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Toolserver Cluster

Wikimedia holds ownership of four toolservers:

  • A second toolserver, hemlock.ts.wikimedia.org, is a Sun Fire x4100 with two 2.8GHz Opteron CPUs, 8GB RAM and two 70GB SCSI HDDs. It was also donated by Sun Microsystems in 2006 and is located alongside zedler, which now functions as a database server. hemlock is accessible through http://tools.wikimedia.de/.
  • A third toolserver, yarrow.ts.wikimedia.org, is a Dell PowerEdge 1950 with two dual-core 2GHz Xeon CPUs, 16GB RAM, two 72GB SAS disks and twelve 15,000 RPM 72GB SCSI disks. It was acquired in 2007 and is now working as an additional database server.
  • A fourth toolserver, vandale.ts.wikimedia.org, is a Sun Fire V40z with two Opteron 844 CPUs, 8GB RAM and 6 146GB SCSI disks. It was borrowed from the Wikimedia Foundation in 2007.

The purpose of the servers is to provide hosting and combined access to all the useful tools which were written by different people for the Wikimedia projects. Interested programmers should get shell access to update and care for their bots or scripts which run on a Wikimedia Foundation project.

Contents

[edit] Projects

Please see Toolserver/Projects for a list of available tools and other content.

[edit] Account policy

[edit] Account allocation

Accounts on the Wikimedia Toolserver are given upon request to those who want to use it to develop and run tools for a Wikimedia Foundation project, such as Wikipedia. To apply, give your nickname and specify reasons. It's very important that only tools are run on the toolserver. Programs must not be seen as part of the MediaWiki software or Wikimedia Foundation projects.

Accounts are given for a period of six months. Accounts that have been inactive for six months will be deleted.

[edit] Using convention

You should put an index website directly in the public_html directory, which links to all your tools and gives a short description of them. Files in this directory are accessible at http://tools.wikimedia.de/~yourusername/. PHP is available.

Please also put an .about.me file in your home directory (/home/yourusername) and make it readable to appear on the userlist, as described there.

We would like you to put two links at the bottom of every project site: "About this server" which links to http://tools.wikimedia.de, preferably using this button. The other link is "About this tool", which links to a form that says who wrote the script, where to find the source, full description (a template will be provided soon). Your source code should be documented as well.

All sources should be free. That doesn't mean that you have to publish your code if it isn't ready and looks terrible, but when you're ready and the tool works, you have to clean up the code and put it in your subversion-repository on hemlock.

Some administrators have full access to the server to look for security issues and ensure that the server is not abused.

[edit] Contact

[edit] Administrators

To contact the administrators, please email Image:Zedler-admins.png.

  • River
  • DaB. (new account approval)
  • Duesentrieb
  • Greg Maxwell
  • Wegge
  • Rob Church - resigned, May 2007

[edit] Documentation

[edit] News

News about the toolserver can be found in /news.

[edit] People

[edit] People with accounts

[edit] People interested to join

For those programmers that are interested in having an account on the toolserver, you may apply today at the account request page. Please note that there may be a delay in your account being created, but it will eventually be worked on if it does not have any questions outstanding from the Toolserver admins. If you require an account urgently, please state this and also a reason in your application.

[edit] Statistics

[edit] See also

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