Toolserver/New accounts

Before requesting

• The toolservers are under the legal responsibility of Wikimedia Deutschland, and their use is restricted according to EU and German laws.
• On a day-to-day basis, decisions about users who will receive accounts are delegated to DaB
• At present, the toolservers do not have direct access to page text, due to Wikimedia's use of external storage clusters. Requests to run projects which depend upon fetching a lot of page text might be postponed.

When requesting

We need to know

• Who you are. Please provide a link to your user page on your home wiki project; we can follow this and poke about a bit to find out who we're dealing with, e.g. check your involvement in projects, etc.
• Why you want an account. A short description of what you want to do is needed, and any links to existing sample projects or code, or even working utilities, are very useful.

Next time accounts will be accepted: 13 July
Please add your request 3 days before this date at minimum.

Requests

de:User:nummer9

Hello. I'm a little prgrammer from germany and I like to make webapps, and because of i'm interested in wikis and free software, i think its funny and good when I programm a little Wikipedia-Wikibooks-Wiktionary-and so on tool which give out some text. It shall analyze a question too. I can't speak English as good as you - but I hope you allow me to make a tool. --77.128.46.167 12:08, 7 June 2007 (UTC) Sorry - I had no Meta-Acc. Now I'm logged in --Nummer9 12:10, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

You can write your request in german if you like. Please say more clearly, what you plan. --DaB. 19:52, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

en:User:Hank

I am a programmer from Alaska. My Blog

I would like to create a simple personal learning app - would find the top 100 articles that the user hadn't read, and allow them to tag the articles as being read, interesting, uninteresting, etc. Would make suggestions based on past experience with articles. Would allow someone to read only the entries that probably interest them.

Sounds interesting, but are you still active? --DaB. 19:51, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

es:Usuario:Platonides

I'm interested in doing a tool to find the adding of specific text (who added that?, in which revision?). When it was recently added, there's no much trouble, but if you try to find who added this recently deleted image several months ago... you can become mad ;) I have little experience on MW code (they rejected bugzilla:5763 i may do it when i felt free enough). However, i have played a bit with extracting information [1] [2] [3] and JS [4]. Ah, and i run a bot when i'm in mood of then revising its changes. Platonides 17:11, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

That sounds nice, but a lack of simple access to page text might hamper your ability to do this. How would you work around that? robchurch | talk 01:43, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Oh, i wasn't realizing that Daniel Kinzler == Duesentrieb. It's really a problem, as we're stuck on WikiProxy with the external storage problem. However, the Toolserver is still the better way to perform it. Would a limit time between queries need to be enforced? (it seems robust enough but it's better to have things secured) Platonides 22:11, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

You don't seem to have thought out the implementation with respect to the problems. robchurch | talk 16:32, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

The algorithm is pretty clear. That the get revision text step can't be done asking the DB but need to ask the WikiProxy is not a big change. It's more a Toolserver's problem than user's one. Moreover, the WikiProxy first looks into the text table, only asking through HTTP if it's not locally available. I don't understand what you mean. That could be achieved through other methods, like JavaScript, but in no way better. Platonides 16:51, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

My point is that WikiProxy is fine for requesting a few pages every so often. For applications which depend upon continuously fetching and comparing page text, it's usually better to use a database dump. Incidentally, that it is "a toolserver problem" is fairly germane; yes, it is a problem, and yes, we are trying to work out how to fix it, but we also expect some co-operation from our users. Excessive resource usage leads to processes and queries being killed; it's the same on any multi-user system. robchurch | talk 16:08, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

A database dump is fine if you want statistics, not if you want data about live wikipedia. So you would still need fetching the last week or so. I'm not sure if wikiproxy/db page retrieving already handles it or if it would need to be added at application layer. However, these dumps would only be available for large wikis (define large as you want: by dump size, number of revisions, number of tool queries...). Platonides

It seems the same feature was requested years ago at bugzilla:639. Can it be tried, instead of having theoretic arguments? Platonides 22:27, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

de:User:HardDisk

Hi!

I hereby request a toolserver account for some things:

• I want to use my commons mover on toolserver after User:Duesentrieb looked over the code
• I want to develop together with Cool Cat a script wich daily gets the images used on the main pages of the 10 major wikis and protects their image pages on Commons to prevent vandalism and reuploads (especially by the Penis vandal)
• And I want to code a tool which checks all new pages made by IPs on dewiki against copyvios via CopyScape.
• And at final I want to code a tool which checks vote legitimations for votes on dewiki so that no one needs to care if the users vote is legit or not.

Best regards, Klever 18:11, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Why auto-protect them? To replace a image, the user must be autoconfirmed (or pass a similar account-oldness). For the same cost, they could completely edit many Main Pages. I'd vote for a image-watching advising such replacements (on #wikimedia-commons?) which are supposed to be very rare or the whoole system wouldn't make sense.

Be careful with the vote legitimations, to avoid false warnings on simple comments.

