Thanks, Brigit, for this hub, it is great to have it! I have tried and can't find any
way to look for tools that are not nominated as "Coolest Tool Award" besides
looking for name. Is there a way for searching by categories?
Thanks
Galder
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Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Toolhub 1.0 is launched! Discover software tools used at
Wikimedia
Hi All,
We are happy to announce the launch of
Toolhub<https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/> – a
community-authored catalogue that aims to make software
tools<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub#What_is_a_%22tool%22?> used in the
Wikimedia movement discoverable to everyone.
Community developed tools – including web applications, bots, gadgets, user scripts, lua
modules, and more – play a significant role in the Wikimedia projects. These software
applications address a wide range of use cases including finding bad faith edits and other
content curation, bulk editing, collecting statistical information, creating special
citations, and much more. About ⅓ of all edits are made by bots and tools. In addition,
semi-automated edits are helped by user scripts, gadgets, and other editing assistance
tools that run from the user's local computer or directly inside the wikis. There are
thousands of tools available, but how can you find them?
With Toolhub, you can document and find
tools<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub>ub>, promote their use in your wiki
community, and help improve them by contributing data. You can create and share lists of
tools relevant to your work - for example, for GLAM tools, or for wiki projects such as
Women in Red.
This first release provides a core set of
functionalities<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Roadmap>ap>, and contains an
initial data set of about 1500 tools. Most of the initial tools in the catalog are
imported from the same data files developers have created for Hay's
Directory<https://hay.toolforge.org/directory/> which has been a major inspiration
for Toolhub.
Toolhub serves developers and users of tools alike. It is part of our efforts to improve
the infrastructure and services for technical contributors, captured under one of
Technology’s top level objectives in the FY 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 annual plans: Tech
Community
Building<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology/Annual_Plan…ng>.
We hope to continue conversations with developers and users of tools, plan to improve
Toolhub, and to further expand the functionality.
A collaborative system and open developer platform
Toolhub is built as an API driven platform that makes it possible to extend and remix the
catalogue, and to make collecting and reusing information about tools as open and
collaborative as we can. Everything that can be done interactively with the Toolhub
website can also be done remotely through the API. We would love to hear from technical
contributors interested in using the Toolhub
API<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Toolhub#API-use> to build new tools that
make new ways to add or consume information from Toolhub's catalog.
Our decision
record<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Decision_record> and
weekly progress
reports<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Progress_reports> on
Meta provide more insights in technical implementation details and decisions made
throughout the development process. The Toolhub/About
page<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/About> provides information on project
origin, research, use cases, data model, and roadmap. This recording from a lightning talk
at ‘21
Wikimania<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2hNm7bKjDo> gives an overview of
the main aspects in 10 minutes.
Thank you <3
This project wouldn’t have been possible without the support, knowledge, ideas and prior
work of many. One of the nicest side-effects of a release is that it’s a great opportunity
to thank folks for their time and contributions :-)
*
Husky<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Husky>ky>, whose Hay's
Directory<https://hay.toolforge.org/directory/> provided the foundation for the data
model used by Toolhub and inspired some of its features.
*
Harej<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Harej>ej>, for his invaluable
contributions in the early stages of the Toolhub project.
* Our 'advisory board' -
Giuseppe<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:GLavagetto_(WMF)> (SRE),
Risker<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Risker> (editor, admin),
Reedy<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Reedy_(WMF)> (Security),
Keegan<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan_(WMF)> (Community Relations), and
Eran<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%9F> (volunteer developer
& RTL expert) for providing their perspectives on key questions throughout the
development process.
* Giuseppe,
Kunal<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Legoktm>tm>,
Manuel<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MArostegui_(WMF)>F)>,
Effie<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:EMouzeli_(WMF)>F)>,
Cole<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CWhite_(WMF)> and
Emanuele<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ERocca_(WMF)> from SRE and
Majavah<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Majavah> for their help on finding and
resolving deployment issues.
*
Dan<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Dzduvall> and
Jeena<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:JHuneidi_(WMF)> from Release Engineering
for help with build tooling.
*
Guillaume<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:GLederrey_(WMF)> and the rest of
the Search Platform team for supporting our search index needs.
* Manuel for supporting our database needs.
*
Niklas<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nlaxstrom-WMF> and the whole
translatewiki.net<https://translatewiki.net/> community for help with localization
and internationalization.
*
Rita<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:RHo_(WMF)>F)>,
Olga<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:OTichonova_(WMF)>F)>,
Alex<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:AHollender_(WMF)>F)>, and
Matthew<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MWilliams_(WMF)> from the Product
Design<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Design> team for their feedback on the Toolhub
user interface.
*
Scott<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SBassett_(WMF)> from the Security
team for our security readiness review.
*
Amire<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Amire80>80>, Kunal, Eran, Reedy, and Dan
for contributing code to the project.
*
Ricordisamoa<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ricordisamoa>oa>,
Quim<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Qgil-WMF>MF>, and the people participating in
conversations on
wikitech-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.…
for
T115650<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115650> which inspired this whole
project.
* Finally, a huge thanks to all the folks who gave input and feedback on the talk
page, in Phabricator, and at sessions - this is really appreciated!
We hope that this new resource will be fun to explore, inspire you with new ideas, and
ultimately be useful for your work.
Feedback, bug reports, ideas and questions are more than welcome on the talk page of the
project<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Toolhub>ub>, or in
Phabricator<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/3224/>4/>. Bryan (tech
lead) & Seve (our new Product Manager) will be there to chat with interested folks and
help with any questions. We are looking forward to evolving this project step-by-step and
jointly with everyone!
Birgit – on behalf of Technical Engagement & our Toolhub project team
--
Birgit Müller (she/her)
Director of Technical Engagement
Wikimedia
Foundation<https://wikimediafoundation.org/>