[Wikimedia-l] Re: Toolhub 1.0 is launched! Discover software tools used at Wikimedia

[Anupam Dutta]

Is the tool superb ?? There is no knowing, because unless one knows the
name of the software, one cannot locate it.

So, immediately version 1.1 is needed where we can search by Category...

Otherwise, it is useless.

Anupamdutta73


On Fri, Oct 15, 2021, 03:06 Samuel Klein  wrote:

> This is priceless.  Thank you Hay for leading the way :) and thanks to ev
> e ry one who made this happen.
>
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 4:04 PM MusikAnimal  wrote:
>
>> A long time coming! The interface looks amazing and seems very well
>> thought out. It's nice to have an official, single go-to for all things
>> tools, user scripts, gadgets, etc. Huge thanks and kudos to everyone
>> involved!
>>
>> ~ MA
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 3:37 PM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga <
>> galder...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks, Brigit, for this hub, it is great to have it! I have tried and
>>> can't find any way to look for tools that are not nominated as "Coolest
>>> Tool Award" besides looking for name. Is there a way for searching by
>>> categories?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Galder
>>> --
>>> *From:* Birgit Müller 
>>> *Sent:* Thursday, October 14, 2021 4:58 PM
>>> *To:* wikitech-l ;
>>> wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org ;
>>> Wikimedia Cloud Services general discussion and support <
>>> cl...@lists.wikimedia.org>; wikid...@lists.wikimedia.org <
>>> wikid...@lists.wikimedia.org>; wikitech-ambassad...@lists.wikimedia.org
>>> 
>>> *Subject:* [Wikimedia-l] Toolhub 1.0 is launched! Discover software
>>> tools used at Wikimedia
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> We are happy to announce the launch of Toolhub
>>>  – a community-authored catalogue that
>>> aims to make software tools
>>>  used in
>>> the Wikimedia movement discoverable to everyone.
>>>
>>> Community developed tools – including web applications, bots, gadgets,
>>> user scripts, lua modules, and more – play a significant role in the
>>> Wikimedia projects. These software applications address a wide range of use
>>> cases including finding bad faith edits and other content curation, bulk
>>> editing, collecting statistical information, creating special citations,
>>> and much more. About ⅓ of all edits are made by bots and tools. In
>>> addition, semi-automated edits are helped by user scripts, gadgets, and
>>> other editing assistance tools that run from the user's local computer or
>>> directly inside the wikis. There are thousands of tools available, but how
>>> can you find them?
>>>
>>> With Toolhub, you can document and find tools
>>> , promote their use in your
>>> wiki community, and help improve them by contributing data. You can create
>>> and share lists of tools relevant to your work - for example, for GLAM
>>> tools, or for wiki projects such as Women in Red.
>>>
>>> This first release provides a core set of functionalities
>>> , and contains an
>>> initial data set of about 1500 tools. Most of the initial tools in the
>>> catalog are imported from the same data files developers have created for 
>>> Hay's
>>> Directory  which has been a major
>>> inspiration for Toolhub.
>>>
>>> Toolhub serves developers and users of tools alike. It is part of our
>>> efforts to improve the infrastructure and services for technical
>>> contributors, captured under one of Technology’s top level objectives in
>>> the FY 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 annual plans: Tech Community Building
>>> .
>>> We hope to continue conversations with developers and users of tools,
>>> plan to improve Toolhub, and to further expand the functionality.
>>>
>>> A collaborative system and open developer platform
>>>
>>> Toolhub is built as an API driven platform that makes it possible to
>>> extend and remix the catalogue, and to make collecting and reusing
>>> information about tools as open and collaborative as we can. Everything
>>> that can be done interactively with the Toolhub website can also be done
>>> remotely through the API. We would love to hear from technical
>>> contributors interested in using the Toolhub API
>>>  to build new
>>> tools that make new ways to add or consume information from Toolhub's
>>> catalog.
>>>
>>> Our decision record
>>>  and weekly
>>> progress reports
>>>  on Meta
>>> provide more insights in technical implementation details and decisions
>>> made throughout the development process. The Toolhub/About page
>>>  provides information on
>>> project origin, research, use cases, data model, and roadmap. This recording
>>> from a 

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Toolhub 1.0 is launched! Discover software tools used at Wikimedia

[Birgit Müller]

Thanks Galder :-) - answers are below:

On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 9:38 PM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga <
galder...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, Brigit, for this hub, it is great to have it! I have tried and
> can't find any way to look for tools that are not nominated as "Coolest
> Tool Award" besides looking for name. Is there a way for searching by
> categories?
>

Today you can try searching for various keywords to find tools in the
catalog (i.e. "Wikidata", "image", "editor", "template" ...). We're
interested in adding support for the community to organize tools in
categories/based on use cases in the future. There are some notes from past
Design Research on that in the Data Model documentation. [0]