Platonides 20:53, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

The auto-protect was cool cat's idea. and in dewp, vote comments are illegal in vote section. greets, HardDisk 19:26, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

The user is informed, that his request is moved to the future. 
That's not a reject, but I have to watch the user (and his code) for longer. --DaB. 21:20, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

en:User:Minun

Hello, I would absolutely love to have an account, I want something special I can do, and I would love to develop tools. I understand the rules and am looking forward to developing tools for the Wikimedia project. If you have any questions, please contact me at en:User talk:Minun, cheers Minun 19:44, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Please, reread When requesting. You're not saying Why you want an account so you have little chance to get it. Platonides 21:59, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

I'd like to help out other users, and take special parts in the project, and this is one of them. I've been thinking of a couple of ideas too. I have thought of perhaps a signature generator, and a user page generator, and some more advanced tools include a barnstar generator, and much more. Cheers Minun 18:53, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Hello, Please first write down what you like to do. Because I need something to decide :). --DaB. 14:05, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

I would just be mainly taking a special part in the projects, here are some thoughs I made. Here are a few tools for users who make their personal content (user page, talk page, siganature, etc...)

• A user page (and talk page) design generator
• A signature generator

and I also have this tool in my mind

• A barnstar generator (kinda like what users can use to make theirt own barnstars)

These are just what im thinking of, I will probably be able to make much more Minun 18:48, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Those don't require database access or processing time on another server. 86.134.49.147 15:40, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Please note that en:User:Minun has been blocked for one year by ruling of the arbitration committee. TDS 01:58, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Its been appealed so please wait if your here to reject it for that exact reason, but nevertheless, I can still work on it before it gets lifted.

Now, regarding the anonymous user's question, i've scrapped the idea of the image generator as that may not require such use, but I will still keep the idea of the signature generator and the userpage one. I've also thought of a new one, its a tool that can sniff things they can do to improve, one for normal users to find out if their ready to be an administrator, which can sniff if someones reverted that users contributions, if that person needs to do more stuff, example discussions, deletion discussions, etc... and lots more. Minun 15:06, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Of course neither I nor the toolserver is under the control of the en:-arbitration-Board. But the things you do would result in a block on each project I know. So you have lost a huge part of the trust of communities and so I can't imagine that someone would use your tools. So I think the request is going to wait until the trust in you is back and/or the block is finish. --DaB. 21:29, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

de:User:Jokannes

I running the german Wikipedia MP3-Podcast and an automatically gernerated OGG-RSS-Feed for spoken articles at de:Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Gesprochene_Wikipedia/RSS-Feed. I host all of the services on my own server, causing me 6GB of monthly traffic and the need for approx. 2GB disk space. (only for german podcast) I have all together approx. 50.0000 monthly hits and about 150 listeners to the german MP3-Podcast. I'd like to expand my services to the international wikipedia. Beside hosting of the nesecessary scripts, causing 1GB Traffic and consuming about 0.5GB disk space (for a very short time audio converison cache OGG->WAV->MP3), I like to host MP3 versions of the original OGG versions of spoken articles somewhere (not nescessary on Toolserver). You will find more Information in German on my discussion page at de:Benutzer_Diskussion:Jokannes#Toolserveraccount. de:User:Jokannes 19:19, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

What about the MP3 patents? Within the United States, royalties are required to create and publish a MP3 file. I personally advocate for greater adoption of Ogg/Vorbis/Theroa and other FLOSS formats. Thanks, GChriss 20:03, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

en:User:One

Hi, I'm One, an administrator from the English Wikipedia.

I wish to run a bot that would fix common spelling mistakes in articles. I know it sounds simple, but think of how many times common misspellings like 'belive' instead of 'believe' or 'attourney' instead of 'attorney' are used in articles. Those add up, and I believe that it would be much more quicker and efficient to fix these common mistakes through a bot than through manually going to hundreds of different articles and manually changing them. 1ne 07:14, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

I'm afraid such a bot is often proposed but never approved on enwiki. I suggest you read w:Wikipedia:Bot policy which outlines the problems with automatic spelling correction and specifically prohibits such bots: "There should be no bots that attempt to fix spelling mistakes in an unattended fashion. It is not technically possible to create such a bot that would not make mistakes, as there will always be places where non-standard spellings are in fact intended." If you are interested in fixing spelling mistakes you might wish to look at using w:Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser which makes the process semi-automatic, you are required to review each change to ensure the context is correct. w:Wikipedia:Typo has some more info. Regards. Adambro 08:11, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Do you have another idea? If your project has a rule against such a bot it is not a good idea to run such a bot on the toolserver :). --DaB. 22:49, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

I will chime in here as a member of the approval group on en.wp: such a bot would indeed be denied as a perennial request. The community has long ago decided that the potential damage of an automated spell checking process far outweighs any putative benefit. — Coren ^{(talk) / (en-wiki)} 19:02, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

en:User:Shabda

Hi I would like to request a shell access to the toolserver. I want to create tool which shows up various interesting feeds from wikipedia/other sister projects. There are some useful feeds available for wikipedia articles, but many more can be useful. Fo example, a feed to read latest quote from wikiquote can be very useful en:User:Shabda 196.15.16.20 07:02, 27 July 2007 (UTC) Sample of my work en:User:Shabda

These kind of rss-feeds could be a problem because the toolserver can't (in legal way) offer article-content. So a feed "New quotes by Karl May found" would be no problem, but a best-of Kennedy would be a problem. --DaB. 22:22, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Aren't all articles of wikipedia GFDL liscenced? So how would creating a RSS feed for them be illegal? Can you point me to the correct policy, if I am in error on this? Thanks. 123.176.33.248 12:55, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Also I would like to work with this en:User:Shabda

Hello. You did not do any updates here last time. en:User:Shabda

The problem is not the license, but that the toolserver is owned by the german verein and not by the foundation. The law in germany is other then in the USA for some time.

