Hello Travis, We will be happy to help you setup this workshop, just a few notes:
As you mention, the participants will have to create a wikimedia developer account, and request the toolforge membership before the session (essentially follow the quickstart you mentioned [1]). We can also try to speed up the process, so if you notify us when the users create the accounts (ex. on irc #wikimedia-cloud channel), we can get them approved as soon as one of us starts working that day. You can create a specific tool for all the participants (create a new tool, then add members), or each participant can create their own tool. The only thing we ask from you is to disable the tools that you created during the workshop if they are not needed anymore to free up resources. All this can be done in a self-service manner though the UI (see [2] and [3]). Feel free also to request assistance on the irc channel the day of the event, if any of us is around (usually around UTC 09:00 - UTC 23:00, other community members might be able to help too out of those hours) or other channels if too for more asynchronous help (see [4]). [1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Quickstart [2] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Tool_accounts#Add_or_remove_maintainers [3] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Tool_accounts#Delete_a_tool_account [4] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge#Communication_and_support Thanks On Wed, Mar 25, 2026 at 11:20 AM Travis Briggs via Cloud < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > The Bay Area Wikipedians User Group organizers (BAWUG: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bay_Area_Wikipedians_User_Group), is in > the early stages of planning a satellite "hackathon" to coincide with the > main one in Milan in May. > > As part of the planning, I'm thinking about doing more of a "beginner's > workshop" type format, where there is a lot of hands on training and we > work as a group on one or two projects. This is in contrast to the normal > hackathon format where you give suggestions then set a bunch of people > loose to work individually and in teams on a variety of projects. > > To be clear, we're anticipating 10 or less attendees, with almost no > experience in Wikimedia development (but still developers of at least > moderate other experience) > > Anyways, I was wondering if there's any capacity for us to have a > "sandbox" type toolforge project, where we can get our > participants onboarded with developer accounts, and they can experiment > with developing and launching some kind of "hello world" tool. I think it > would be a great experience to set up the accounts, the keys, the SSH > tunnels, etc, as well as learning how to query enwiki_p and access other > resources. > > Though looking through the onboarding docs just now (it's been ages since > I've done this process myself and it clearly has changed), it says > "Toolforge membership" can take up to a week for approval? This might not > be an issue because I was already planning to have a "pre-session" for our > workshop a week before the in person event. > > Basically my request comes down to: Can I just go ahead and use the self > service tool account creation workflow ( > https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Tool_accounts#Creating) > with the knowledge that I'm not developing a "real" tool, it's for > educational purposes? > > Thanks, > -Travis > BAWUG Co-organizer > > > _______________________________________________ > Cloud mailing list -- [email protected] > List information: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/cloud.lists.wikimedia.org/ >
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