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Make wikiafrica.org static
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After some discussions, the WordPress website http://wikiafrica.org/ actually served by epsilon.wikimedia.it (89.31.49.212) should be converted as a static HTML website and reduce its footprint (actually 1.5G), trying to simplify its maintenance now that there is not an active webmaster for that project with enough time to keep everything up-to-date with all WordPress security patches, ecc.

Related discussion:

https://mailman.wikimedia.it/private/tech/2020-November/000653.html

See WikiAfrica on Meta-Wiki:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiAfrica

Current homepage at http://wikiafrica.org/ :

wikiafrica-org-screenshot.png (1×1 px, 341 KB)

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valerio.bozzolan created this task.Nov 6 2020, 12:43 AM
valerio.bozzolan triaged this task as Low priority.Nov 6 2020, 12:52 AM
valerio.bozzolan added a comment.Nov 6 2020, 12:59 AM

After some research in the man page I would suggest to issue an:

wget --mirror --convert-links --no-parent --page-requisites --adjust-extension http://www.wikiafrica.org/

Then we can do some adjustments like removing some unused JavaScript dependencies or proprietary trackers and make all the hotlinked dependencies offline etc. but I do not expect much more.

valerio.bozzolan updated the task description. (Show Details)EditedNov 6 2020, 3:48 AM
valerio.bozzolan set the point value for this task to 4.

Started working on this dummy repository:

https://github.com/valerio-bozzolan/static-wikiafrica.org

It just works but maybe someone else can give an help in the spare time to reduce external resources (some jQuery libraries, some trackers...).

Nemo_bis renamed this task from Make wikiafrica.it static to Make wikiafrica.org static.Nov 6 2020, 10:29 AM
Nemo_bis subscribed.

Change subject; wikiafrica.it will instead be merged to wiki.wikimedia.it.

valerio.bozzolan added a comment.Nov 6 2020, 10:33 AM
In T267380#6607984, @valerio.bozzolan wrote:

.it

(Repository renamed to .org. Apologies for the typo.)

valerio.bozzolan updated the task description. (Show Details)Apr 2 2021, 2:34 PM
valerio.bozzolan moved this task from Backlog to In progress on the WMIT-Infrastructure board.Aug 25 2021, 9:55 AM
valerio.bozzolan closed this task as Resolved.Sep 7 2021, 10:00 AM
valerio.bozzolan moved this task from In progress to 🏛️ Organiz/Infra on the WMIT-Infrastructure board.

Gvf was in a hurry, and he took care of this. Thank you gvf!

valerio.bozzolan mentioned this in T290474: Make wikiafrica.it static.Sep 7 2021, 10:03 AM
valerio.bozzolan moved this task from 🏛️ Organiz/Infra to 🌐 Web on the WMIT-Infrastructure board.Jul 26 2022, 1:09 PM
valerio.bozzolan added a parent task: T318116: Decommission extra services from WMIT server epsilon.Mar 25 2025, 4:01 PM
valerio.bozzolan mentioned this in T318116: Decommission extra services from WMIT server epsilon.
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