So if your feed contains only a list to wikimedia-projects-articels, all would be fine. But if your feed offer content (like complete quotes) that could be a problem. So please say, which type of feed you plan. --DaB. 14:11, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

en:User:Shunpiker

Hello,

I would like a toolserver account so that I can work on (and share) an alternative to the current use of the querycache, which due to the LIMIT in queries that populate it, is constraining the usefulness of some "Special" reports for larger projects like en Wikipedia. This project would not require page_text fetching.

I proposed a patch earlier this year, which would add an indexed id to the cache, and thus allow returning paged results by index range scans (which are cheap regardless of the size of the cache) rather than the use of limit and offset queries (which become linearly more expensive with a larger cache). At least part of the reason for restricting the result size of the querycache-populating queries seems to have been that a larger cache was more expensive to query.

JeLuF (in bug 3419) expressed some concern that the inserts which populate the cache could also be expensive, and that the work should therefore be carried out on the toolserver.

I would like the opportunity to bring this work forward, building a working model of the solution proposed in the patch which would provide comparative metrics as well as an alternate series of reports to the "Special" pages on Wikipedia which are broken due to the current implementation of caching.

Please feel free to email me with any questions or whatever.

Thanks for your consideration, Shunpiker 14:52, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

AFAIU Jeluf said, the toolserver should be used when someone need data. I'm unsure if we have the capacity to offer unlimit special-pages for such big projects as enwp realtime. Perhaps we/you should start with a refresh every day. Would you agree? --DaB. 15:56, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi DaB, Thanks for the response! I think a daily refresh, or even a weekly refresh with the enlarged cache, would be a good step forward for a report like Lonelypages on enwp. The cost of the additional inserts could be offset by running the refresh less frequently than it is currently run. Even a monthly refresh of that report would be an improvement on the current situation where the vast majority (guessing ~85%) of relevant pages are always excluded from the report altogether due to the cache size limit. In deciding how often to run the report, I think it would be worthwhile to measure and compare the cost of:

• The cache-populating query, with the limit
• The cache-populating query without the limit
• The cache-insert with the limit
• The cache-insert without the limit

I would also like to measure:

• The cache-reading query using limit/offset
• The cache-reading query using indexed range scans

Here's another avenue I am interested in exploring: The point of the query-cache is to take heat off the database, but if the database resources consumed by queries on the cache itself (let alone infrequent inserts) have become a concern, what are some other options for implementing the cache? It seems like the data in the cache is neither highly structured or typed, so berkeley databases or memcached or something else might serve just as well as the current mysql implementation, and better in so far as an alternate implementation would not be in contention for the precious db resources. -- Shunpiker 07:04, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

de:Benutzer:Head

Hi, I'm an admin ad the German Wikipedia, and I've been a core PyWikipediaBot developer for several years. I'm running de:Benutzer:Zwobot (and, for interwiki placement, his brothers in > 100 other languages).

I'm the author of PyWikipediaBot's weblinkchecker.py. This is a tool to detect and report broken external links. See weblinkchecker.py for details. The problem is that this script uses a LOT of bandwidth. It will download any HTTP or HTTPS URLs linked to from all articles, about 50 simultaneously, including large files like images and PDFs. I don't know exactly how much traffic it causes, but if I run it on my home DSL line, I get some false positives (socket error) because the line is congested. CPU and RAM usage are minor, and I only need a few MB to store the found dead links.

Also, it would be interesting to improve PyWikipediaBot's MySQL features. At the moment, most scripts directly parse an XML dump, and could be heavily sped up by accessing a MySQL database. This is of course limited by the lack of full text access on the toolserver, but maybe some scripts (e.g. redirect.py) could make use of that limited MySQL access anyway. --Head 23:37, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Why is it needed to download the hole file? Wouldn't it be enough for to just reas the HEAD-Informations from the server? --DaB. 15:33, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Is it not possible to delete 4XX-status-links automatic in the article?--Luxo 18:16, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Luxo: That is not possible. First, sometimes there are obvious typos in the URLs, which are easy to fix for a human user, but not for a bot. Second, some external links are embedded into the context, and you cannot just rip them out. You might destroy the meaning of the sentence, or you could remove an important reference. --Head 02:05, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

DaB.: The bot first tries to get the header only. If there are no problems with this, the bot considers the link alive. This is the case with most of the checked external links. But if something goes wrong with the HTTP HEAD method, the bot retries with the GET method. Some servers seem to be misconfigured and report errors with HEAD, but work fine with GET (and thus work fine in web browsers).

Still, the mass of loaded headers, together with a few large files, leads to a huge bandwidth consumption. --Head 02:05, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

en:User:yourabi

I'm interested in doing some analysis of the meta-data (such as most changed page...) also similar to http://tools.wikimedia.de/~leon/stats/wikicharts/index.php?lang=de&wiki=enwiki&ns=alle&limit=100&month=09%2F2007&mode=view but with different time frames...etc.

