Silke Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > I was thinking about the list of tools a bit more... In my opinion, this > collection of tools should be more visible to the world! There is so > much work and knowledge in there and partially you really have to dig to > find them... > There is this plan to create/improve Labs/Tool Labs so that tools can be > shared with others more easily. So one very important thing is to *know* > about existing tools.
> How about dragging these tools into the spotlight? (The ones on the > toolserver as well as the ones already living in Labs.) The other day I > heard the proposal from a community member to have featured tools in a > visible place, e.g. a "tool of the month" or even of the week. I like > the idea! It could shortly present a tool, what it does, where to find > it and the person(s) behind. > What do you think of it? The first place that came to my mind where The > Signpost and/or German language Kurier where we could suggest this > topic. I'll be afk for the next few days and I'd be glad to read some > opinions when back. :) I've suggested a while back (https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/TS-1271) to import the old Toolserver blog/comments to blog.wikimedia.de and then post status and ongoing project reports there. It has a different audience, probably more (potential) donors :-), but showing them what "some server in Amsterdam" is used for isn't a bad idea IMHO. amaranth needs to be fixed before that, though :-). Tim _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list ([email protected]) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
