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Overview

Toolforge is a hosting environment for developers working on services that provide value to the Wikimedia movement. The platform allows developers to easily do ad hoc analytics, administer bots, run webservices, and generally create tools to help Wikimedia project editors, technical contributors, and other volunteers in their work. The environment also includes access to a variety of data services. This infrastructure is supported by a dedicated group of Wikimedia Foundation staff and volunteers.

This portal will blah blah blah blah.

Toolforge Tools

List of tools and cool stuff you can do

A comprehensive list of Toolforge Tools

Get Started with Toolforge

Get started with Toolforge and other Wikimedia Cloud Services by creating the accounts you need.

(setting up the right environments/workflows/software)

Topics

(in columns)

• FAQ

Operational documentation

• Frequently Asked Questions
• Toolforge Help
• Administration documentation
• Documentation on nodes

Things you can do / get involved

The Toolforge community-developed web applications are all listed at tools.wmflabs.org. There is also a smaller selection listed in more detail at Hay's Tools Directory

Communication and support

We communicate and provide support through several primary channels. Please reach out with questions and to join the conversation.

Communicate with us

	Connect	Best for
Phabricator Workboard	#Cloud-Services	Task tracking and bug reporting
IRC Channel	#wikimedia-cloud connect	General discussion and support
Mailing List	cloud@	Information about ongoing initiatives, general discussion and support
Announcement emails	cloud-announce@	Information about critical changes (all messages mirrored to cloud@)
News wiki page	News	Information about major near-term plans
Cloud Services Blog	Clouds & Unicorns	Learning more details about some of our work
Wikimedia Technology Blog	techblog.wikimedia.org	News and stories from the Wikimedia technical movement

See also

Introduction to Wikimedia Cloud Services

Understand Wikimedia Cloud Services (WCMS) and which services to use.