Project:MediaWiki Farmers user group

The MediaWiki Farmers user group is a proposed user group of developers who work on wiki farms. Our mission is to improve and standarize the way MediaWiki wiki farms are setup and run.

There is currently no documentation on how to set up a farm, and every single one does it differently. The biggest wiki farm, the Wikimedia Foundation, has an incredibly complex setup which not repeatable by other people wishing to start a farm. Our group will benefit MediaWiki farms by improving documentation of the Wikimedia setup, in order for other developers to replicate it locally, lowering the barrier for new developers to hack on MediaWiki and Wikimedia code.

We plan on engaging in active code review, development of new features, and providing support for other wiki farms.


 * Current projects being worked on:
 * Implement a sane configuration management system
 * Global gadgets
 * Better support for shared user tables


 * Possible future projects include:
 * Documentation for slave databases
 * Create a bundle of "Global"-type extensions with easy documentation to set up
 * Better anti-spam solutions on a farm scale
 * Global templates and Lua modules
 * Better upgrade process for farms
 * Improve documentation for Pywikibot for wiki farms


 * Interested members
 * 1) Legoktm (talk) 11:53, 10 August 2014 (UTC) - Uncyclomedia
 * 2) Lcawte (talk) 11:55, 10 August 2014 (UTC) - ShoutWiki / Brickimedia
 * 3) Addshore (talk) 12:03, 10 August 2014 (UTC) - Orain
 * 4) Jack Phoenix (Contact) 12:21, 10 August 2014 (UTC) — ShoutWiki
 * 5)  Krenair  (talk &bull; contribs) 12:27, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 6) Bawolff (talk) 13:43, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 7) -— Isarra ༆ 15:13, 10 August 2014 (UTC) - Uncyclomedia, ShoutWiki
 * 8) —Emufarmers(T 00:13, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 9) Reedy (talk) 17:31, 4 December 2014 (UTC) - Wikimedia