Please feel welcome to comment on the talk page if you have further
questions or ideas! [1]

Birgit

[0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Data_model#Tool_use_cases
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Toolhub



>
> Thanks
> Galder
> --
> *From:* Birgit Müller 
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 14, 2021 4:58 PM
> *To:* wikitech-l ;
> wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org ;
> Wikimedia Cloud Services general discussion and support <
> cl...@lists.wikimedia.org>; wikid...@lists.wikimedia.org <
> wikid...@lists.wikimedia.org>; wikitech-ambassad...@lists.wikimedia.org <
> wikitech-ambassad...@lists.wikimedia.org>
> *Subject:* [Wikimedia-l] Toolhub 1.0 is launched! Discover software tools
> used at Wikimedia
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> We are happy to announce the launch of Toolhub
>  – a community-authored catalogue that
> aims to make software tools
>  used in
> the Wikimedia movement discoverable to everyone.
>
> Community developed tools – including web applications, bots, gadgets,
> user scripts, lua modules, and more – play a significant role in the
> Wikimedia projects. These software applications address a wide range of use
> cases including finding bad faith edits and other content curation, bulk
> editing, collecting statistical information, creating special citations,
> and much more. About ⅓ of all edits are made by bots and tools. In
> addition, semi-automated edits are helped by user scripts, gadgets, and
> other editing assistance tools that run from the user's local computer or
> directly inside the wikis. There are thousands of tools available, but how
> can you find them?
>
> With Toolhub, you can document and find tools
> , promote their use in your wiki
> community, and help improve them by contributing data. You can create and
> share lists of tools relevant to your work - for example, for GLAM tools,
> or for wiki projects such as Women in Red.
>
> This first release provides a core set of functionalities
> , and contains an
> initial data set of about 1500 tools. Most of the initial tools in the
> catalog are imported from the same data files developers have created for 
> Hay's
> Directory  which has been a major
> inspiration for Toolhub.
>
> Toolhub serves developers and users of tools alike. It is part of our
> efforts to improve the infrastructure and services for technical
> contributors, captured under one of Technology’s top level objectives in
> the FY 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 annual plans: Tech Community Building
> .
> We hope to continue conversations with developers and users of tools, plan
> to improve Toolhub, and to further expand the functionality.
>
> A collaborative system and open developer platform
>
> Toolhub is built as an API driven platform that makes it possible to
> extend and remix the catalogue, and to make collecting and reusing
> information about tools as open and collaborative as we can. Everything
> that can be done interactively with the Toolhub website can also be done
> remotely through the API. We would love to hear from technical
> contributors interested in using the Toolhub API
>  to build new tools
> that make new ways to add or consume information from Toolhub's catalog.
>
> Our decision record
>  and weekly
> progress reports
>  on Meta
> provide more insights in technical implementation details and decisions
> made throughout the development process. The Toolhub/About page
>  provides information on
> project origin, research, use cases, data model, and roadmap. This recording
> from a lightning talk at ‘21 Wikimania
>  gives an overview of the
> main aspects in 10 minutes.
>
> Thank you <3
>
> This project wouldn’t have been possible without the support, 

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Toolhub 1.0 is launched! Discover software tools used at Wikimedia

[Samuel Klein]

This is priceless.  Thank you Hay for leading the way :) and thanks to ev e
ry one who made this happen.

On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 4:04 PM MusikAnimal  wrote:

