We have an undeclared group of developers interested in writing software in Perl, Nodejs, JavaScript and PHP for Wikinews in different languages, to facilitate its testing and deployment across all languages. Please create a VPS for this at Wikimedia as this will make it easier for the different developers to host their code (in a cgit on the vps) and to write wiki extensions (on a mediawiki installed on the vps).
Monthly reports can be provided about completed development work to hold accountability for how the vps is used and what contributors have shell accounts on it and for what kind of development they are being used.
For the record, I've tried to self-host a wiki before, but my devices is in the process of several upgrades from 10 years old hardware. It would be great if this kind of upgrades did not interfere with development work of the group. I've tried to use toolforge, but using this for hosting a wiki (without root access) is exceedingly difficult and I didn't even try; developing tools in perl is hindered by lack of root access to install debian packages.