Erik Moeller wrote:
is there still an up-to-date, canonical list of
toolserver projects?
People sometimes get confused about what a "Toolserver project" is. It's
easy enough to get a list of Toolserver user accounts (`ls /home`), though I
don't imagine that's what you want and such a list doesn't account for
expired accounts. If you're looking for a list of multi-maintainer
projects,[1] you can walk through /home/project/ to get a rough idea of
what's there. Interiot used to run a "TStoc" (Toolserver table of contents)
tool,[2] but his account has been expired for quite some time (and at some
point the status of web tools of expired accounts changed). I don't believe
anyone has created a replacement or equivalent tool. The Toolserver wiki
also has documentation for some tools, but it's rather limited.[3] The
English Wikipedia and Meta-Wiki have further limited documentation for some
specific tools scattered among them as well.[4][5]
Generally speaking, your best bet for discovering a tool is asking on this
mailing list, in #wikimedia-toolserver, or on the technical village pump[6]
if a tool to do a particular task exists and praying that somebody notices
your question and has an acceptable answer.
Obviously this situation could use improvement.
MZMcBride
[1]
https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Multi-maintainer_projects
[2]
http://toolserver.org/~interiot/cgi-bin/tstoc
[3]
https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Category:Tools
[4]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Toolserver
[5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Toolserver
[6]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29