Hi folks,
please spread the word! From July 1, tools which haven't been migrated from
toolserver to tool labs yet, will stop working.
Further informations:
About one year ago, we, Wikimedia Deutschland e. V., announced June 30th as
the deadline of the Toolserver migration (Roadmap at [1]). This deadline is
approaching. The Toolserver will stop working on June 30th. What will
happen afterwards?
Background information
The Toolserver is a community based infrastructure that hosts software
supporting Wikipedia and its sister projects. Over the years many active
volunteers have developed helpful and great software tools that are running
on several Wikimedia projects.
The Toolserver is operated by Wikimedia Deutschland with assistance from
the Wikimedia Foundation and several chapters. For many reasons, the
Toolserver will be discontinued and replaced by Tool Labs [2], a platform
operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. Please see the reasons at [3]. For
more than one year Wikimedia Deutschland has been coordinating the
migration of software tools from Toolserver to Tool Labs.
What editors should know
The toolserver is a community-driven project. The tools shall be migrated
by the developers resp. maintainers themselves. Many of them have already
migrated their tools or have indicated that they will do so before the end
of this month. We have a special agreement with the OpenStreetMap projects
and with the developer of Merlbot [4] to ensure these tools don’t stop
working. All other tools will stop working by July 1st.
What editors can do
On Tool Labs [2], you can look up if the tools that you use and need have
already moved there.
Talk to the developers of your favourite tools: It is important to let
them know how much you appreciate their tools and that you need them to do
your work.
Contact us if you don’t know who these developers are or if you have any
questions or if you want us to forward wishes or requests to tool
developers. Contact information is given at the end of this text.
Information for tool developers
If you are still facing the migration of your tools, please keep in mind
that lots of people use your tools. They are a great support for their
daily work and will be missed when they fail. Please take the time to
migrate them or poke us: WMDE can still support you during migration - what
we can’t do is maintain abandoned tools in the long run.
From July 1st on, the toolserver admins will still hand
you over your
backups upon request and create redirects to Tool Labs for you. You
won’t
be able to log in to the toolserver anymore though.
If anyone wants to have and reuse other people’s code, we recommend to seek
approval from them directly, even if from a legal point of view there is no
problem. Don’t hesitate to talk to us if you need a contact person.
Here is a collection of the relevant links for you again:
Tool Labs:
http://tools.wmflabs.org
Tool Labs help pages:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Tools/Help
How to create redirects to Tool Labs:
https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/.htaccess#.htaccess
Magnus Manske’s migration manual:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/Migrating_from_tools…
Scripts to clean up your toolserver account]] after migration:
https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Main_Page
Mailing list Labs-l:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
IRC channel #wikimedia-labs:
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-labs
Marc-André Pelletier (Coren) and Andrew Bogott (andrewbogott) are the WMF
Tool Labs ops. Petr Bena (petan) and Tim Landscheidt (scfc_de) are
voluntary Tool Labs admins.
We invite you to join our IRC office hour in #wikimedia-office on
Wednesday, June 11th, at 5 p.m. UTC.
Contact:
The migration is coordinated by Silke Meyer (WMDE). Birgit Müller supports
her in communications. The two toolserver admins Marlen Caemmerer und
Alexander Mette are glad to help you with advice. Marc-André Pelletier can
answer all questions concerning Tool Labs. Contact us at
Silke: silke.meyer(a)wikimedia.de, Talk page at [5], IRC: Silke_WMDE
Birgit: birgit.mueller(a)wikimedia.de, Talk page at [6], IRC: Birgit_WMDE
We hope that the transition will happen as smoothly as possible!
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tool_Labs/Roadmap_en
[2]
http://tools.wmflabs.org
[3]
https://toolserver.org/
[4]
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:MerlBot
[5]
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer_Diskussion:Silke_WMDE
[6]
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer_Diskussion:Birgit_Müller_(WMDE)
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Birgit Müller
Team Communitys
Community Liaison
Volunteer Support Department
E-Mail: birgit.mueller(a)wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
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