<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body><div><div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Tool labs is what you are looking for. It's for people like you who want hosting but don't want to setup a whole project (you can read more about the difference here: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Labs_vs_Tool_labs). Put in your tool request form and it should be accepted within a day. After that you can read some documentation on the tool labs help page (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Tools/Help) to get up and running.<br>Negative24</div></div><div dir="ltr"><hr><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">From: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:goldenring.wp@gmail.com">Golden Ring</a></span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Sent: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">4/5/2015 6:18 PM</span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">To: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:labs-l@lists.wikimedia.org">labs-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a></span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[Labs-l] Labs newb</span><br><br></div>Hi,<br><br>Apologies if this is a dup; I'm not sure it got through the first time.<br><br>I've been thinking recently about how to do recent changes patrol<br>better. I've prototyped a tool, which you can see at<br>http://recent-changes.appspot.com/.<br><br>This is currently implemented on Google AppEngine, basically<br>becausethat's what I had to hand when I set out and already knew<br>something about using. It uses the MediaWiki API to retrieve diffs.<br>This is not ideal for a few reasons, not least because it wouldn't<br>take very heavy use of the tool before I'd have to start paying for<br>it, which would probably mean putting ads on it. I can't be dealing<br>with all that.<br><br>Somewhere on the API pages, it mentioned that it's possible to develop<br>tools in MediaWiki Labs, so here I am. I've read some of the<br>arthitecture and 'getting started' sort of pages on the WikiTech<br>pages, but TBH I'm struggling to get my head around it all. A few<br>specific questions:<br><br>Is Labs the right place to develop this sort of tool as part of the<br>MediaWiki software, instead of as an external tool?<br>I think I need to start a new project for this. Is that right?<br>If so, how do I go about starting a new project?<br>Or should I join the Tools project?<br><br>If I could make a suggestion, it might be worth mentioning labs a bit<br>more prominently on the API pages - I didn't know Labs existed when I<br>set out to develop this tool. Also, a proper 'Getting Started' page,<br>which states simply what you can do with Labs and how to get started<br>doing it, would be great. It's possible it's there and I just haven't<br>found it!<br><br>Regards,<br><br>GoldenRing<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Labs-l mailing list<br>Labs-l@lists.wikimedia.org<br>https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l<br></body></html>