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)*
Hi Sammy!
Thanks for this - this has been an ongoing concern for partners and residents around image stats in particular. If I remember correctly WREN https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_in_Residence_Exchange_Network did a lot of work on this a while back, including a panel at Wikimania 2023, which might give you some pointers.
Sara
On Wed, 25 Sept 2024 at 11:15, Sammy Fox sam@theresnotime.co.uk wrote:
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*
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For *working, critical volunteer tools*, Montage https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Montage is an excellent tool and as far as I know is actively maintained by volunteers. It is extremely useful for judging photography contests and gets a lot of use by organisations across the movement.
On Wed, 25 Sept 2024 at 11:15, Sammy Fox sam@theresnotime.co.uk wrote:
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*
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The Outreach dashboard seems to have been down all morning. At least I can't get it to load...
I think moves afoot to make that more robust?
Thanks
Nick
From: Richard Nevell richard.nevell@wikimedia.org.uk Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2024 5:32 PM To: UK Wikimedia mailing list wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Re: Critical volunteer tools
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On Wed, 25 Sept 2024 at 11:15, Sammy Fox <sam@theresnotime.co.ukmailto:sam@theresnotime.co.uk> wrote: 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'.
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Hi Sammy,
Have you seen these global efforts to list/prioritise volunteer tools? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Content_Partnerships_Hub/Software/Tool_prior... https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_CSI
Here's a link to documentation of the WREN session that Sara mentioned: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/August_2023/Contents/WRE...
Fiona
On Wed, 25 Sept 2024 at 11:15, Sammy Fox sam@theresnotime.co.uk wrote:
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*
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