[57north-discuss] New Semantic MediaWiki for 57North

[Iain R. Learmonth]

Hi Rob,

On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 02:12:39PM +0000, Robert McWilliam wrote:
> What is the objection to hosting it on garioch?

  * Semantic MediaWiki has an RDF backend. RDF is not resource friendly and
    adequate room should be allowed for the triplestore to grow.
  * We have had issues when uploading high resolution images to the wiki on
    garioch as not enough memory has been available to perform image
    thumbnailing, so resources need to be allowed for this.
  * Semantic MediaWiki is a complex PHP application and as such will, from
    time to time, have remotely exploitable vulnerabilities.
  * garioch currently hosts our mail and DNS systems. These, if compromised,
    have far greater potential for causing reputational harm than the wiki.
  * As far as possible, we should also be keeping membership data away from
    any potential security issues.
  * Currently, the space enjoys me paying for hackr. I pay for it and
    maintain it for the benefit of all space members.
  * The cost incurred to bring garioch up to a specification where it would
    not lead to increased page load times and potential crashes where
    resource limits are reached would not be insignificant.

Thanks,
Iain.

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