[Labs-l] Install tools for production-purpose only

Seb35 seb35wikipedia at gmail.com
Sat Dec 22 18:34:07 UTC 2012


Hi,

I would like to know if it is permitted to install on the Labs tools which  
could be useful for Wikimedia activities but without having in mind to  
develop the tool. I searched a bit on archives of the list and on the  
wiki, but didn’t found anything related.

The specific case is the installation of OpenRefine [1][2] (ex Google  
Refine) useful to manipulate data, for instance GLAM metadata --  
specifically here for a cooperation with a museum in Belgium but it could  
be for any data manipulations.

OpenRefine is a web tool in Java+Python which listens on a specific port.  
It is originally intended to run on the local computer. It seems it don’t  
use many ressources for a single user.

So is there any rules regarding the general case? And if it is  
case-by-case, is there a checklist for a specific tool (security,  
ressources, environment, etc.)?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Refine
[2] https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine

Thanks,
~ Seb35



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