Project Name: lemmy

Developer account usernames of requestors: Gryllida, 1 more TBC

Purpose: news aggregator to get Wikipedians who are writing current events, and Wikinewsies, more engaged in discussions and editing the wiki. I anticipate user retention may improve. A trial of 3 to 6 months should suffice to assess the impact.

Brief description: It will be invite-only initially to reduce risk of spam, until enough mods are recruited. Low bandwidth, low disk space required. http://join-lemmy.org

How soon you are hoping this can be fulfilled: up to 4 weeks for setup (1 week should be enough but I am being over cautious in case issues are identified)

Original task description:

For working on Wikipedia and Wikinews I would like to setup lemmy, a news aggregator. I am hoping users will be able to login with same login as Wikipedia, and get more engaged in discussions and editing the wiki. It will be invite-only initially to reduce risk of spam, until enough mods are available. In this ticket I would like to request a vps for this task. I expect the trial to last between 3 and 6 months after which I can write a summary report of how it impacted on-wiki activities.