John Tex wrote: The tools at tools.wikimedia.de were not only used by the English Wikipedia, however. Things like the user edit count and Duesentrieb's CategoryTree tool were used by other language editions, as evidenced by the number of translations for CategoryTree.[1] At the Vietnamese Wikipedia, the most popular user infobox linked to interiot's edit counter,[2] and the CategoryTree tool was even built right into the category structure there,[3] via a "cây" ("tree") link in every category page that contained subcategories. tools.wikimedia.org is currently timing out for me, but I hope that it won't be down for any extended period of time. Although the English Wikipedia certainly accounts for a large chunk of the Toolserver's usage, other language editions -- which still worked just fine with the tools there -- will find it odd that the tools have just suddenly vanished. If it has been disabled, please consider restoring access to these valuable tools; even though they don't yet work for the English Wikipedia or the Asian cluster wikis, there are a number of wikis that could still benefit from this service. [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Duesentrieb/CategoryTree [2] http://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ti%C3%AAu_b%E1%BA%A3n:T%C3%B3m_t%E1%BA%AFt_v%E… [3] http://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%E1%BB%83_lo%E1%BA%A1i:T%E1%BA%A5t_c%E1%BA%A3 -- Minh Nguyen <mxn(a)zoomtown.com> AIM: trycom2000; Jabber: mxn(a)myjabber.net; Blog: http://mxn.f2o.org/

On 4/20/06, John Tex <johntexster(a)gmail.com> wrote: It should be noted that zedler (the toolserver) was apparently nearing its capacity already, in terms of disk space and ability to keep up with the task of database replication. The wikitech-l people have mentioned some technical fixes to get around the situation with enwiki being on a different cluster now, but the toolserver will still be an issue. It may be that more servers will have to be bought, or zedler upgraded, if the toolserver project is to keep running. -- Stephen Bain stephen.bain(a)gmail.com