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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>Toolserver administration was primarily done by [[m:User:Kate|River]]. [[m:User:Elian|Elian]] was in charge of approving accounts and being the primary contact point between the Toolserver and Wikimedia Deutschland. River created the actual accounts and administered the server.<br />
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* June 2004: Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. (the German Wikimedia chapter) is founded.<ref>http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Deutschland</ref><br />
* August 2005: [[m:User:JeLuF|JeLuF]] arranges for [[w:Sun Microsystems|Sun Microsystems]] to donate a V40z server (later named zedler<ref>https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zedler&oldid=60839</ref>) for use at that year's Wikimania in Frankfurt.<br />
*:After the conference, Mark was supposed to be taking the server home (and use it as a coffee table until the next data center visit). However, [[m:User:Notafish|Notafish]] (organizer of Wikimania) needed the server available for a little bit more, and took it home herself.<br />
* September 2005: The server is liberated from [[m:User:Notafish|Notafish]]'s home, and installed by her and Mark at Kennisnet in Amsterdam<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20100619050349/https://wiki.wikked.net/wiki/Trips_to_Zedler</ref>, where it becomes the first "tools server"<br />
* January 2006: [[m:User:DaB.|DaB.]] takes over from Elian as the Toolserver contact at Wikimedia Deutschland.<br />
* April 2006: a disk array (purchased in January) is added to <code>zedler</code> to provide more space for the database, and improve performance.<br />
* June 2006: <code>hemlock</code> is donated by Sun to the Wikimedia Foundation, and becomes the "login server". zedler is only used for databases.<br />
* June 2007: <code>yarrow</code> is installed as a new server to handle the s1 and s3 clusters<br />
* June 2008: after <code>hemlock</code> becomes increasingly overloaded, <code>nightshade</code> is installed as a replacement login server, and <code>hemlock</code> becomes the web server<br />
* March 2009: two new servers are installed: <code>rosemary</code>, a new database for the s1 cluster, and <code>wolfsbane</code>, a new web server to replace the again overloaded <code>hemlock</code>.<br />
* June 2009: Three servers are added to the Toolserver cluster: <code>cassini</code> (for [[w:OpenStreetMap|OpenStreetMap]]-related work), <code>hyacinth</code> (intended to become the new /home NFS server), and <code>daphne</code> (intended to become the server for the S2 databases).<br />
* May 2010: <code>ortelius</code> is set up as a redundant web server.<br />
<code>vandale</code> was donated by Kennisnet for the Wikimedia Foundation as part of the original donation by Kennisnet of rack space, servers, and bandwidth. It was originally intended to be a database server, but then was borrowed from the Foundation and used for the Toolserver as a _________.<br />
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<!-- TO DO:<br />
-- yarrow and vandale history<br />
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flyingparchment: currently the s1/s3 database, but shortly it will be s3 only<br />
flyingparchment: in july we moved s1 (enwiki) to vandale since yarrow was full<br />
flyingparchment: but apparently we moved it back at some point, i don't know what happened there<br />
flyingparchment: oh, i know... we bought a larger array for yarrow and moved its old one to zedler<br />
Marybelle: Hold on, where did vandale come from?<br />
flyingparchment: it was originally meant to be a database server at knams but never was, then wikimedia did something with it, then we borrowed it for the toolserver<br />
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-- history of the roots<br />
jeronim?<br />
wegge<br />
gmaxwell<br />
werdna<br />
river<br />
dab.<br />
duesentrieb<br />
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* history prior from june 2009 to may 2010 is probably missing some pieces<br />
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