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_toolse... 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@wikimedia.de, Talk page at [5], IRC: Silke_WMDE Birgit: birgit.mueller@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_M%C3%BCller_(WMDE)
Can we have an update of the top tools by hits? http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/toolserver-l/2013-October/006337.html (Some of the formerly top50 tools have not been migrated yet, or were migrated and then died, like lvova/connectivity.)
Nemo
Hey,
On Wed, 4 Jun 2014, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Can we have an update of the top tools by hits? http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/toolserver-l/2013-October/006337.html (Some of the formerly top50 tools have not been migrated yet, or were migrated and then died, like lvova/connectivity.)
Please keep in mind that you will also see the requests that already have a TS redirect to Labs and are working there.
Here we go:
7400645 tiles/hikebike 3613481 ~cmarqu/hill 1776401 ~dschwen/wma 1552342 tiles/osm-labels-ru 1094662 tiles/bw-mapnik 562079 tiles/osm 488677 tiles/osm-no-labels 298119 205590 ~dispenser/cgi-bin 181019 ~para/region.php 118569 tiles/osm-labels-fr 100890 ~daniel/potd 97555 ~apper/pd 80981 ~authoritycontrol/redirect 57276 ~dschwen/iip 39792 ~para/GeoCommons 38372 ~dapete/ime 36782 ~erwin85/randomarticle.php 34430 tiles/osm-labels-en 30717 ~kolossos/openlayers 20962 ~dispenser/ghct 20119 tiles/osm-labels-de 18686 images/wikimedia-toolserver-button.png HTTP 18556 tiles/osm-labels-pl 17064 ~master/osmjson 16410 ~dispenser/temp 14665 %7Edispenser/cgi-bin 14468 ~multichill/monapi 14456 ~para/geoip.fcgi 14015 ~daniel/WikiSense 12238 ~geohack/geohack.php 11866 ~kolossos/templatetiger 11410 tiles/germany 10231 ~para/cgi-bin 9230 ~osm/libs 9029 ~krinkle/I18N 8761 tiles/osm-labels-nl 8674 geohack/geohack.php 8557 ~magnus/catfood.php 8420 ~dapete/rss 8314 ~merl/redirects 7618 tiles/osm-labels-it 7497 tiles/osm-labels-es 7182 ~dispenser/resources 7139 ~geohack/siteicon.png HTTP 7065 ~quentinv57/sulinfo 6058 tiles/osm-labels-cs 5406 tiles/bicycle 5354 tiles/osm-labels-hu 5200 /tools.wmflabs.org
Cheers Marlen/nosy
Silke Meyer (2014-06-04 10:41):
[...]
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. [...]
I think that should be injected to main pages of tools that are still working on Toolserver. Some overlay in the corner (link the "fork me on Github" but with golden-orange background) with either a popup hooked or simply a link (target=_blank) to an information page.
Cheers, Nux.
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