Wikipedia:Wikimedia Labs
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| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Required for developers only |
| Users | 1,464+ |
| Launched | June 3, 2011 |
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was designed to give volunteer software developers a place to write and test software for WMF operations with the goal being to increase the volunteers helping maintain the WMF's infrastructure. It was opened for beta testing to a limited number of users in October 2011. After several months of testing, the service was opened to the general public in April 2012.
The project uses OpenStack to provide developers with instances to help them debug and test software updates and changes. Each instance is a virtual environment that can be shared with others. This allows developers to test configurations before they are deployed to the production environment.
Anybody is allowed to on , but all software must be released under a free license per . Related help can be found at .
Some users migrated their tools to WMFLabs early, the full-scale migration process began in June 2013 and was expected to be complete by December 2013 with everything completed by June 2014 when items on the toolserver would be deleted. Final decommissioning of the toolserver was on July 1, 2014.
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