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)