Wikimedia Meet

This is the technical documentation of Wikimedia Meet and how to contribute. Wikimedia meet enables Wikimedians to meet virtually without using commercial services like Zoom or Google Meet.

Technical description
Wikimedia meet is a project in the Wikimedia Cloud called "meet". Its public DNS record is meet.wmcloud.org that resolves to 185.15.56.72 which is one of the public IPs of WMF (The Wikimedia Cloud public IPs). Three ports are used: 80 that just redirects to HTTPS, 443 that handles the web traffic (encrypted using Let's Encrypt) and 10000/UDP that handles the webRTC.

Current Installation
The current installation is jitsi meet on docker with internal authentication enabled. The instance is jitsi.meet.eqiad.wmflabs (a large instance) that serves as video bridge, the interface and everything else. The config can be found here.


 * After changing the .env file, you need to wipe the config volume otherwise the containers won't pick it up.

Creating new users
Get into the docker: And then create the account: