Dev/About Infrastructure

Current Situation

Introduction

Whonix.org Site Security

This page talks about Whonix online hosting and (non-existing) testing infrastructure.

File Hosting

Hosted on whonix.org, downloadable using TLS.

Bug / Feature Request Tracker

https://phabrication.whonix.org.

(Works much better than github for a project at this scale.)

Testing infrastructure

• CI build environment required.
• Automated Test Suite required.
• whonixcheck

backend

Whonix homepage backend

mediawiki

• mediawiki, codeselect, select code, short / long / recommended / detailed buttons

mediawiki advantages

• community contribution friendly - flagged revisions - usable way to allow anonymous users to edit and to let admins review changes before these go live
• seo - plugins provide good OpenGraph meta tags and meta settings (description, images)
• wiki templates
• footnotes
• expand buttons
• footer
• mobile view
• translate - theoretically
• mediawiki markup text file backups (but are not easily importable)
• short and detailed buttons (probably not unique to mediawiki)

mediawiki disadvantages

• does not look that great
  • our mediawiki skin "strapping" looks better than usual mediawiki / wikipedia with the huge space wasting sidebar that does not have much useful content related to the wiki page being viewed
  • still does not look great
  • the table of contents at the top may not be great? Perhaps a table of contents on the left or right side (???) would be better?
• offline documentation not solved - https://forums.whonix.org/t/offline-documentation-discussion
• translations not simple
• not flat file (requires mysql data base), not easy "transparent" backups
  • (Backup using git-mediawiki: https://github.com/WhonixBot/whonix-wiki-backup - that can probably not easily be restored.)
  • (XML backup: https://github.com/WhonixBOT/WhonixWikiBackups)

goals for new website

• git based?
• prose.io (example) compatible?
• breadcrumbs navigation?
• javascript free?
• CMS free?
• bootstrap based?

• mobile friendly!
• illustrative images!
• quick page load times!
• footer links (legal, imprint)!
• seo!

• short and detailed buttons

See Also

• mediawiki, codeselect, select code, short / long / recommended / detailed buttons
• Web Backend, CMS vs non-CMS, vs github-pages, etc.

Footnotes

• Deprecated#Infrastructure

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