Last modified: 2014-10-09 19:02:02 UTC
When we set up the first planet.wikimedia.org aggregators, the intention was to set up a quickie web interface for managing them as well: setting up new languages, adding & removing blogs from the lists, etc. It seems nobody's gotten around to this, and it still requires a combination of SVN check-in rights (to create or update the config files) and shell access (to set up new language sites). This bottlenecks a lot of requests, eg bug 26863. More integrated feed management & planet setup from a MW extension could make this easier to manage from within the wikimedia system.
Do you think using Meta-Wiki for this would be best (similar to the www portals and the interwiki map)? At least as an interim solution, it seems better than the current setup.
I'm interested in working on this at Brighton Hackathon, few things I need to know... * What version of planet does Wikimedia use, I know after planetplanet.org stopped getting updated, there were a few forked versions... * Wheres an example bit of config for Wikimedia's setup...
It identifies itself as <meta name="generator" content="Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org"> and links to http://www.planetplanet.org/ at the bottom. So perhaps it didn't switch to any forked version? The config files are in svn: /trunk/tools/planet Currently, many things are done in the skin, while they should be centralised (even if they end up combined to a template): The planetariums of the different language doesn't seem to follow a logic, and probably derive from different original defaults. The language links are copied for each language (excluding the actual language itself). Most languages have the same content, translated to different languages: Subscribe About About-content Subscriptions Last updated All times are UTC Disclaimer Disclaimer content Planetarium In other languages but mixed with html.
(In reply to comment #1) > Do you think using Meta-Wiki for this would be best (similar to the www portals > and the interwiki map)? At least as an interim solution, it seems better than > the current setup. That's the current setup, in use since 2007: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planet_Wikimedia (Lcawte, also see r81824 summary)
*** Bug 37952 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Hey, you can now manage planet and all aspects of it via Git/Gerrit changes, since it is fully puppetized. see details here: http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Planet I suggest we close this. An additional web front-end would be redundant and maybe even counter productive. Having all changes in git/gerrit is nicer.
(In reply to comment #6) > [...] > I suggest we close this. An additional web front-end would be redundant and > maybe even counter productive. Having all changes in git/gerrit is nicer. I agree.
Okay, marking as resolved/worksforme, then. Brion or anyone else can re-open if they feel differently.
