Hi all (and apologies for crossposting)
I'm hoping to write a special report for the Signpost [1] about the state
of Labs as we head into the post-Toolserver era (how people are finding it,
its future). I'd also like to write an "obituary" for the Toolserver.
All your thoughts, comments, and ideas are welcome via public and private
communication, though I can't promise to fit them all in! The reports, if
accepted for publication, would air at some point over the next month.
As you may be aware, I've been both a Toolserver and Labs developer, so
I've an idea of what people will want to say, but do try to surprise me :)
Best,
Harry
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Harry Burt (User:Jarry12500
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost
Hi everyone,
The monuments database is a database serving the cultural heritage
community and more specific the Wiki Loves Monuments project. The
database contains machine-readable data on different objects of cultural
heritage value from countries participating in Wiki Loves Monuments. The
monument database contains over 1,2 million listings in over 45
countries in over 25 different languages. It also tracks over 1 million
images of cultural heritage objects on Commons. More info on
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Monuments_database
The database moved from Toolserver to Toollabs and is accessible at
http://tools.wmflabs.org/heritage/api/api.php . For the people who
access the database (p_erfgoed_p) on the Toolserver: I plan to drop this
database next weekend. You can access the database in Toollabs at
s51138__heritage_p on the server tools-db.
Maarten
Hi all,
you are invited you to join our IRC office hour on migrating from the
Toolserver to Tool Labs. If you have questions take this opportunity to
ask before Toolserver shutdown! If you can't attend, you can, as always,
send me your questions beforehand.
See you tomorrow!
#wikimedia-office
Wednesday, June 11th,
5 p.m. UTC.
Best, Silke
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Silke Meyer
Internes IT-Management und Projektmanagement Toolserver
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 260
http://wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt
für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
Hi everyone,
please spread this reminder!
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!
Best, Silke
[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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Silke Meyer
Internes IT-Management und Projektmanagement Toolserver
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 260
http://wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt
für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
Could someone please put the new certificate on
https://fisheye.toolserver.org too? It still uses the old (expired)
certificate for *.toolserver.org
Thank you,
Maarten
Dear tool maintainers!
The domain tools.wikimedia.de, aliasing toolserver.org, has been
deprecated for a very long time. It is legacy from the past and we
kept it for your convenience so you wouldn't have to modify any tool.
With the toolserver redirects to Tool Labs things are getting
complicated enough without this old stuff. If you have very old tools
and you are still using tools.wikimedia.de, please get rid of that
domain! After the toolserver's shutdown, this redirect will on longer
work.
Thanks for your understanding!
Cheers, Silke
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Silke Meyer
Internes IT-Management und Projektmanagement Toolserver
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 260
http://wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das
Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
I wanted to clear out the files of an MMP (named dpl), so I used
"become" to switch to the project's account, then ran "burnbridges."
This generated a nice, red message saying "You do not have an .htaccess
with Redirects to wmflabs.org !!! "
So, I checked:
dpl@nightshade:~$ cat public_html/.htaccess
Redirect permanent /~dpl http://tools.wmflabs.org/dplbot
Should I just ignore the message and complete burnbridges anyway?
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Russell Blau
russblau(a)imapmail.org
Hi!
Currently, some gadgets still have links pointing to the toolserver.
As they aren't really numerous, please help update them to point to
Tool Labs to avoid ugliness. (A simple "find & replace" doesn't always
work, please test you changes.)
Find the list for some wikis like so:
enwp: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advance…
dewp: https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advance…
commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=ad…
On commons, there are quite some more than in the Wikipedias.
Thanks for your help!
Best, Silke
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Silke Meyer
Internes IT-Management und Projektmanagement Toolserver
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 260
http://wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das
Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
Hi all!
Just a little reminder:
Your toolserver accounts will expire on January 6th, 2014. You can renew
it with acctrenew as usual.
If you had an expired account and you want to come back and collect your
data: Your account has been reactivated until that date. You can login
to nightshade and use the script "byebye" to collect your stuff. It will
create a new directory inside your home directory called FarewellBundle.
This directory contains tarballs of almost everything you had on the
toolserver. The only thing you have to take care of separately is your
stuff in /mnt/user-store. Please download the data you don't need on the
toolserver any longer!
If you don't need your account any longer you can delete it using the
script "burnbridges". It will delete everything but your
~/public_html/.htaccess files in case you have a redirect to Tool Labs.
For us, it would be very helpful if you deleted you data yourselves.
If you find some time before January 6th, please consider migrating your
tools to Tool Labs [1][2], as the toolserver will be discontinued in mid
2014. If you hit barriers that prevent you from migrating, please create
bugs in Bugzilla [3]! We can meet in an IRC office hour in January to
discuss them. The office hour will be announced separately at the
beginning of January.
Best, Silke
[1] http://tools.wmflabs.org/
[2] Tool Labs Help:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Tools/Help
[3]
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Wikimedia%20Labs&compo…
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Silke Meyer
Internes IT-Management und Projektmanagement Toolserver
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 260
http://wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt
für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
Hey,
some Solaris software patches were released like patches for Java and kernel updates.
I'd install them on
Monday, 28th Apr, 19:00 UTC - 22:00 UTC
Systems need reboot after the update.
Cheers
Marlen/nosy