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