[Labs-l] Projects marked for death

[Tim Landscheidt]

Andrew Bogott <abogott at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Ok, wait, now I'm really confused.  I have all these project
> pages[1] which were automatically created by wikitech when
> new projects were created.  And then there's the xtools
> page[2]... it shows up as part of that symantic query but
> the history implies that it was made by hand by user
> JackPotte in such a way that it closely resembles a project
> page but actually isn't.

>>> What the heck?
>>> [...]
>> There were never guidelines on where to document individual
>> tools, so I put the documentation on mine at
>> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Tools/Tools/dbreps
>> and
>> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Tools/Tools/wikilint.
>> I think that would work for xTools as well.

>> Other (better? :-)) suggestions?
> I think that the place you documented is fine, but 'There
> were never guidelines' is a totally valid complaint -- [...]

Come to think of it, I believe
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Xtools was
created around the time when the names of the service groups
in "Manage Projects" linked to
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:$SERVICEGROUP.
So xTools's approach was probably just "blueing a red link"
:-).

Tim