[Labs-l] Building a collaborative Tools directory

[Ricordisamoa]

Il 06/03/2015 12:30, Tim Landscheidt ha scritto:
> (anonymous) wrote:
>
>> tools.wmflabs.org only covers tools hosted on Wikimedia
>> Labs, while Hay's Directory also covers gadgets, self-hosted
>> tools, etc.
>> The latter also supports properties such as "title",
>> "keywords", "author", "repository", and a nice search
>> feature, while the former doesn't.
>> [...]
> Why should tools.wmflabs.org cover tools /not/ hosted on
> Wikimedia Tools?

It shouldn't, and that's why - IMHO - we need a broader list.

>
> Also, and I think I've written it somewhere before, in my
> experience I rarely use such tool lists (however you want to
> define "tool").  I usually have a goal, and look for what
> other users use(d) to achieve that goal.  This is the equiv-
> alent to Google's PageRank: Popular tools that increase pro-
> ductivity bubble up.

That's usually true, but sometimes tool authors don't manage to reach 
their potential users.

>
> Tim
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