On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 12:47 PM Travis Briggs <audiodude(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
As part of the WP 1.0 bot/tool project, we are no longer using webservices or grid/cron
jobs on Toolforge. However we still access the English Wikipedia replica database and our
tool specific database hosted on tools.db.svc.wikimedia.cloud.
It has been suggested by team members that we delete our toolforge account since
we're not using any resources on the toolforge server. However my question is: Would
we still be able to access the databases mentioned above? If there's a lighter weight
way of accessing those databases without having a toolforge login we'd be interested
in that as well.
Thanks,
-Travis
A Toolforge tool is currently the recommended (and only!) way to get
user credentials for accessing the wiki replicas and tools db. If you
have some old data files or something laying around on Toolforge that
you are not using do clean those up. Otherwise, Toolforge accounts are
"cheap" for the movement and for the Toolforge admins. Do not worry
that you are consuming scarce resources. :)
Bryan
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