Hi,
When browsing through [mediawiki]/trunk [1] I see a lot of things that have piled up over the years. Now that we have /trunk/tools [2] and the separate [wikimedia] repository, perhaps some things should be re-organized.
A few examples:
* /trunk/backup: This is the script for generating data dumps for Wikimedia's public wikis. Perhaps move this to /tools or perhaps to trunk of the [wikimedia] repo.
* /trunk/mwdumper: Tool for extracting sets of pages from an MW dump file If this works for regular mediawiki dumps, probably a good one to be moved to /tools
* /trunk/lucene-search-2: Lucene-search 2.1: search extension for MediaWiki Sounds like something that should be in a /libs/ directory of /trunk/extensions/MWSearch or something
* /trunk/wikiSDK: Attempt at creating a developer friendly SDK for MW Again, perfect for /tools probably
* /trunk/wap: Wap Wikipedia. quick and dirty Hack for wap.es.wikipedia.org Doesn't' appear to be used anymore. But since it's used as a fronted to MediaWiki, perhaps go into /tools, or if wikimedia specific, into [wikimedia]
*/trunk/wmfmailadmin: Simple mail account maintenance script. Fairly obvious. [wikimedia]
etc. take a look at the complete list here: http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/
Just mentioning here on the mailing list in case there are some special dirs that needs special treatment before I make a bold move.
-- Krinkle
[1] http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/ [2] http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/tools/ (descriptions copied from the README files and/or the initial commit messages)