The Signpost ran a tool-related note in their tech report back in mid-December ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-12-17/Technology_report), suggesting that there's some precedent. If a group of people who run interesting tools get together and show interest, it should be possible to get more visibility?
Regards, Morten On 20 February 2013 11:25, Tim Landscheidt <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
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