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Set up your accounts
To access Toolforge, Cloud VPS, or other Wikimedia developer tools, you need the following two types of accounts:
Account Type
Description
Where to sign up
Wikimedia account
Also known as "Wikimedia single user login (SUL)" account. Allows you to log into wikis like Wikipedia, MediaWiki.org, MetaWiki, and Wikitech (this wiki).
Create Wikimedia account
Wikimedia developer account
Username
(also called LDAP username) is used to log in on
Gerrit
, the Toolforge admin console, and other Wikimedia technical tools. In
GitLab
it is your displayed name, so you may want it to be your full name. You will not be able to change this later!
Shell username
is used to log into Toolforge, other Cloud VPS or Wikimedia production hosts using
SSH
Create Wikimedia developer account
Get started with Toolforge
Follow the steps on
Help:Toolforge/Quickstart
Get started with Cloud VPS Projects
Follow the steps on
Portal:Cloud VPS
Get started with Gerrit
Gerrit is Wikimedia's code review system.
Once you have
created your Wikimedia account and Wikimedia developer account
, including your UNIX shell username, follow the instructions in the
Gerrit tutorial
to get started.
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
or the bridged
Telegram group
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
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