nixos-wiki-infra/README.md

nixos-wiki-infra

This project contains the setup of https://wiki.nixos.org

Examples

Checkout ./targets/nixos-wiki.nixos.org for an example terraform deployment on hetzner cloud.

Downloading a dump of the wiki

This is useful if you want to run your own instance. Every day an xml dump is updated here:

https://wiki.nixos.org/wikidump.xml.zst

Restoring from a backup (wiki admins only)

$ systemctl stop phpfpm-mediawiki.service
$ borg-job-wiki list
$ borg-job-wiki mount u391032-sub1@u391032.your-storagebox.de:wiki.nixos.org/repo::wiki-wiki-2024-04-01T12:40:37 /tmp/restore
$ ls -la /tmp/restore/var/lib/mediawiki/backup/
$ sudo dropdb db
$ sudo -u postgres dropdb mediawiki
$ systemctl restart postgresql.service
$ sudo -u postgres pg_restore -d mediawiki < /tmp/restore/var/lib/mediawiki/backup/db
$ systemctl start phpfpm-mediawiki.service
$ ls -la /tmp/restore/var/lib/mediawiki-uploads/
$ umount /tmp/restore/

FAQ:

When logging in with "Github auth", the app shows "Act on your behalf" as a permission.

We created the Oauth app with read-only access and minimal permissions:

Unfortunally GitHub mis-represents this information. Read more about this issue here: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/37117

Join our Matrix

https://matrix.to/#/#wiki:nixos.org

Roles

Currently, the users having priviledged roles on the wiki are:

Administrators

• Mic92
• JulienMalka
• Lassulus
• samueldr

Moderators

• Hexa
• Ryantm

Trusted users (can delete pages)

• 0x4A6F
• jopejoe1
• Artturin