Hi David, I developed the tool for last year. I would indeed like to develop it further, or even rewrite it from scratch if other developers want to join in. Last year there was a lot of interest in this but the timeline was short and most potential contributors could not promise to stick to a deadline, so it was agreed that this year we would develop the tool together. Now is indeed a good time to start if you have time.
Regarding the features, almost everything on the list at this moment already exists in the existing tool, but there are a bunch of other unfulfilled feature requests that I have. I realize that the lack of documentation or a config GUI don't help users with configuration, for example some of the config can only be done through PHPMyAdmin/other MySQL tool/direct queries. If you want to start developing this year's tool with more orderly code, a doc, a config GUI, etc., I'll be happy to assist even if it means that my old tool which took a lot of time to write and improve would go out of use—or you can use the existing tool and build it up. Keep in mind (and I can't emphasize this enough) that it's *not* too early to be developing it now—it's exactly the right time. If we wait till August-ish like last year, I am certain that we won't get much done. Cheers, —Ynhockey. On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 7:43 PM, David Narvaez <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi all, > > A couple of weeks ago I was talking with Lodewikj about the idea of having > a configurable Jury Tool that would suit the need of most of the > participating countries. While it may seem early to talk about the Jury > Tool for countries that are participating for the first time, the countries > that are already experienced in the contest can give valuable input about > what features should this tool have. > > We are already collecting information in this link > > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013/JuryTool > > and I would like to get in touch with people that developed jury tools for > previous contests so that we can start a discussion about features. > > David E. Narvaez > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org >
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