On 23/06/07, Rob Church <robchur(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 22/06/07, Monahon, Peter B.
<Peter.Monahon(a)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
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