Submissions/Migrating from the Toolserver to Tool Labs

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Submission no.: 5034
Subject no.: T3

Title of the submission

Migrating from the Toolserver to Tool Labs

Type of submission

Workshop

Author of the submission

Silke Meyer

Country of origin

Germany

Affiliation

Wikimedia Germany (WMDE)

E-mail address

silke.meyerwikimedia.de

Username

Personal homepage or blog

w:de:Benutzer:Silke_WMDE

Abstract

The toolserver is going to be shut down at some point next year. All tool maintainers are invited to migrate to the new Tool Labs infrastructure until mid 2014. In this workshop we will help tool maintainers to get started with Tool Labs.

Detailed proposal

The toolserver is going to be shut down at some point next year. All tool maintainers are invited to migrate to the new Tool Labs infrastructure until mid 2014. In this workshop we will help tool maintainers to get started with Tool Labs.

Covered:

General introduction: How does Tool Labs work in comparison to the toolserver? (15 min.)
How to create and set up user and tool accounts? (Ideally, participants should have requested Tool Labs accounts beforehand, but we'll explain the process.) (10 min.)
The projects "Tools" and "Bots" in Tool Labs. Which is the right one for my tool(s)? (10 min.)
How to migrate web tools? (10 min.)
How to migrate bots? (10 min.)
Q&A (15 min.)
On-the-fly improvements to the documentation (during the whole workshop)

Track

Technology and Infrastructure

Length of presentation/talk: 70 Minutes

Language of presentation/talk

English

Will you attend Wikimania if your submission is not accepted?

Yes

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