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Revision as of 02:18, 14 August 2015
Tool Labs
Description
The Tools project is one of two projects in the Tool Labs environment (the other being Toolsbeta).
Purpose
Runs end-user tools to support the projects
Anticipated traffic level
more than 1000 hits per day
Anticipated time span
indefinite
Project status
currently running
Contact address
marc@wikimedia.org
Willing to take contributors or not
willing
Subject area narrow or broad
broad Tool Labs is a reliable, scalable hosting environment for community developers working on tools and bots that help users maintain and use wikis. The cloud-based infrastructure was developed by the Wikimedia Foundation and is supported by a dedicated group of Wikimedia Foundation staff and volunteers. Tool Labs is a part of the Labs project, which is designed to make it easier for developers and system administrators to try out improvements to Wikimedia infrastructure, including MediaWiki, and to do analytics and bot work.
Tip: Confused about the terms labs, tool labs etc? Read Wikimedia Labs vs Tool Labs.
The Tool Labs environment provides:
- Support for Web services, continuous bots, and scheduled tasks.
- Access to replicated production databases.
- Easily shared management of tool accounts, where tools and bots are stored.
- A grid engine for dispatching jobs.
- Support for mosh, SSH, SFTP without complicated proxy setup.
- A shared pywikibot installation.
- Version control via Gerrit and Git.
- Support for Redis.
In general, every tool maintainer should work primarily on the Tools project (not Toolsbeta, which is for experiments to the Tool Labs environment itself).
Requesting access
- {{#formlink:form=Tools Access Request|link text=Access request form}}
- {{#ask:|no|format=broadtable|sort=Modification date|order=asc|headers=show|searchlabel=Outstanding Requests|limit=0|default=(No outstanding requests)}}
- {{#ask:|yes|format=broadtable|sort=Modification date|order=asc|headers=show|searchlabel=Completed Requests|limit=0|default=(No completed requests)}}
After filling in the form, your request will then show up in the queue above, and will be processed shortly by one of the Tool Labs administrators.
Help-page
Tools Resources Overview
Useful links
- Getting started (in-depth)
- Getting started (for toolserver users)
- Phabricator (project Tool-Labs; report a bug/feature request)
- Service group (tool) interface - create service groups (tools) and add users to them
SSH Fingerprints
tools-login: Help:SSH Fingerprints/tools-login.wmflabs.org
