[Bioperl-l] $wgEnableMWSuggest on the wiki please?

[Dan Bolser]

2009/8/25 Jason Stajich <jason at bioperl.org>:
> Can you send sysadmin request mail to the helpdesk - support at open-bio.org so
> mauricio or someone can have it in the queue.

OK.


> [aside]
> I've had to stop doing OBF sysadmin work so we are definitely looking for
> someone to help with the ALL VOLUNTEER team of now just Mauricio and Chris
> Dagdigian who do mediawiki and sysadmin support.
>
> We've reached a bit of crunch where there are lots of things to tweak and
> customize for the various flavors of MW installs that the projects want but
> we don't have enough dedicated admins to really support this.  Most of us

I know how you feel!


> have gotten into these projects to support our own bioinformatics
> programming not sysadmin tasks so there is a bit of gap here. Some of us
> (me) were not trained as sysadmin but jumped in and figured out how to help
> and do it - and learned valuable life skills... =)
>
> We're discussing plans to upgrade the machines in the future which would
> improve performance and reliability we hope and also use this opportunity to
> streamline the MW installs to be a more easily maintained wikifarm.

Sounds like a good idea.

There are also extensions that put more of the MW config on the
website itself (restricted to admins of course).

Dan.