here own
+> language, and if there
+
+That would be a wiki team (that is a mix of i18n and doc team I
+guess?). Against a specific policy (like, having a sufficient list of
+involved-enough people to take care of a newly open wiki locale).
+
+> 2)  How many database do we need ( ie, creation of 1 big db, or several
+> smaller one ).
+
+1 per language.
+
+> 3) is this : 1 big wiki instance, or several smaller one ?
+
+Depends how you set it up. @ Mandriva, we had a single code instance,
+and small custom config files (1 per locale).
+
+> Do we ever plan to have wiki not linked to language content ? ( like per
+> team wiki, or that will be section on the english one ? )
+
+I did not understand this one. :)
+
+> I guess I can also take for granted that we will not manage 1 set of
+> extension per language ?
+
+Same codebase for every locale if possible (that's achievable).
+
+Cheers,
+
+Romain
+