On 23/06/07, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
On 22/06/07, Monahon, Peter B. Peter.Monahon@uspto.gov wrote:
Peter Blaise asks: Toolserver?
Waaa#1: One frustration is typing any vocabulary word into the search bar at MediaWiki.org and getting ... nothing! However, within the wording of a few page links, I found http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolserver - yes, that's at wikimedia.org, not at mediawiki.org!
This is because the Toolserver is bugger-all to do with MediaWiki; it's a Wikimedia project.
"Bugger-all"? I think that's overstating it. Many of the functions performed by Toolserver tools could be more usefully performed by MediaWiki itself.
* In category since (lists "old" pages in a certain category) * Catmembers (lists members of category + subcats) * categorycount (number of items in a category!!!) * Catgraph (draws a graph of category structure) * CatCroiseur (category intersection) * CatLadder (produces something like breadcrumbs) * MediaSearch (category based search focused on images) * Neue Seiten nach Kategorie (new pages of a category + subcats) * CoCat (another kind of category intersection tool) * Category Tree (shows tree structure of categories - now native MW) * CatScan (category intersection)
These are just the ones that relate to categories. Mostly they fulfill functionality that should be present in MW natively. If you use a wiki with a detailed category structure, some of these tools are definitely going to be useful. Aren't they just like another type of "extension"? I mean they are open source.
Perhaps these tools should in fact be marketed on mediawiki.org?
cheers Brianna