I would also be interested in writing a tool to update the page_counter column under the page table by batch processing the apache logs, for the best of both worlds -- the system would avoid writing to the master DB server everytime a page is viewed, but accurate statistics would be available (trailing by 24 hours or whatever)

Thanks. --yourabi, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

We have no apache-data from the wikimedia-projects. And we haven't enough capacity to serve the page_counter-data for every access of a wikimedia-project. --DaB. 15:40, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

en:User:UCSC_wiki_trust

Hi, I am a graduate student at UCSC. I am requesting shell access to the toolserver to help create a real time, complete verison of the trust coloring demo for the English Wikipedia we have created. Thanks, -UCSC_wiki_trust

Would you offer the resultats on the toolserver or need you just data for your project? The first thing could be a problem, the secound not. --DaB. 21:51, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

ar:User:المنسق or en:User:Ordinaterr

I am a bot operator on the Arabic and other wikipedias. I want to run the bot 24 7 on Arabic wikipedia for warnings, etc. I would like to have a toolserver account to run the bot (and interwiki bots on other wikis). --Ordinaterr 05:06, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Your bot is allowed to work on interwiki and create new pages only..What do you mean by warnings?--Alnokta 11:46, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

So it runs while I am offline. --23:24, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

de:User:Frank1212

Hi,

I' developing scripts to turn Mediawiki-HTML-Dumps into eBooks suitable for mobile devices (see http://pinguinburg.de/wpmp for details). This works fine for the Wikipedia itself (because HTML-dumps are available via http://static.wikipedia.de ). However, other interesting projects like wiktionary aren't covered by this service. This is why I'd like to do HTML-dumps myself.

Thank you.

How do you plan to create such dumps and what do you plan to do with the dumps? Please notice that the toolserver is not allowed to offer content. --DaB. 16:56, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

simple:wikt:User:Wenli

Hi, I am an administrator on the Simple English Wiktionary, and I currently run an interwiki bot, simple:wikt:User:WenliBot. I would like to run this bot on the toolserver. Thanks. Wenli 04:28, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

We have had some problem with interwiki.py in the past (much use of RAM). I have first see, if the developer fixed it. --DaB. 23:05, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

There are still the problem, that the interwiki-bot need too much ram. So do you have another idea, what you could do with an account? --DaB. 16:49, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

nl:User:Zanaq

I'd like to run some real time analysis tools, yet to be developed like:

• requested articles in a category (and all subcats). (code).
• relevancy and relatedness of subjects. (no code written yet)

See also Zeusmode, a javascript reasonably well-used on the dutch wikipedia. Zanaq 15:03, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

mm, I guess live-data is not a good ides. The wikimedia-server-guy deactivaded this data not for fun, I guess :). What about cached data? --DaB. 17:07, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

me mm too :-) I don't really understand the problem. I am not aware of any server-guy disabling anything. The first tool is simply to find out which non-existent articles are linked to from a certain category. This is handy to find incorrect links, and relevant missing articles. It is not a statistical analysis tool. It has to be (reasonably) realtime so you don't have to manualy filter out the articles that have recently been created. Zanaq 09:50, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

TheDaveRoss on en.wiktionary

• User:TheDaveRoss

  My main interest is figuring out how people use Wiktionary and efforts to improve the way we do things based on that information. I would be using toolserver for things similar to the polling project currently underway at en.wikt, because Connel shouldn't have to do _all_ the work.

  Of secondary interest in in support of my bot's work on Spanish entries using the toolserver for analysis of existing/non-existing entries.

Wasn't logged in, but it was me :) - TheDaveRoss 06:43, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

User:Shizhao

Hi, I'm is admin Chinese wikimedia(wikipedia, wikitionary, wikinews...) and an steward. I currently run an pywikipediabot, I would like to run My bot and stores sourcecode on the toolserver. My bot is zh:User:Sz-iwbot (interwiki bot), User:Welcomebot (Welcome new user) and User:Talkindexbot (Talk page index, self made see User:Talkindexbot/source). And I develop other codes. --Shizhao 13:25, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Drini on meta and eswiki

I run a pywikipedia bot that blocks spambots on most wikis, coordinating efforts of several stewards and checkusers (see). But it's a bit problematic for me to run it from my notebook. You can find me or other stewards on #wikimedia-stewards to clear any doubt about the job. I don't fetch page texts, and the bot's code it's available for inspection at mblock.py es:Drini 15:47, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

This God-like human really needs a toolserver account to run his scripts which help stop trolls/spammers/vandals on smaller wikis and as a Steward, he is an advantage, and if Global blocking idea fails, Drini will most probably be our last and only option..--Cometstyles 03:58, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

user:Walter

I am user Walter, the one that is doing Wikizine. I provide an CGi:IRC-gateway service to give people easy access to the Wikimedia related IRC-channels. I would like to have an account on a toolserver to run such a gateway. see http://cgiirc.org My current host can not handle very well all the requests for it. It often fails. I would keep my current hoster but only list the gateway hosted on the toolserver as one of the options so not all traffic goes to it. Currently I have about 300mb traffic a month for this service. And 20-30mb webspace is enough for this. --Walter 11:37, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

en:User:The wub

I currently run a pywikipedia based bot, en:User:The wubbot, on the English Wikipedia. This helps with Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting by archiving old discussions. I would like an account to be able to run this from the toolserver, rather than manually. the wub "?!" 12:27, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

en:User:MZMcBride

Hello. I'm an administrator on the English Wikipedia. I'm requesting a Toolserver account in order to run various database queries, generally for maintenance work; e.g., short pages that have a single contributor (which qualify for speedy deletion on en.wiki). The queries would mostly be written or modified from those written by other Toolserver users. And, this will allow me to not have to bug people in the IRC channel. : - ) --MZMcBride 03:40, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Absolutely trusted. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 17:27, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