> A long time coming! The interface looks amazing and seems very well
> thought out. It's nice to have an official, single go-to for all things
> tools, user scripts, gadgets, etc. Huge thanks and kudos to everyone
> involved!
>
> ~ MA
>
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 3:37 PM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga <
> galder...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Brigit, for this hub, it is great to have it! I have tried and
>> can't find any way to look for tools that are not nominated as "Coolest
>> Tool Award" besides looking for name. Is there a way for searching by
>> categories?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Galder
>> --
>> *From:* Birgit Müller 
>> *Sent:* Thursday, October 14, 2021 4:58 PM
>> *To:* wikitech-l ;
>> wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org ;
>> Wikimedia Cloud Services general discussion and support <
>> cl...@lists.wikimedia.org>; wikid...@lists.wikimedia.org <
>> wikid...@lists.wikimedia.org>; wikitech-ambassad...@lists.wikimedia.org <
>> wikitech-ambassad...@lists.wikimedia.org>
>> *Subject:* [Wikimedia-l] Toolhub 1.0 is launched! Discover software
>> tools used at Wikimedia
>>
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> We are happy to announce the launch of Toolhub
>>  – a community-authored catalogue that
>> aims to make software tools
>>  used in
>> the Wikimedia movement discoverable to everyone.
>>
>> Community developed tools – including web applications, bots, gadgets,
>> user scripts, lua modules, and more – play a significant role in the
>> Wikimedia projects. These software applications address a wide range of use
>> cases including finding bad faith edits and other content curation, bulk
>> editing, collecting statistical information, creating special citations,
>> and much more. About ⅓ of all edits are made by bots and tools. In
>> addition, semi-automated edits are helped by user scripts, gadgets, and
>> other editing assistance tools that run from the user's local computer or
>> directly inside the wikis. There are thousands of tools available, but how
>> can you find them?
>>
>> With Toolhub, you can document and find tools
>> , promote their use in your
>> wiki community, and help improve them by contributing data. You can create
>> and share lists of tools relevant to your work - for example, for GLAM
>> tools, or for wiki projects such as Women in Red.
>>
>> This first release provides a core set of functionalities
>> , and contains an
>> initial data set of about 1500 tools. Most of the initial tools in the
>> catalog are imported from the same data files developers have created for 
>> Hay's
>> Directory  which has been a major
>> inspiration for Toolhub.
>>
>> Toolhub serves developers and users of tools alike. It is part of our
>> efforts to improve the infrastructure and services for technical
>> contributors, captured under one of Technology’s top level objectives in
>> the FY 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 annual plans: Tech Community Building
>> .
>> We hope to continue conversations with developers and users of tools,
>> plan to improve Toolhub, and to further expand the functionality.
>>
>> A collaborative system and open developer platform
>>
>> Toolhub is built as an API driven platform that makes it possible to
>> extend and remix the catalogue, and to make collecting and reusing
>> information about tools as open and collaborative as we can. Everything
>> that can be done interactively with the Toolhub website can also be done
>> remotely through the API. We would love to hear from technical
>> contributors interested in using the Toolhub API
>>  to build new
>> tools that make new ways to add or consume information from Toolhub's
>> catalog.
>>
>> Our decision record
>>  and weekly
>> progress reports
>>  on Meta
>> provide more insights in technical implementation details and decisions
>> made throughout the development process. The Toolhub/About page
>>  provides information on
>> project origin, research, use cases, data model, and roadmap. This recording
>> from a lightning talk at ‘21 Wikimania
>>  gives an overview of the
>> main aspects in 10 minutes.
>>
>> Thank you <3
>>
>> This project wouldn’t have been possible without the support, knowledge,
>> ideas and prior work of many. One of the nicest side-effects of a release
>> is that it’s a great 

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Toolhub 1.0 is launched! Discover software tools used at Wikimedia

[MusikAnimal]

A long time coming! The interface looks amazing and seems very well thought
out. It's nice to have an official, single go-to for all things tools, user
scripts, gadgets, etc. Huge thanks and kudos to everyone involved!

~ MA

On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 3:37 PM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga <
galder...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, Brigit, for this hub, it is great to have it! I have tried and
> can't find any way to look for tools that are not nominated as "Coolest
> Tool Award" besides looking for name. Is there a way for searching by
> categories?
>
> Thanks
> Galder
> --
> *From:* Birgit Müller 
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 14, 2021 4:58 PM
> *To:* wikitech-l ;
> wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org ;
> Wikimedia Cloud Services general discussion and support <
> cl...@lists.wikimedia.org>; wikid...@lists.wikimedia.org <
> wikid...@lists.wikimedia.org>; wikitech-ambassad...@lists.wikimedia.org <
> wikitech-ambassad...@lists.wikimedia.org>
> *Subject:* [Wikimedia-l] Toolhub 1.0 is launched! Discover software tools
> used at Wikimedia
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> We are happy to announce the launch of Toolhub
>  – a community-authored catalogue that
> aims to make software tools
>  used in
> the Wikimedia movement discoverable to everyone.
>
> Community developed tools – including web applications, bots, gadgets,
> user scripts, lua modules, and more – play a significant role in the
> Wikimedia projects. These software applications address a wide range of use
> cases including finding bad faith edits and other content curation, bulk
> editing, collecting statistical information, creating special citations,
> and much more. About ⅓ of all edits are made by bots and tools. In
> addition, semi-automated edits are helped by user scripts, gadgets, and
> other editing assistance tools that run from the user's local computer or
> directly inside the wikis. There are thousands of tools available, but how
> can you find them?
>
> With Toolhub, you can document and find tools
> , promote their use in your wiki
> community, and help improve them by contributing data. You can create and
> share lists of tools relevant to your work - for example, for GLAM tools,
> or for wiki projects such as Women in Red.
>
> This first release provides a core set of functionalities
> , and contains an
> initial data set of about 1500 tools. Most of the initial tools in the
> catalog are imported from the same data files developers have created for 
> Hay's
> Directory  which has been a major
> inspiration for Toolhub.
>
> Toolhub serves developers and users of tools alike. It is part of our
> efforts to improve the infrastructure and services for technical
> contributors, captured under one of Technology’s top level objectives in
> the FY 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 annual plans: Tech Community Building
> .
> We hope to continue conversations with developers and users of tools, plan
> to improve Toolhub, and to further expand the functionality.
>
> A collaborative system and open developer platform
>
> Toolhub is built as an API driven platform that makes it possible to
> extend and remix the catalogue, and to make collecting and reusing
> information about tools as open and collaborative as we can. Everything
> that can be done interactively with the Toolhub website can also be done
> remotely through the API. We would love to hear from technical
> contributors interested in using the Toolhub API
>  to build new tools
> that make new ways to add or consume information from Toolhub's catalog.
>
> Our decision record
>  and weekly
> progress reports
>  on Meta
> provide more insights in technical implementation details and decisions
> made throughout the development process. The Toolhub/About page
>  provides information on
> project origin, research, use cases, data model, and roadmap. This recording
> from a lightning talk at ‘21 Wikimania
>  gives an overview of the
> main aspects in 10 minutes.
>
> Thank you <3
>
> This project wouldn’t have been possible without the support, knowledge,
> ideas and prior work of many. One of the nicest side-effects of a release
> is that it’s a great opportunity to thank folks for their time and
> contributions :-)
>
>
>-
>
>Husky , whose Hay's
>Directory  provided the
>foundation for the data model used by Toolhub and inspired 

