On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Indeed the first answers on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Labs/Toolserver_features_wanted_in_Tool_Labs seem to indicate that all tools and services currently on Toolserver will just be trashed and people forced to reinvent them from scratch because a completely different approach is thought to be better.
Toolserver's way of doing things is very individualized. It doesn't promote collaboration, and it leads to tools disappearing when a user's account is disabled.
The model in Labs is fundamentally different. Tools, bots, etc. are meant to be managed by a community, rather than an individual. That isn't to say that tools and bots can't be created and managed in exactly the same way as it is in Toolserver, just that it's highly discouraged.
- Ryan