Wikimedia Foundation Releases Their Server Config

An anonymous reader writes "The Wikimedia Foundation has released their Puppet configuration in a public git repository. They describe this as the first step in a project called Wikimedia Test/Dev Labs, letting users participate in the operations of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation sites."

Sorry, not enough

[ksd1337]

[citation needed]

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[chromas]

[1]

They know what they're talking about

[Migala77]

From their php.ini:

; Magic quotes are a tool of the devil! You know, a torture tool. That the
; devil uses to torture programmers. Like me. I don't like that.

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[lxs]

If only Slashdot had a policy about posters lacking a sense of humour...

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[account_deleted]

Comment removed based on user account deletion

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[Simon80]

No.

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[ChipMonk]

As if people needed yet another reason to avoid using Perl...

Baatezu

[tepples]

who is the Christian programmer

The other major Abrahamic faiths (Judaism and Islam) also have Satan. The tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons has its own sort of devils called baatezu [wikipedia.org], powerful monsters belonging to an organization spanning the plane of Baator.

who put this openly theist comment in the config

In a way, computer programming is inherently theist. A programmer's work creates an environment within a process, and the programmer is interested in its maintenance.

As a return of good faith

[Air-conditioned cowh]

Since Wikipedia is releasing the code to the Puppet application "which lets us write code that manages all of our servers like a single large application", I will release my "SockPuppet" application which allows me to manage all _MY_ Wikipedia articles like a single large community.

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[Anonymous Coward]

It's times like this when I wish there was a [+1 TROLL].

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[X0563511]

There is, but it eats mod points:

Troll -1
Underrated +1
Underrated +1

Net result:
Troll +1

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[cekerr]

mod parent up, hilarious!

I propose deletion

[vlm]

I propose deletion of the configs on the following rationales:

1) Too obscure. As a percentage of the population, no one uses Puppet.

2) Almost impossible to verify the facts. Can a significant fraction of the population hack into wikimedia and verify the obscure corners of their config?

3) No original research on wikipedia. This is way too self referential to be "encyclopedic"

4) Generic lack of notability. A blog-like /. post does not count as a cite. Show me the page of the New York Times citing this.

what this is?

[kunwon1]

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=operations/puppet.git;a=blob;f=files/puppet/position-of-the-moon;h=c69a3b3735af47abe925a85152b31145591f9b0d;hb=HEAD [wikimedia.org]

#!/usr/bin/env python

import random, sys

#sys.stdout.write('True')
sys.stdout.write(str(random.randint(0, 24) == 5))

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[snowsmann]

Position of the moon... weird. It looks like some kind of test script that probably shouldn't be there anymore... lol