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Consolidate Cloud Services docs content about account setup
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Too many Cloud Services docs contain instructions for setting up accounts; this should all be streamlined into one authoritative source, probably https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Create_a_Wikimedia_developer_account or https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Getting_Started. If necessary, content can be transcluded from there into other pages.

So far I have found the following pages:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Cloud_VPS_user_roles_and_rights
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Accessing_Cloud_VPS_instances
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Getting_Started
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Create_a_Wikimedia_developer_account
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Quickstart

Also: as of Sept 2023, the actual landing page for creating a developer account is https://idm.wikimedia.org/signup/

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TBurmeister changed the task status from Open to In Progress.Sep 22 2023, 7:03 PM
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Created https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Account_setup and made revisions to all the aforementioned pages. The Toolforge account creation process is still convoluted, so the instructions at Toolforge/Quickstart are not great. Changing the process is on the agenda for the next Toolforge workgroup meeting, and is out of scope for this docs task (though if the process changes the doc should be updated to be simpler and clearer).