Continued support for the toolforge: interwiki prefix is being tracked at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T247432.
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 09:04 Antonin Delpeuch (lists) < li...@antonin.delpeuch.eu> wrote: > Hi Arturo, > > This is great news! The tool urls will be definitely prettier this way. > > Currently, it is possible to link to a Toolforge-hosted service from a > WMF wiki with the following wikicode: > > [[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/f813407aad/|my link]] > > which links to > > https://tools.wmflabs.org/editgroups/b/OR/f813407aad/ > > Do you have any plans to migrate this to any other syntax? I assume the > new scheme would make it hard, since the tool name and the URL path are > separated. > > Serving permanent redirects to the new URL scheme is a good idea. It is > very important for this editgroups tool as there are millions of links > to it in edit summaries (which are not editable). > > Cheers, > Antonin > > > On 13/04/2020 13:25, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote: > > Hi! > > > > We are happy to announce the new domain 'toolforge.org' is now ready to > be > > adopted by our Toolforge community. > > > > There is a lot of information related to this change in a wikitech page > we have > > for this: > > > > https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Toolforge.org > > > > The most important change you will see happening is a new domain/scheme > for > > Toolforge-hosted webservices: > > > > * from https://tools.wmflabs.org/<toolname>/ > > * to https://<toolname>.toolforge.org/ > > > > A live example of this change can be found in our internal > openstack-browser > > webservice tool: > > > > * legacy URL: https://tools.wmflabs.org/openstack-browser/ > > * new URL: https://openstack-browser.toolforge.org > > > > This domain change is something we have been working on for months > previous to > > this announcement. Part of our work has been to ensure we have a smooth > > transition from the old domain (and URL scheme) to the new canonical one. > > However, we acknowledge the ride might be bumpy for some folks, due to > technical > > challenges or cases we didn't consider when planning this migration. > Please > > reach out intermediately if you find any limitation or failure anywhere > related > > to this change. The wikitech page also contains a section with > information for > > common problems. > > > > You can check now if your webservice needs any specific change by > creating a > > temporal redirection to the new canonical URL: > > > > $ webservice --canonical --backend=kubernetes start [..] > > $ webservice --canonical --backend=gridengine start [..] > > > > The --canonical switch will create a temporal redirect that you can turn > on/off. > > Please use this to check how your webservice behaves with the new > domain/URL > > scheme. If you start the webservice without --canonical, the temporal > redirect > > will be removed. > > > > We aim to introduce permanent redirects for the legacy URLs on > 2020-06-15. We > > expect to keep serving legacy URLs forever, by means of redirections to > the new > > URLs. More information on the redirections can also be found in the > wikitech page. > > > > The toolforge.org domain is finally here! <3 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia Cloud Services mailing list > Cloud@lists.wikimedia.org (formerly lab...@lists.wikimedia.org) > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud
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