Toolserver:Account approval process

Account request and approval

Before you request an account

 * The toolservers are under the legal responsibility of Wikimedia Deutschland, and their use is therefore governed by EU and German law.
 * Read the rules to see if your project fits the Toolserver's scope and restrictions.
 * Read the account approval policy to see how we decide who will get an account.

Note: 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.

Request process

 * 1) go to http://toolserver.org/accountrequest - this will take you to the toolserver's ticket management system, JIRA.
 * 2) when asked to create a JIRA account do so. Use the nickname you would like to use as a login name for the toolserver later.
 * 3) After creating the account, go to http://toolserver.org/accountrequest again - you will now see a form for requesting account creation.
 * 4) Fill in the form
 * 5) * In the summary field, write a short summary of what you want to do on the toolserver.
 * 6) * In the Description field:
 * 7) **Write what you plan to do on the toolserver, how you plan to do it, and what resources you expect to use.
 * 8) **Give a short overview of your skills with a Linux/Unix command line, web applications and programming in general.
 * 9) **Provide a quick description of your involvement with communities relevant to the toolserver, e.g. your activities/status on a Wikimedia wiki, if any.
 * 10) **For research projects, describe the context of the research and give the sponsoring organization/institution.
 * 11) Submit the form
 * 12) After a few days or weeks, you will be told if your request was accepted.
 * 13) If your request was accepted, you will be asked to provide your SSH public key.
 * 14) After some more days (or sometimes weeks), your account will be created. Please try if you can log in. Re-open the account request ticket (of file a support request) if you can't.
 * 15) Re-read the rules and follow them. Come and say hi on IRC.