Portal:Toolforge

toolforge.org redirects here. You might be looking for the Lists of Toolforge tools.

Toolforge is a free cloud hosting platform for Wikimedia contributors. It provides web servers, data access, job management, and other features to help developers maintain tools and bots.

Toolforge is part of the Wikimedia Cloud Services (WMCS) suite of services. It is supported by Wikimedia Foundation staff and volunteers.

Deploy your tool on Toolforge

Use Toolforge to host and maintain tools.
Go to the Toolforge user docs

Administer Toolforge

Manage the Toolforge platform and its infrastructure.
Go to the Toolforge admin docs

Communication and support

Support and administration of the WMCS resources is provided by the Wikimedia Foundation Cloud Services team and Wikimedia movement volunteers. Please reach out with questions and join the conversation:

Discuss and receive general support

• Chat in real time in the IRC channel #wikimedia-cloud ^connect, the bridged Telegram group, or the bridged Mattermost channel
• Discuss via email after you have subscribed to the cloud@ mailing list

Stay aware of critical changes and plans

• Subscribe to the cloud-announce@ mailing list (all messages are also mirrored to the cloud@ list)
• Read the News wiki page

Track work tasks and report bugs

Use a subproject of the #Cloud-Services Phabricator project to track confirmed bug reports and feature requests about the Cloud Services infrastructure itself

Read stories and WMCS blog posts

Read the Cloud Services Blog (for the broader Wikimedia movement, see the Wikimedia Technical Blog)