Last modified: 2011-03-13 18:06:19 UTC
Volunteers of the Wikimedia Brazil have an entry in the Google API service, and to confirm and enable this application, we need to set up a simple html file with the code below: googlee764e70c06f2cbad That this file need be present in the url http://br.wikimedia.org/googlehostedservice.html for the google bot indexing and confirm our request, the file should be online only for a day and then can be removed. Thanks [[m:user:Sir Lestaty de Lioncourt]]
Why do you need Google API?
(In reply to comment #1) > Why do you need Google API? > Just for use the email service (with domain personal br.wikimedia.org) and others services avaliable for foundations.
If your goal is to host emails@br.wikimedia.org at google you not only need Google to accept you, but also set the MX records pointing to google mail servers. Perhaps the WMF could host do email hosting for you, adding @br.wikimedia.org to their @wikimedia.org configuration.
I'm not comfortable allowing content/services under .wikimedia.org to be hosted by third parties - this may well have security implications and other complications, now or in the future. If you want services like e-mail to be hosted elsewhere, such as Google, you should register and use another domain for it (wikimedia.br?).
If WMF can host mail to the Wikimedia Brazil, we will be very happy. We refer to google, because it is a free service and at that moment Wikimedia Brazil does not handle money. Any sugestion?
The Wikimedia Foundation currently does not have the capacity to technically support mail or web hosting for chapters. This would be a costly and time consuming service to maintain, whereas this is done (at large scale) very cheaply by many, many web hosting and mail providers. If the services that we can provide (basic wikis on our wiki platform, OTRS, etc.) are not sufficient, then chapters should seek their own hosting solutions. This should not cost more than $10/month, at most.
Ok Mark, thank you for your information. Regards
Just for your information: I hear that the Swiss chapter is generally willing to host web sites / mail for other chapters, so you may want to ask them. They host the chapters-l mailing list as well. No guarantees, but worth a try. :)
Oh! Thank you again, I'll try this ;)
