Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-wiki (116 mails)

["Matthew Ehle" <mehle@xxxxxxxxxx>]

There is only one IP address for www.opensuse.org and the entire wiki farm.  We 
are using Named Virtual Hosts to determine which site is served.  Specifically, 
we are using VirtualHost Alias to serve the wiki farm.  None of the sites have 
the 'name' of the IP Address, which is why you get the error when trying to use 
it.  For more information, you can reference the following:
 
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#namevirtualhost
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_vhost_alias.html
 
Since there is only one DNS entry for everything, that leaves us a lot of 
flexibility in how we handle the old English wiki.  We can decommission it 
completely, move it to another name, or simply remove the VirtualHost entry, 
but leave the content 'just in case'. 

 
Matthew Ehle
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> > > Satoru Matsumoto <helios_reds@xxxxxxx> 5/19/2010 11:08 PM >>>
First of all, I'd like to thank everyone who engage in and work hard on
the transition of Wiki.

I'm sorry if I missed important announcements and discussions on this
list, but some things are still not quite clear to me.

1. After June 1st., when DNS entry for en.o.o will be switched, how can
   we reach the contents that are on the old instance (current en.o.o)
   and {aren't,won't be} transfered to the new instance?

   <Off Topic>
   BTW, is it really 'DNS entry switch'?  'nslookup' tells me that IP
   address of both wiki.o.o and en.o.o are same - 130.57.4.24 - ATM,
   and when I tried to open http://130.57.4.24/Main_Page , Firefox
   shows me the message '300 Multiple Choices - Your request could
   not be processed for this multi-homed web site because no host
   header was present that identifies which host to access'. So, it
   might be an Apache configuration issue. ;-)
   </Off Topic>

2. What will be needed for $LANG.o.o as soon as possible after June
   1st.?

   Is there any list, on which we can see which pages are expected to
   be updated on each $LANG.o.o promptly after the transition of
   en.o.o?  Pages which are listed in 'Mandatory pages' on
   'Help:Translation' are just enough?
   http://wiki.opensuse.org/Help:Translation#Mandatory_pages

   I think many problems will be expected to occur after the
   transition. For example, since names of many pages on en.o.o will be
   moved to new names in accordance with the new concepts, many
   Interwiki links (at least, link to English page) in existing pages
   on $LANG.o.o will no longer work, and, since the version of
   MediaWiki and many templates are updated for en.o.o, when we create
   a new translation page on $LANG.o.o by copying the wiki source from
   the original page on en.o.o and pasting it to $LANG.o.o, the layout
   might be broken.

3. Any deadlines or milestones for transition of $LANG.o.o are assumed?

   I read the thread 'German Wiki & Multi-Language Concept' on the
   archive of this list
   http://lists.opensuse.org/archive/opensuse-wiki/2010-04/msg00002.html
   and noticed that 'creating a new languages-server
   languages.opensuse.org serving as a temporary instance for initial
   translation efforts' is proposed. Will it be realized and
   translators will be able to use those temporary instances for their
   transition?  If not, when will all the $LANG.o.o be switched to new
   instance (I mean, when the version of MediaWiki for $LANG.o.o will
   be updated), or, will they remain as they are now?

There may be many other things we have to think of for transition of
$LANG.o.o, but I don't think they are clear to translators ATM.

Isn't it about time we start to think of what are necessary after June 1st.?

Best,

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