User:Dvorapa/Toolforge for beginners/Create a tool
Okay, so you have your Wikimedia developer account and you also have successfully applied for Toolforge membership. Now you can use your account's folder and command line itself, but you can also create a tool, which has some advantages over the user account. For example you can share the tool account with multiple co-workers or create numerous separate tools for multiple separate jobs.
Create a tool account
First you have to create a tool account, which can be translated as the tool's record in the database, its folder and toolinfo file and some other backend things.
- Login to the Toolforge admin console and click on any Tools or View my tools link all over the main page.
- In the Tools page there is a left menu, where are your tools going to be listed, and also you can search and view details about other's tools on the right.
- Click on the Create new tool button in the left menu.
- Fill in the unique tool name (used for the command line, so be sure it is easily writeable and only lowercase alphanumeric or hyphen is used), title and description (now you can be more creative), choose a licence and perhaps tag it to make it better discoverable.
- Once you've created new tool account, you can find it in the Tools page and after clicking on it, you can further edit the tool info, manage the maintainers or create a repository on Diffusion.
Further help on this topic can be found at Help:Toolforge.
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