Infrastructure

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

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Contact

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

User:Ilario - innovation manager
User:Valerio Bozzolan – infrastructure operator (WMCH Tech Boosts)

Inventories

Quick overview of our Infrastructure components:

Infrastructure/Inventories

Tasks

Every request can be reported on Wikimedia Phabricator:

#wmch-infrastructure

Partially related projects, hosted in our infrastructure but managed by the community:

Access

Every WMCH server cannot be accessed via SSH without being in the WMCH VPN:

Infrastructure/VPN - Wikimedia CH VPN

After you have obtained your WMCH VPN credentials, stay ready to share your SSH public keys, to deploy them on the desired server, to be then able to access.

Changes

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

https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/wikimedia-ch/wmch-infrastructure

Internal Tools

Salesforce: data base
Raisenow: payment platform
Winbiz: accounting software

Servers

Infrastructure/Servers

Toolforge

Wikimedia CH hosts some projects on Wikimedia Toolforge.

Here a list of all the projects that should stay up 'n' running on Wikimedia Toolforge:

Cronos Calendar

Wikimedia CH Cronos Calendar is a federated calendar for MediaWiki, not based on extensions or gadgets but wikitext-based.

Project information:

metawikipedia:Meta:Wikimedia CH/Cronos

Homepage:

https://wmch.toolforge.org/cronos/

Repository:

https://wmch.toolforge.org/cronos/

Phabricator workboard:

phab:tag/wmch-cronos/

Domains

See:

Infrastructure/Domains

Websites

See:

Infrastructure/Websites

Archived Platforms

https://github.com/WikimediaSwitzerland
TODO: eventually remove David Leoni as the only member of the organization

TODO: eventually close this account, or keep it open mirroring repositories from https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/wikimedia-ch/

Historical pages

Some historical pages (probably not updated):

Tech Committee