Infrastructure

Welcome aboard, human! Bip.

Wikimedia CH has a small but efficient server fleet. Here some information.

Contact

If you have any question feel free to concat one of the users with access in the network:

• User:Ilario – infrastructure coordinator and operator
• User:Valerio Bozzolan – infrastructure operator

You may also want to file a task in the WMCH Infrastructure workboard on Wikimedia Phabricator.

Tasks

Every request can be reported on Wikimedia Phabricator:

• phab:tag/wmch-infrastructure/

Access

Every server is accessible via SSH only through a Wikimedia CH VPN.

Once in the VPN, to enter in a server, we have to deploy your SSH keys in the right server.

Changes

Every important configuration change is tracked inside our repository to identify regressions:

• wmch-infrastructure on Gerrit

Server fleet

Server members2

The server called members2 was installed in 2020 and runs Debian GNU/Linux buster (current stable).

Served resources:

• https://members2.wikimedia.ch/

LAN IPs:

• 192.168.128.41

WAN IPs:

• 89.207.237.60

Databases:

• dbwiki_executive
• dbwiki_members

Notable packages installed:

mariadb-server
apache2
mediawiki

Server demo

The server called members2 was installed in 2020 and runs Debian GNU/Linux (current stable).

Served resources:

• https://demo.wikimedia.ch/ - phab:tag/minipedia/

LAN IPs:

• 192.168.128.40

WAN IPs:

• 89.207.237.59

Databases:

• minipedia

Notable packages installed:

mariadb-server
apache2
mediawiki

Legacy infrastructure

Server intern

There is a legacy server called intern and exposed via https://intern.wikimedia.ch/ that hosts some legacy MySQL databases.

Here some hypothesis about the purpose of each database:

• b00028.board_ – legacy running wiki about https://board.wikimedia.ch/
• db00028.chapters_ – legacy running wiki about https://chapters.wikimedia.ch/
• db00028.members_ – legacy unused database previously related to https://members.wikimedia.ch/ (phab:T255848)
• dbwiki_chapters – legacy wiki about https://chapters.wikimedia.ch/ (note: no users, just contents)
• dbwiki_executive – legacy unused database previously related to https://executive.wikimedia.ch/ (note: no users, just contents)
• dbwiki_members – legacy unused database probably an old backup of db00028.members_ (note: no users, just contents)
• dbwiki_test – unknown
• dbwikimania – unknown
• dbwikivillage – unknown WordPress
• dbwlm – unknown WordPress
• dbwwwprod – unknown CiviCRM + WordPress

See also

• phab:tag/wmch-infrastructure/