I thought you did not speak about the old Wikimedia Tools Labs (which was extinguishing) but the new farm and that this was for finally adopting a name after the migration. "toolforge" seems very unrelated to this farm, even if it has a central catalog of hosted tools. Why a new domain ? Can't that be compatible wit hthe base domain for all individual tools? Do you intend to do this catalog also for tools that are in fact hosted also in other farms (e.g. on Wikimedia sites, or even GitHub, or in each chapters' domains, and possibly also for Wikia, and other sites using Mediawiki , or Wikimedia wikis such as Wikidata, Commons, and individual lingusitic editions of Wiktionary, possibly also the OSM wiki?)
Your project was not correctly described, so the confusion is understandable, and this should be clearified if you intend to choose a name, because you did not specify the scope of tools that the catalog would cover: is it a companion of the Mediawiki site?
Or will it be even larger, to cover other things than just MediaWiki-based wikis (e.g. other sites used by the WMF or its chapters and parters, running with other CMS systems, such as Phabricator, and even other wiki engines, or online forums, and extensions or bots for interacting with social network?)
2018-03-22 2:07 GMT+01:00 Nick Wilson (Quiddity) nwilson@wikimedia.org:
There is no need or desire for a new interwiki link. The question is just about a potential new name for a single page - the catalog/directory of various tools from various locations. It only has a single URL. (possibly with php URL parameters for search results).
Individual Tools on Toolforge are linked with the existing interwiki prefix [[toolforge:]] and will remain so.
I hope that helps clarify. Don't overcomplicate it! :D
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 3:02 PM, Philippe Verdy verdy_p@wanadoo.fr wrote:
So now I have suggested two alternatives for the interwiki (yes I already said that "th" was used by Thai when I said "NOT WMTH" which is already "Wikimedia Thailand"; there's no confusion between "WMTH" and "WITH" and typos are very unlikely on any keyboard as "I" and "M" keys are far
enough).
- "with:" interwiki and "with.wikimedia.org" domain name (friendly in
wiki
pages if we link to "[[with: Maptool/events]]", for a tool named
"Maptool"
in the Wikimedia Tools Hub and taking some path-encoded parameter
"/events")
- "toolhub: interwiki and "toolhub.wikimedia.org" domain name (but less
friendly in wiki pages if we link to "[[toolhub: Maptool/events]]" for
the
same tool in a sentence, and it is longer to type)
In both cases the expanded name "Wikimedia Tools Hub" can be freely adapted/translated, the short interwiki or the subdomain or the unique abbreviation "WiTH" contains the "Tools Hub" meaning.
So I made two proposals on the same concept, list them and post a voting page once you have more naming suggestions.
2018-03-21 22:52 GMT+01:00 James Hare jhare@wikimedia.org:
So I'm not a lawyer but I don't think there are trademark issues with "Toolhub" as a name. Assuming that's the case, I think it would be
better if
we used the name consistently, with "toolhub:" as the interwiki prefix. ("th:" is used by Thai.)
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