Do you think using Meta-Wiki for this would be best (similar to the www portals and the interwiki map)? At least as an interim solution, it seems better than the current setup.

I'm interested in working on this at Brighton Hackathon, few things I need to know...

• What version of planet does Wikimedia use, I know after planetplanet.org stopped getting updated, there were a few forked versions...
• Wheres an example bit of config for Wikimedia's setup...

It identifies itself as
<meta name="generator" content="Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org">
and links to http://www.planetplanet.org/ at the bottom.
So perhaps it didn't switch to any forked version?

The config files are in svn: /trunk/tools/planet

Currently, many things are done in the skin, while they should be centralised (even if they end up combined to a template):
The planetariums of the different language doesn't seem to follow a logic, and probably derive from different original defaults.

The language links are copied for each language (excluding the actual language itself).

Most languages have the same content, translated to different languages:
Subscribe
About
About-content
Subscriptions
Last updated
All times are UTC
Disclaimer
Disclaimer content
Planetarium
In other languages

but mixed with html.

(In reply to comment #1)

Do you think using Meta-Wiki for this would be best (similar to the www portals
and the interwiki map)? At least as an interim solution, it seems better than
the current setup.

That's the current setup, in use since 2007:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planet_Wikimedia

(Lcawte, also see r81824 summary)

• Bug 37952 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Hey, you can now manage planet and all aspects of it via Git/Gerrit changes, since it is fully puppetized. see details here:

http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Planet

I suggest we close this. An additional web front-end would be redundant and maybe even counter productive. Having all changes in git/gerrit is nicer.

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I suggest we close this. An additional web front-end would be redundant and
maybe even counter productive. Having all changes in git/gerrit is nicer.

I agree.

Okay, marking as resolved/worksforme, then. Brion or anyone else can re-open if they feel differently.