T288840 Migrate WikiWho service to VPS (original) (raw)
The VPS installation has been up and running now for some time. We ran into a few problems, but I believe now we're at a point where things are stable.
The effort to bring WikiWho to production is tracked at T293386. For the time being, we're considering this low-priority, and there's a chance it will be put off for quite some time. Our VPS installation is performing very well and we should be able to scale with the setup as it is now.
We will look into adding new languages, starting with the ones already requested (see parent tasks). This is not a promise, though, as in order to add more languages we will need to first increase our storage capacity by some degree, and that is subject to approval by Cloud Services. We'll follow up on the tasks for each individual language request accordingly.
A huge, huge thanks to @Ragesoss for basically doing all the technical work here, and to Cloud-Services for graciously giving us the hardware we needed to make WikiWho at Wikimedia a reality. And of course thanks to @FaFlo and the engineers at Gesis for writing the WikiWho service and freely licensing it for us to use :)
Closing as resolved! \o/