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Help:Cloud Services introduction - WikitechHelp:Cloud Services introduction - Wikitech Jump to content Main menu Main menu move to sidebar hide Navigation Main pageServer admin log: ProdAdmin log: RelEngIncident statusDeploymentsSRE Team Help Cloud VPS & Toolforge Cloud VPS portalToolforge portalRequest VPS projectAdmin log: Cloud VPS wikitech.wikimedia.org Recent changesSpecial pagesVillage pump Search Search English Appearance Donate Create account Log in Personal tools Donate Create account Log in Contents move to sidebar hide Beginning 1 What can you do with Cloud Services? Toggle What can you do with Cloud Services? subsection 1.1 Host tools on Wikimedia servers 1.2 Run scripts and visualize data 1.3 Administer servers for software development 1.3.1 What is the difference between Cloud VPS and Toolforge? 1.4 Access databases and data dumps 1.4.1 Access wiki databases for tool development 1.4.2 Query wiki replicas and dumps in a browser 1.5 Get Exclusive Wikimedia Enterprise API Access 2 Which service is right for you? 3 Before you start 4 Learn more 5 Communication and support Toggle the table of contents Help:Cloud Services introduction This page is protected from editing (semi protected). Help pageDiscussion English ReadView sourceView history Tools Tools move to sidebar hide Actions ReadView sourceView history General What links hereRelated changesPermanent linkPage informationCite this pageGet shortened URL Print/export Create a bookDownload as PDFPrintable version Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wikitech Poster-format overview Wikimedia Cloud Services (WMCS) provides tools, services, and support for technical collaborators who want to contribute to Wikimedia software projects. Use Cloud Services to host your software tools for the Wikimedia movement, without charge. What can you do with Cloud Services? Host tools on Wikimedia servers Tools and bots make it easier to edit and maintain Wikimedia projects. For developers who support Wikimedia projects by developing tools and bots, Toolforge provides the following features: Free, reliable, and scalable shared hosting, including web servers, databases and other data storage A distributed job processing system Support for multiple users to collaboratively maintain and manage tools To use Toolforge you need: Some programming knowledge An understanding of Unix command line To get started, visit Help:Toolforge. Or, learn more about creating bots. Run scripts and visualize data PAWS is a Jupyter notebook installation hosted by Wikimedia. PAWS notebooks can be used for creating tutorials, running live code, creating data visualizations, running basic bots, and more. A single PAWS notebook is maintained by a single user, but they can be downloaded and forked by other users. To use PAWS you need only a Wikimedia login and a web browser. Knowledge of Python is helpful, but not required. Administer servers for software development Open source software projects help the Wikimedia movement by improving core infrastructure (like MediaWiki), powering research and analytics, and supporting Wikimedia operations and software development. For advanced projects that aren't viable in the Toolforge environment, Cloud VPS (Virtual Private Server) provides the following features: Free cloud computing environment, powered by OpenStack Collaboratively-owned collections of virtual private servers, storage, firewall, and HTTPS proxy resources to projects Access to a variety of data services Freedom to install packages not provided by Debian or the Wikimedia Foundation To use Cloud VPS, you need: An open source project that isn't viable in the Toolforge environment, or can't be accomplished using other WMCS offerings One or more active project maintainers who meet basic requirements Advanced programming knowledge Advanced experience with Unix command line The ability to administer your own servers and manage your project's applications, data, runtime, middleware, and operating systems To get started, visit Help:Cloud VPS. What is the difference between Cloud VPS and Toolforge? Cloud VPS is an Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) solution. It provides virtual machines, storage, firewall, and HTTPS proxy resources to projects. The members of each individual project are responsible for managing applications, data, runtime, middleware, and operating systems themselves. Cloud VPS projects use the domain wmcloud.org (some older projects use the legacy domain wmflabs.org). Toolforge is a Platform as a service (PaaS) solution. It provides web servers, databases, and a distributed job processing system as managed services for tool maintainers. Toolforge tools use the domain toolforge.org. Access databases and data dumps What is a wiki replica? What's in the dumps? Learn the basics of Wikimedia open data and how to access all available datasets at Research:Data. Access wiki databases for tool development Tools and software hosted on Toolforge and Cloud VPS can directly access public data dumps and production wiki replicas. Learn about accessing wiki replica databases from a tool account. Learn about accessing dumps through shared storage services for Cloud VPS and Toolforge. Query wiki replicas and dumps in a browser PAWS provides a Jupyter notebook environment you can use to query wiki replicas and dumps, create interactive graphs, and use APIs for analysis. Superset and Quarry are web interfaces for querying live replica SQL databases of public Wikimedia wikis. To use Superset or Quarry you need only a Wikimedia login and a web browser, but you should have a basic understanding of SQL. Learn about SQL queries. Get Exclusive Wikimedia Enterprise API Access The Wikimedia Enterprise APIs are read-only APIs providing high-volume access to Wikimedia project data. Learn more on the Enterprise APIs page. Following the Wikimedia Enterprise Principle of Access for All, Wikimedia community members get exclusive access to the same endpoints and features as paid accounts. From within PAWS, Cloud VPS, or Toolforge, make your calls to any endpoint described in the Enterprise API documentation without passing an authorization header. More ways of accessing the Wikimedia Enterprise APIs can be found at metawiki:Wikimedia Enterprise#Access. Which service is right for you? Activity / Needs PAWS Superset Toolforge Cloud VPS Data as a service Data as a service Platform as a service Infrastructure as a service Write scripts and visualize data ✔ Write queries against wiki replica databases ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ via Toolforge Access on wiki database dump files ✔ ✔ Write and run bots ✔ ✔ ✔ if not viable on Toolforge Run web services ✔ ✔ if not viable on Toolforge Build tools to improve Wikimedia projects ✔ ✔ if not viable on Toolforge Schedule or run continuous jobs ✔ ✔ if not viable on Toolforge Work with co-maintainers and co-admins ✔ ✔ Need your own web domain ✔ Install apt packages not provided by Debian or the Wikimedia Foundation ✔ Administer your own virtual server ✔ Retrieve Wikimedia project data with high QPS using Wikimedia Enterprise APIs ✔ ✔ ✔ Platform / Environment web browser web browser terminal terminal User knowledge curious—advanced curious—advanced intermediate—advanced advanced Before you start To use Cloud Services products, you must first create a Wikimedia account and a developer account. Learn more 🎬 Video: Wikimedia Cloud Services introduction (2019) 📣 Slides: An introduction to Cloud Services presentation (2019) 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) Retrieved from "https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Cloud_Services_introduction&oldid=2391188" Categories: OverviewsCloud Services This page was last edited on 16 March 2026, at 15:06. 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