Wikipedia:Wikimedia Labs
It is built from 2012 and by mid-2014 to replace the tool server toolserver.org.
Organization
When Toolserver tools have been developed by a single person, and posted on her account. Difference in the person of the tool server, after six months, all tools by this user have been switched off for security reasons. In some cases, other users took over the programming much-used resource and offered it under their name on to.
This is organized differently on Labs:
- The work plane are any number of thematic Labs projects.
- Each Labs project can contain any number of developers as members. In order for the joint development of new tools is the one relieved the other hand, the maintenance, care and development be continued by incorporated members of the Labs project leaving a volunteer.
- Each Labs project can define users as administrators over simple developers. Administrators have access to all resources and files. You can decide which developer should be a member of the Labs project which files get write protection which resources are to be allocated, and other safety issues.
- Developers can modify files and use them to do new developments and trials.
- Anyone can register as a member (mw: Developer access) and has to be confirmed as a developer. Then you can establish your own Labs projects or offer existing Labs projects.
- They usually have no way files a Labs project to read.
- Source codes are managed by the Gerrit system - [[ gerrit :]] - this is accessible worldwide to anyone.
- End-users can participate in beta to test new techniques.