Hello all!
I met some of you at the UK meet-up at Wikimania, but for those who don’t
know me I’m Sammy — I’m a software engineer at the WMF, and on the board of
Wikimedia UK. At Wikimania I made a comment about affiliates keeping a list
of “critical volunteer tools” (i.e. toolforge/etc. tools which are
maintained by volunteers, but crucial to how you operate. Things like
BaGLAMa).
I’d like to get together a list for Wikimedia UK, not only to keep track of
tools which would impact things if they became unmaintained, but also
because I’m currently putting together a talk on “The impact of
unmaintained tools on the Wikimedia Community”.
Does anyone have any examples of;
a) working, critical volunteer tools and/or
b) broken/unmaintained, critical volunteer tools?
I'm also in the "Wiki folk connected to Ireland & the United Kingdom"
telegram group if you'd prefer to chat about this 'in realtime'.
Kind regards,
*Sammy Fox*
*(They/Them)*