I think MZM's responsible for about half of my query-log at the moment. :) It'd be of help to have him, especially if we can suckerpersuade him to set himself +query-service on tswiki. ~Kylu (u|t) 23:54, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Mine, too! I have no hesitations about trusting this user. SQL^{Query me!} 03:05, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

it:Utente:Lusum

Hello. I'm an administrator on the Italian Wikipedia. I'm requesting a Toolserver account in order to run a bot for copyright control and for maintenance work; the bot should check the new pages on italian wikipedia and control if they are copyvioled. The work doesn't waste cpu resources, but it's long and repetitive, so i cannot do it daily on my pc Lusum 18:26, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Fine contributor and trusted bot operator in my opinion. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 17:27, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Admin & Check User on the italian Wikipedia. He also teaches C/C++/Java at school, super-trusted user :-) --Filnik 20:32, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

+1 per snow & fil :) --.snoopy.  20:31, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

support . He's trusted and he knows what to do with technical tools. - εΔω 15:15, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

nl:Gebruiker:Sterkebak

Hello. I'm a from Holland and I like to work whith bot's, and because i love to word with wikipedia. I am workin on a anti vandalism bot for the dutch wikipedia. But that has to work 24/7 so i would like to use the toolserver. 80.61.62.123 13:49, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

sv:User:Micke

Hello! I am a sysop at sv.wikipedia and sv.wikinews and I run two pywikibots (MickeBot and MickeBotII) at sv.wiki. One of them (MickeBotII) generates lists from categories for various wikiprojects (including an hourly update of a list of users requesting unblocking) and I think this could be done more efficiently if I did not have to do it from home. Therefor I would ask for an account from which I could run the bot instead. --MiCkE^d_b 12:37, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

en:User:Cream

I'd like a toolserver account so i can run perlwikibots so it can do repetitive work for me like rollbacking serial vandals or do some wikimeetup spam on request... --Cream 01:04, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

This user is a reformed blocked user on the English Wikipedia as well as former banned user from the WikiMedia IRC channels due to his bot-aided disruption of the said channels. While the user has expressed strong will to reform, and has started in the right direction, it maybe too soon, in my opinion, to grant him access to such a powerful tool as toolserver. IIRC he has already expressed willingness to stop his distruptive behavior in the past while then failing to do so. I do strongly believe that this user has changed for good, but maybe a little waiting can do no harm. Nothing personal, Cream, you know that :) Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 21:19, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

So this request is moved to beginn of november. Please report any NEW problems with Cream here (and of corse Good things too). --DaB. 14:43, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

User: Crasheddata

Hello. I would like to request a toolserver account, so I can develop and test a flash based video system designed for Wikinews. I have developed flash based video systems in the past, and I think I could have one completed in 6 months to a year that it is user friendly, and all the filmer would have to do is do some basic editing, such as cutting out parts he does not want, before uploading. I think I could do a system that adds in Intro Graphics, and a name bar at the beginning. And if needed I can even add in advanced features. Such as, if it is a video interview, I could add in a system where they could tell it to add extra name bars at certain times in the video. I currently only have an account for Wikinews. --User Page for Crasheddata 12.152.160.239 20:52, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

I doubt that's possibly because the toolserver is not allowed to offer content. So it would be only possible to develop the software on the toolserver and then move it into mediawiki. --DaB. 14:49, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

en:user:Compwhizii

Hi there! My name is John and I am from the English Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Commmons. I currently have 4 running and planned bots the I operate. For the third and fourth bot They will need to run continuous to be useful. en:user:John Bot III will be the first bot to use the toolserver, and will tag policy violating images on Wikipedia. The other will do that on the Commons. The ability to use the toolserver will allow me to employ bots that are effective 2/47. Thank you for your time and consideration for this request. Best Wishes, Compwhizii 00:12, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

I hate to rush anyone but running the bots on my computer really isn't working for me. I don't have the biggest connection on the planet so the bots can eat up my bandwidth pretty easily. And since I cannot have my computer running 24/7 the bots are not working to my full expectations. So I would be very pleased if I could have an account sooner. Thank you, Compwhizii 19:43, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Both Jobs are done already me Filbot (my Bot) on commons and by OrphanBot on en.wiki. The last one even better of what JohnBot will do (or mine, that's the same, because we use the same script written by me). So, imho no need for a toolserver account. --Filnik 11:47, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Looks not urgend if there are such bots allready. --DaB. 15:12, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I guess not. Compwhizii 19:48, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Update: I'm now CWii CWii 14:25, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

User:Nakon

I am a sysop on en.wiki and Meta and am attempting to revive en.wiki's Statistics Department. I would like an account to run statistics reports for the project. Nakon 03:00, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Has a wikibreak at the moment. --DaB. 14:51, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

fr:User:David.Monniaux (urgent)