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Toolhub 1.0 is launched! Discover software tools used at Wikimedia

[Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga]

Thanks, Brigit, for this hub, it is great to have it! I have tried and can't 
find any way to look for tools that are not nominated as "Coolest Tool Award" 
besides looking for name. Is there a way for searching by categories?

Thanks
Galder

From: Birgit Müller 
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2021 4:58 PM
To: wikitech-l ; 
wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org ; Wikimedia 
Cloud Services general discussion and support ; 
wikid...@lists.wikimedia.org ; 
wikitech-ambassad...@lists.wikimedia.org 

Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Toolhub 1.0 is launched! Discover software tools used at 
Wikimedia


Hi All,

We are happy to announce the launch of Toolhub 
– a community-authored catalogue that aims to make software 
tools used in 
the Wikimedia movement discoverable to everyone.


Community developed tools – including web applications, bots, gadgets, user 
scripts, lua modules, and more – play a significant role in the Wikimedia 
projects. These software applications address a wide range of use cases 
including finding bad faith edits and other content curation, bulk editing, 
collecting statistical information, creating special citations, and much more. 
About ⅓ of all edits are made by bots and tools. In addition, semi-automated 
edits are helped by user scripts, gadgets, and other editing assistance tools 
that run from the user's local computer or directly inside the wikis. There are 
thousands of tools available, but how can you find them?


With Toolhub, you can document and find 
tools, promote their use in your wiki 
community, and help improve them by contributing data. You can create and share 
lists of tools relevant to your work - for example, for GLAM tools, or for wiki 
projects such as Women in Red.


This first release provides a core set of 
functionalities, and contains 
an initial data set of about 1500 tools. Most of the initial tools in the 
catalog are imported from the same data files developers have created for Hay's 
Directory which has been a major 
inspiration for Toolhub.


Toolhub serves developers and users of tools alike. It is part of our efforts 
to improve the infrastructure and services for technical contributors, captured 
under one of Technology’s top level objectives in the FY 2020-2021 and 
2021-2022 annual plans: Tech Community 
Building.
 We hope to continue conversations with developers and users of tools, plan to 
improve Toolhub, and to further expand the functionality.


A collaborative system and open developer platform

Toolhub is built as an API driven platform that makes it possible to extend and 
remix the catalogue, and to make collecting and reusing information about tools 
as open and collaborative as we can. Everything that can be done interactively 
with the Toolhub website can also be done remotely through the API. We would 
love to hear from technical contributors interested in using the Toolhub 
API to build new tools 
that make new ways to add or consume information from Toolhub's catalog.


Our decision record 
and weekly progress 
reports on Meta 
provide more insights in technical implementation details and decisions made 
throughout the development process. The Toolhub/About 
page provides information on 
project origin, research, use cases, data model, and roadmap. This recording 
from a lightning talk at ‘21 
Wikimania gives an overview of the 
main aspects in 10 minutes.


Thank you <3

This project wouldn’t have been possible without the support, knowledge, ideas 
and prior work of many. One of the nicest side-effects of a release is that 
it’s a great opportunity to thank folks for their time and contributions :-)


  *   Husky, whose Hay's 
Directory provided the foundation for the 
data model used by Toolhub and inspired some of its features.

  *   Harej, for his invaluable 
contributions in the early stages of the Toolhub project.

  *   Our 'advisory board' - 
Giuseppe (SRE), 
Risker (editor, admin), 
Reedy (Security), 
Keegan (Community 
Relations), and Eran 
(volunteer