Things like this would be considered a semi-production tool. We only prohibit running things in a production way like wikis or something that should live in production because it would need to have production like uptime (like something critical to running the sites or associated processes).
If others may wish to use this for tools, it may make sense to run this in the webtools project. - Ryan On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Seb35 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know if it is permitted to install on the Labs tools which > could be useful for Wikimedia activities but without having in mind to > develop the tool. I searched a bit on archives of the list and on the wiki, > but didn’t found anything related. > > The specific case is the installation of OpenRefine [1][2] (ex Google > Refine) useful to manipulate data, for instance GLAM metadata -- > specifically here for a cooperation with a museum in Belgium but it could > be for any data manipulations. > > OpenRefine is a web tool in Java+Python which listens on a specific port. > It is originally intended to run on the local computer. It seems it don’t > use many ressources for a single user. > > So is there any rules regarding the general case? And if it is > case-by-case, is there a checklist for a specific tool (security, > ressources, environment, etc.)? > > [1] > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Google_Refine<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Refine> > [2] > https://github.com/OpenRefine/**OpenRefine<https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine> > > Thanks, > ~ Seb35 > > ______________________________**_________________ > Labs-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/labs-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l> >
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