Wikimedia France needs precise data for talking to the press and government agencies. Especially, we'd need data such as the number of pages in such or such category, the proportion of these that containing images tagged with certain categories, etc. All of these can be obtained by SQL queries. However, designing the proper queries definitely needs some fiddling so it's probably easier to have an account rather than send a request to query service, wait for an answer, see it did not measure everything needed, send another query and so on. Also we sometimes have urgent press requests such as "but how many articles dealing with XXX do you have" and the folks need their number very quickly. David.Monniaux 17:55, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

The request is urgent since we may have to go very soon to meetings where we will be requested to show hard data. David.Monniaux 13:29, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

en:User:ramkumaran7

I am a software engineer intersted in opensource technologies and community contribution. I have contributed to wiki monetarily and in some maintanence activities like categorisation , i would like to use my experience with the computers to contribute more to wiki maintanence, so please give a role in wiki toolbox server maintanence or any other work u decide as appropriate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ramkumaran7

06:57, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

commons:User:Legoktm

I currently run a bot (commons:User:Legobot) on the commons. It welcomes new users. My computer is lagging whenever I run it. This is not urgent. Legoktm 00:11, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

de:user:Ralf Roletschek

Hi DaB, die Umfrage http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Ralf_Roletschek/Fragebogen_Berlin08 bzw. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Philipendula/Fragebogen_Berlin08 soll nicht nur bei Berlin08 sondern ein paar Monate lang durchgeführt werden. Ich könnte das problemlos auf privaten Webspace packen, es soll aber einen offiziellen Eindruck machen. Serverlast wird nicht nennenswert erzeugt, das mache ich in HTML mit ASCII-Dateien. Es sollen mind. 300 Umfragen gemacht werden, optimistische Gedanken gehen von 1000 aus. Dabei ist die Befragung aktiver Wikipedianer ausdrücklich nicht vorgesehen, nur bei besonderen Anlässen ev. (Mitgliederversammlung, Academy) - das wird grad diskutiert. Die Auswertung soll offline erfolgen. Warum ich die Frechheit besitze, hier nicht englisch zu schreiben, weißt du ja ;) Würdest mich eh nicht verstehen...--Marcela 19:31, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Brauchst du den Account jetzt noch? --DaB. 15:12, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

it:User:Fale

Hello. I'm Fabio, an Italian programmer. I'm active in wikipedia and wikinews. I'm creating some scripts for it.wikinews. To run these scripts I use this account. These scripts require to be run every x hours. I can not keep them on my computer because often happen that I have to shout down my computer. I think I'll make the biggest part of the scripts in C++ and some of them could be in PHP. The first bots I'm going to develop are a weather/forecast, one for the Saints of the day, and one for the moon phase. In a short future I can create more scripts, and maybe bring some of them on other wikis that will require them :). PS: All my scripts will always be under the GPL. Fale 18:24, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

support :-) --Filnik 08:41, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Meno25

I would like to request access to the toolserver to be able run several python scripts using my bot account on Arabic Wikipedia. These scripts include replace.py (simple spell checking bot), welcome.py, redirect.py, etc. The Arabic Wikipedia is a relatively small wiki with a few bot operators and running my bot on the toolserver will help me to perform many tedious tasks more efficiently. I also plan to rewrite Gribeco's tool when I have enough spare time. Quick background info about me for toolserver admins: I have commit access to Wikimedia SVN where I maintain MessagesAr.php. I am a bureaucrat on Arabic Wikipedia and a sysop on English Wikipedia as well as Meta. If my request was accepted, please inform me on my talk page. Thanks. --Meno25 16:21, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

• I know it is not a vote. I just endorse Meno. --Alnokta 15:08, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

User:putnik

I'm an administrator of ru-wp and commons. I want account for write tools which will aggregate microformats and other data at ru-wp. Also I will write some small scripts. ~ putnik 08:26, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

en:wikt:User:Conrad.Irwin

I'd like to be able to put scripts I write (mainly in python and perl) somewhere more publicly accessible. My current projects include a definition analyzer for en.wikt, a prototype spell-checker for search results (hacked into the page with javascript), tools to automatically generate the indices from xml dumps (en:wikt:Index:Hungarian), and a few custom pywikibot bot scripts for doing various maintenance tasks on en.wiktionary. It's not urgent, but would be quite cool! If you want to talk to me I'm normally in irc://irc.freenode.net#wiktionary . Yours Conrad.Irwin 12:47, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

en:user:Romancohort

I'm working on extensions to Wikiscanner, specifically trying to automatically detect edit wars and revisions with malicious intent. A Toolserver account is essential for this project.

This request is Urgent.

Thanks,

Romancohort

en:User:Derenrich

I too am working on Wikiscanner. Specifically, I'm writing an automated conflict-of-interest detector. Having toolserver access would allow me to run the new version of Wikiscanner on edits that have not yet been dumped. You can contact me about the project at derenrich (a) caltech .edu. I also edit under the username en:User:BrokenSegue.

Derenrich 20:13, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

en:User:Firefoxman

Hello, I'm FFM and I'm a administrator on the english wikipedia. I'm planning on writing a spamlist bot (simillar to the en:WP:SIGN's bot) that would notify interested users about meetups and such, in addition to doing other bot-chores on enwp. Firefoxman 17:29, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

en:user:Sg070289

Hi, I am also working on extensions to Wikiscanner. I am trying to develop a tool that would help to detect sock/meat puppets. A toolserver account would help me work with live edits.

