[Wikimedia-l] Some of Wikipedia's most important tools are broken

Rand McRanderson therandshow at gmail.com
Mon Sep 9 18:30:16 UTC 2013


Maybe it is time to consider taking highly useful but less maintained bots
and adding them to Wikipedia architecture. Wmf can offer (not force) to
take them over.
On Sep 9, 2013 2:22 PM, "Federico Leva (Nemo)" <nemowiki at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sarah Stierch, 09/09/2013 19:26:
>
>> Yeah..I've noticed that with a lot of tools, whether on the toolserver or
>> on labs. The tool I use monthly is:
>>
>> http://tools.wmflabs.org/**glamtools/treeviews/<http://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/treeviews/>
>>
>> I ping Magnus all the time and he does his best to fix any issues and now
>> i
>> just feel like a broken record each month. It is stifling my reports as a
>> Wikipedian in Residence to UNESCO and the Library of Congress :(
>>
>> It's really tough to function without it, and so many other tools anymore.
>>
>
> That's https://bugzilla.wikimedia.**org/show_bug.cgi?id=42259<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42259>
> The lack of basic pageview stats service from WMF has also been briefly
> discussed at http://lists.wikimedia.org/**pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-**
> September/071714.html<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-September/071714.html>
>
> Nemo
>
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