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Wikitech is the home of technical documentation for Wikimedia Foundation infrastructure and services. This includes production clusters, Wikimedia Cloud Services, Toolforge hosting, and the Beta Cluster. To edit this wiki, you need a Wikimedia developer account. Wikitech does not use the Wikimedia Unified Login (like on Wikipedia) and does not permit editing without an account.

Cloud Services

Wikimedia Cloud Services (WMCS) provides tools, services, and support to technical contributors who build or run software related to the Wikimedia movement. This includes:

Data Services: analyze and explore Wiki Replicas that contain near-realtime copies of the MediaWiki MariaDB/MySQL databases behind the Wikimedia Foundation wikis (such as Wikipedia). You can query from the Quarry user interface, or access data services directly from within Cloud VPS or Toolforge.
Toolforge: hosting environment for tools (bots, webservices, scheduled jobs) that help maintain and support the Wikimedia Foundation wikis.
Wikimedia Cloud VPS: cloud computing infrastructure where you can administer and run your own servers (powered by OpenStack).

Production

Wikimedia production is the servers, software, and databases that power the live Wikimedia Foundation websites. It is maintained by the Wikimedia Site Reliability Engineering team as well as other teams. This includes:

MediaWiki at WMF: highly-configured deployment of MediaWiki, the free software wiki platform.
Data centers: physical locations where our servers are racked.
Global traffic routing: Wikimedia CDN, as powered by Varnish.

... and vast array of other applications, from Apache Traffic Server to Zookeeper!

To learn how to operate your own MediaWiki site, refer the documentation on mediawiki.org instead.

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 {{Portal list item
-|name=Introduction
+|name=Cloud Services
 |image=File:Wikimedia Cloud Services logo with text.svg
 |alt=Introduction
 |link=Help:Cloud Services introduction
-|description=An overview of the '''Wikimedia Cloud Services''' (WMCS) products and ecosystem.
+|description='''Wikimedia Cloud Services''' (WMCS) provides tools, services, and support to technical contributors who build or run software related to the Wikimedia movement. This includes:
+* '''[[Portal:Data Services|Data Services]]''': analyze and explore Wiki Replicas that contain near-realtime copies of the MediaWiki MariaDB/MySQL databases behind the Wikimedia Foundation wikis (such as Wikipedia). You can query from the Quarry user interface, or access data services directly from within Cloud VPS or Toolforge.
+* '''[[Portal:Toolforge|Toolforge]]''': hosting environment for tools (bots, webservices, scheduled jobs) that help maintain and support the Wikimedia Foundation wikis.
+* '''[[Portal:Cloud VPS|Wikimedia Cloud VPS]]''': cloud computing infrastructure where you can administer and run your own servers (powered by [[w:OpenStack|OpenStack]]).
 }}
 {{Portal list item
-|name=Cloud VPS
+| name = Production
-|image=File:Wikimedia Cloud Services logo.svg
-|alt=Wikimedia Cloud VPS logo
-|link=Portal:Cloud VPS
-|description='''Wikimedia Cloud VPS''' provides a cloud computing infrastructure powered by [[w:OpenStack|OpenStack]] for projects related to the [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia movement|Wikimedia movement]].
-}}
-{{Portal list item
-|name=Toolforge
-|image=File:Toolforge logo.svg
-|alt=Wikimedia Toolforge logo
-|link=Portal:Toolforge
-|description='''Toolforge''' is a hosting environment for developers working on tools (bots, webservices, scheduled jobs) that help maintain and support Wikimedia wikis.
-}}
-{{Portal list item
-|name=Data Services
-|image=File:WMCS data services.svg
-|alt=Data Services logo
-|link=Portal:Data Services
-|description= '''Wiki replicas''' and offerings for analysis, Tool building, and exploration. Both Cloud VPS and Toolforge can be used to access Data Services.
-}}
-{{Portal list item
-| name = Production infrastructure
 | image = File:Wikitech-2021-blue-large-icon.svg
 | alt = Wikitech logo
 | link = Wikimedia infrastructure
-| description = '''Wikimedia's production infrastructure''' is the servers, software, and data that power the real, live Wikimedia websites. It is maintained by the Wikimedia Foundation's [[SRE|Site Reliability Engineering team]] as well as other teams.
+| description = '''Wikimedia production''' is the servers, software, and databases that power the live Wikimedia Foundation websites. It is maintained by the Wikimedia [[SRE|Site Reliability Engineering team]] as well as other teams. This includes:
+* '''[[MediaWiki at WMF]]''': highly-configured deployment of MediaWiki, the free software wiki platform.
+* '''[[Data centers]]''': physical locations where our servers are racked.
+* '''[[Global traffic routing]]''': Wikimedia CDN, as powered by [[Varnish]].
-The core of the production infrastructure is a highly-configured deployment MediaWiki, our open-source wiki application, but it also contains a vast array of other applications, from [[Apache Traffic Server]] to [[Zookeeper]].
+... and vast array of other applications, from Apache Traffic Server to Zookeeper!
-The documentation here covers the specific details of Wikimedia's infrastructure. If you're trying to run your own MediaWiki site, see the general MediaWiki documentation at [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Main Page|mediawiki.org]].
+To learn how to operate your own MediaWiki site, refer the [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Main Page|documentation on mediawiki.org]] instead.
 }}