Thanks,

Sg070289

en:User:Quadell

Greetings. I run a bot with several tasks on the English Wikipedia, and occasionally on Wikisource and Wikimedia Commons. (I'm an admin on all three projects.) I use perl and perlwikipedia. All of my bots have so far been command-line run, but it would be very useful for me to be able to create web interfaces so that others can run the tools I create.

My first question is, may I have an account on toolserver? My goal is to create tools similar to this lovely Google Scholar citation tool for others to use.

My second question is, will perl scripts using CGI.pm be able to run on this server? My scripts also usually use perlwikipedia.pm and LWP; are these modules pre-installed, or can they be ?

Thanks so much, Quadell 12:24, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

P.S. It would be most convenient for me if you could reply on my talk page on en:wiki. Thanks!

pl:User:Beau

Hello. I am sysop on Polish Wikipedia. I have two bots (pl:User:Beau.bot and pl:User:Beau.bot.admin) which perform maintenance tasks - removing userpages form content categories, generating lists, removing old talk-pages, unused talk pages redirects, tagging new uncategorized pages, tagging images without license information. Lots of information are obtained using API interface, but it is very slow (making thousands requests because of limits) - it is easier and faster to fetch information from database (i.e. about categories). I am using my own perl framework - parts of it are available at the bottom of this page. Thanks! Beau (talk) 10:56, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

김우진1@kowiki, kwj2772@global

Hello. I'm a bot operator on Korean Wikipedia. I would like to request a toolserver account because I wish to operate bot. I'm operating checkimagebot now.--Kwj2772 13:32, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

and i'd like to determine toolserver account name: Kwj2772@toolserver. Best regards.--Kwj2772 13:28, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

en:User:nn123645

Hey, I run a Bot on the English Wikipedia. I would like to have access to the tool server to allow me to run queries on a live version of the database and tag uncategorized articles in (near) real time. I also would like to devolop a tool to allow users find uncategorized articles since a cache limit of 1,000 on en.wiki doesn't come close to listing everything because of the number of articles. --Nn123645 05:17, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

n:es:User:Superzerocool

Hi, I'm Superzerocool from es.wp an es.wn. I would like to have acceso to toolserver to continually run a bot to update of market share data from many sites and make some statistics to improve editions in es.wn. The usage estimated is lower than 2000 visits/month, because our wikinews version is too small. Superzerocool 06:27, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

A example of this bot is in Wikinoticias:Indicadores económicos. Other task is construct a list of image who links to commons but doesn't exists in Commons. For example Image:sdferty.gif doesn't exists and will be removed, because doesn't exists. This problem is present in many wikies and bot only construct the list, don't delte the link, becuase there are many images superseed (for example: Imagen:ObamaBarack.jpg -> Imagen:Barack Obama.jpg). Superzerocool 15:21, 14 July 2008 (UTC) (sorry for the english, but I'm write only spanish and my english skill is 1 :( )

User:FhG_FOKUS

Hi, I am a scientific worker from the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS and we want to contribute to the work of user Kolossos. We would like to create more access interfaces like WebService IF and Servlet IF. Please create an developer account for us! FhG_FOKUS 09:27, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

I have contact to him and believe that we should use the chance to get professional support for Wikipedia-World .--Kolossos 13:25, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

pt:User:Zanst

I'm a brazilian programmer and I would like to use toolserver to make and test a administration robot in python language that will check random wiki pages for inappropriate words and wrong content. Thanks. --Zanst 17:49, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Em qual projeto em português você trabalha? Alex Pereira ^falaê 14:23, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Atualmente não estou trabalhando em nenhum projeto. Comecei a pensar na idéia de criar o robô a alguns dias. Sei que ja existem várias iniciativas, mas gostaria de contribuir de alguma maneira mais avançada. --Zanst 14:25, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Procure por Leonardo.stabile, na Wikipédia em Português, que ele poderá esclarecer-lhe melhor. Antes, crie uma conta, pode ser com este nome de usuário que usou mais acima, para entrar em contato. Maiores esclarecimentos, pode me procurar, na minha página de discussão aqui. Alex Pereira ^falaê 16:31, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

en:User:JGXenite

Hi. I'm an editor across on en.wiki, and I'm involved in attempting to combat vandalism by a fairly prolific sockpuppeteer, WJH1992. This user generally makes use of IP socks, which are temporarily blocked on sight, but obviously can become active again later. I've developed a script that makes use of the MW API to check for recent activity of sock tagged IPs (with possible expansion to check rangeblocks associated with this user for recent activity). The script is currently running on my private server, but I think would have room for expansion if it could be made available on the Toolserver. ~~ [Jam]^[talk] 03:36, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

en:User:Crazycomputers

This is Chris from the English Wikipedia. I have a (relatively) small XMPP bot that I would like to run on the toolserver. I have been using my own server at home for this but since power and Internet access can be unreliable I'd like to move it to the toolserver. I am also planning a few features that would benefit greatly from direct database access. Crazycomputers 14:56, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

en:User:Mr.Z-man

I'm a sysop and bot operator on the English Wikipedia. I'd like to move my bot to the toolserver; it currently runs on my laptop, which doesn't always have a reliable internet connection. I'd also like the ability to, in the future, run bots that require a more persistent connection than what I can provide, and would appreciate the ability to run SQL queries occasionally as well. Mr.Z-man 21:56, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

de:Benutzer:MaEr or it:Utente:MaEr

Hello! I have written a small program that can transliterate Cyrillic characters into Latin ones, according to the transliteration rules of ISO/R 9 (1968). Other rules can be created by the user (this is configurable). This tool might be useful for the Italian Wikipedia because ISO/R 9 transliterations are used as article titles. The program is under GPL and written in Java.

