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The tool server zedler.knams.wikimedia.org (accessible via tools.wikipedia.de)(Sun V40z, 2 x 2.2GHz Opteron, 8GB RAM, 6x 146GB SCSI) was donated by Sun to Wikimedia Deutschland. Its purpose is to provide hosting and a combined access to all the useful tools which were written by different people for the Wikimedia projects. Interested programmers should get shell access there to update and care for their scripts.

TODO:

• write some documentation for users
• agree on a policy and some guidelines (naming conventions, directory structures, sharing and documenting code...)

Please see Toolserver/Projects for a list of available tools and other content.

Accounts in the Toolserver are given upon request to those who want to use it to develop and run tools for Wikipedia or other projects of Wikimedia. To apply, give your nickname and specify reasons. It's very important that on the toolserver only tools are run. Programs must not be seen as part of the MediaWiki software or Wikimedia Foundation projects..

Accounts are given for a period of six months. Accounts that have been inactive for six months will be deleted.

Next confirmation date: 1st May 2007

You should put an index website directly in public_html, which links to all your tools and gives a short description of them. Files in public_html are accessible at http://tools.wikimedia.de/~yourusername/. PHP is available.

Please put an .about.me in your home-directory and make it readable to appear on the userlist, as described there.

We would like you to put two links at the bottom of every project site: "About this server" which links to http://tools.wikimedia.de, preferably using this button. The other link is "About this tool", which links to a form that says who wrote the script, where to find the source, full description (a template will be provided soon). Your Source code should be documented as well.

All sources should be free. That doesn't mean that you have to publish your code if it isn't ready and looks terrible, but when you're ready and the tool works, you have to clean up the code and put it on ~/public_html/project/source.tar.gz. If you put it somewhere else, advise.

Some administrators have full access to the server to look for security issues and that the server is not abused.

The place to ask questions about the toolserver and accounts is the IRC channel #wikimedia-toolserver. The responsible and official contact for the toolserver from Wikimedia Deutschland is APPER; for new accounts DaB. Additionally, there is a mailing list at http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l to which all users should subscribe. The current system administrators can be reached at <zedler-admins@wikimedia.org>.

• see /For users for usage documentation.
• /Presentation - a presentation for Wikimania 2006
• /MaintenanceLog - log of maintenance activity

News about the toolserver can be find in /news.

see here .

see /New accounts

if you find your name here and you'd like to use the toolserver, move your entry to the section above.

• en:User:Curps: English page move vandal detection and blocker bot
• en:User:fvw: English open proxy detection and blocker bot
• de:Benutzer:Marco Krohn: Copyvio check on http://www.itp.uni-hannover.de/~krohn/wscan.html.utf8

• General Statistics
• Disk statistics
• Usage stats
• Replication lag (graphs)

• http://wikitech.leuksman.com/view/Zedler
• http://www.qwikly.com/tools.html
• de:Wikipedia:Helferlein
• en:Wikipedia:Tools

• Wikimedia Toolserver
• Wikimedia projects
• Toolserver projects
• Wikimedia hardware