Fundraising tech/Components

MediaWiki

Software	Description	Source	Documentation
MediaWiki for donations	This is the version we use to accept donations.	mediawiki/core in Gerrit (fundraising/* branches)]	https://mediawiki.org | Upgrade
Extension:CentralNotice	Display and manage banners	CentralNotice in Gerrit	Extension:CentralNotice
Extension:ContributionTracking	Unified, lifecycle tracking for donations.	ContributionTracking in Gerrit	Extension:ContributionTracking
Extension:DonationInterface	This generates forms and handles payment processing.	DonationInterface in Gerrit	Extension:DonationInterface
Extension:LandingCheck	This handles landing pages for banners.	LandingCheck in Gerrit	Extension:LandingCheck

Other

Software	Description	Source	Documentation
Audit modules (python)	Audit modules built on a Python stack. Sadly, deprecated.	wikimedia/fundraising/tools
Stats parser	Written in Django for some reason, has 3 tasks Loads banner impressions from the sampled beacon files, parsing out banner, campaign, project, country, language, and banner display result (show/hide, hide reason), and rounding off the timestamp to the nearest minute Load landing page impressions from the unsampled donatewiki and foundationwiki logs, selecting certain pages and parsing out the utm_* variables, project, language, and country Count unique email clicks. For landing page impressions with a contact_id,insert utm_source, utm_ampaign, contact_id, and link_id into a table with a unique constraint on those columns, using 'ON DUPLICATE KEY' to discard clicks after the initial one for a given donor and email. For all the tasks, it filters out certain IPs, UAs, and response codes.	wikimedia/fundraising/tools/DjangoBannerStats
Mustache	Recommended templating language for all new components.		TODO: MediaWiki+zordius flavored docs
Twig	Legacy templating language, used in the CRM Thank You module and some minor mailing stuff.
Minor tools	Currently houses: auditing, banner screenshotter, statistical queries (see also "br"), bulk mail	wikimedia/fundraising/tools	Fundraising_tech/tools
SmashPig	Real-time listener framework and nascent payment processing library	wikimedia/fundraising/SmashPig
PHPMailer	Native PHP SMTP client used by some CRM modules.
Maxmind GeoIP	Library we use to resolve IP addresses to a place.
Maxmind Minfraud	Fraud solution we use for front-line defense.

Server applications

Software	Description	Source	Documentation
Apache httpd 2.2	The httpd web server	http://httpd.apache.org/	Configuring httpd
MariaDB	RDBMS backend for CRM, MediaWiki, and tools.		TODO
Redis	Data store for transient or high-availability information
rsyslog	All persistent logging must be done through syslog.
process-control	Schedules fundraising cron jobs and collects output.	wikimedia/fundraising/process-control

See also

A quick pre-campaign checklist.

A selection of essential systems and interactions.