I wonder if someone could upload this program for me, or give me an account on the toolserver so I could do it on my own.

--MaEr 17:37, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

en:Wikipedia:User:Mifter

Hello everyone, I am a bot operator on the English Wikipedia. I'd like to move my bots (En:User:MifterBot and Commons:User:MifterBot) to the toolserver; it currently runs on my desktop computer, which doesn't always have a reliable internet connection :( (And because of that I cannot set my bots to run continuously as I would like to). I'd also like the ability to, in the future, run bots that require a more persistent connection than what I can provide from my current connection (e.g. Maybe an archive bot or something like that). Thanks and All the Best, --Mifter 18:52, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

es:Wikipedia:Usuario:Rastrojo

Hi! My name is Rastrojo, and I am and admin on es.wikipedia and Commons. I am a bot operator on several Wikipedias. I'd like to move my bot, (BOTarate, full details) to the toolserver; it currently runs on my computer, which since 2 months, because of a change in the internet company, it has problems with the IP. Because of that, I can't run my bot in all wikipedias (proxy block). For so I request a Toolserver account. Thanks for all in advance. Rastrojo _(D•ES) 10:42, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

en:User:B. Wolterding

Hello,

I would like to request an account on the toolserver for developing and running a bot; see en:User:B. Wolterding/Article alerts for details. The bot would a) heavily rely on database access and b) run periodically on a daily basis, which I cannot do on my local computer. I think it's feasible on the toolserver only.

Also, allow me a question since I'm slightly confused about the instructions: Toolserver/Getting started#Send the information could be interpreted to say that you would require me to disclose my real name, is that correct? --B. Wolterding 15:48, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

This task has quite a bit of support [5]. — Carl (CBM · talk) 15:58, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

en:User:tj9991

Hi there. I would like to request an account on the toolserver for the purpose of developing and consequently running a bot to detect edits which appear to be simple tests. This bot would periodically poll the recent changes list for only small additions, as anything which causes a large page size change will already be under review by either a bot or a user on counter-vandalism patrol. I intend to write it in Python and have already taken the liberty to make sure that it meets the version requirements for me to begin.

You can view my latest project in Python here (SVN trunk), if you feel it is necessary to assess that I am an experienced programmer.

I thank you for your time. Tj9991 15:52, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Update I've finished my bot and it has been approved for a trial. It is ready to run on the toolserver as soon as I receive an account. tj9991 (talk | contribs) 19:18, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Update 2 The bot has been running with a flag for the past day on my home computer. It's able to keep up during the slow times of the day, but without a better setup it can't follow the traffic. --tj9991 (talk | contribs) 14:38, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Sorry for the OT but.. have you seen this bot? :-) --Filnik 08:56, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

en:User:Zeppomedio

Hi there,

I'd like to request an account on the toolserver. I'm a researcher in Human-Computer Interaction at Stanford University (http://hci.stanford.edu/ for our lab's page, this is my page: http://hci.stanford.edu/mkrieger/research.html), working on ways of visualizing activity of online groups in ways that help that group understand itself and act on changes -- building off of some of PARC's work with WikiDashboard. Wikipedia is a fascinating and open example of groups and individuals creating value online, and we would be grateful for an account on the toolserver so we can continue prototyping our tool. Our plan is to present a comprehensive view of the activity currently occurring on a wiki site, mixed with content from services such as Twitter that might provide context for recent flare-ups in edits or popularity. Please contact me through the talk page or email if you have any questions -- I'd appreciate a quick response, if possible. Thanks! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Zeppomedio (talk • contribs) 05:50, 4 August 2008.

Update: To clarify, none of the serving of pages would be done from the toolserver; instead, the data on the toolserver is what is needed. Zeppomedio 21:38, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Update 2: As an example of a research tool we are building, we'd like to see what new users do after about a week on the server -- how many turn into productive members of the community? Such analysis would require access to the mirrored DB.

Why would that last use require DB access? I'd think a dump would be sufficient. --Jeremyb 06:51, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

it:User:Mauro742

Hi everybody!

I'm a bot operator on Italy Wikipedia (the bot's account is it:User:FixBot) and I need an account on toolserver. In the recent months I developed a new version of script that manage the "Articles for deletion". After a long debug-time the code is ready to run automatically. This new version substitute the actually script that already run here on Filnik's account.

Thanks so much, Mauro742 18:47, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Support: I've run that script after Paulatz quitted with wikipedia but I've never fully understood how the script works (also because it wasn't coded really well). Thanks God Mauro742 had the time to work on it and he has rewritten that script and improved his functionality. So, it's better if the script is run by someone that knows how it works instead of me ;-) So we really need this account :-) Thanks, --Filnik 19:59, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Support He seems to know a lot :) Helios 10:32, 7 August 2008 (UTC)