Wikipedia:Toolserver

The Toolserver started operations in 2005 after (WMDE) received servers donated by Sun Microsystems. The Toolserver was funded and operated by WMDE, but also received additional funding from the (WMF), (WMUK) and others.

The servers hosted software-based tools written by volunteers of the WMF projects. The majority of the tools performed maintenance on WMF projects and allow their smooth operation. Anybody could on the Toolserver to provide tools that help WMF based projects.

The Toolserver occasionally had glitches that affected its operation and sometimes caused downtime of the system. There were several places to find the status of the Toolserver's operations.

Contact information could be found at and at .

Because of the importance of toolserver tools and the difficulty in maintaining the toolserver infrastructure, it was decided that a move to a larger organization would be good, decommissioning the current toolserver. WMDE has committed to funding and maintaining the toolserver until all users have had a sufficient chance to move to the new system. (see also WMDE comments at VPT)

Though some users migrated their tools to WMFLabs early, the full-scale migration process began in June 2013 and expected to be complete by December 2013 with everything completed by June 2014 when items on the toolserver will be deleted. Final decommissioning of the toolserver was tentatively scheduled to be complete by December 2014.

The infrastructure for Tool Labs was still in the process of being set up with database replication the last major issue. Status updates may be found at and also at .

On July 1, 2014, the Toolserver was shut down. Some users set up redirects to tool labs, which continue to function.

was the issue tracker for Toolserver and provides database reports for WMF projects.

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