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
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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<https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/> 
– a community-authored catalogue that aims to make software 
tools<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub#What_is_a_%22tool%22?> 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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub>, 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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Roadmap>, 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<https://hay.toolforge.org/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<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology/Annual_Plans/ERF_OKR:_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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Toolhub#API-use> to build new tools 
that make new ways to add or consume information from Toolhub's catalog.


Our decision record<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Decision_record> 
and weekly progress 
reports<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Progress_reports> on Meta 
provide more insights in technical implementation details and decisions made 
throughout the development process. The Toolhub/About 
page<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/About> provides information on 
project origin, research, use cases, data model, and roadmap. This recording 
from a lightning talk at ‘21 
Wikimania<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2hNm7bKjDo> 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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Husky>, whose Hay's 
Directory<https://hay.toolforge.org/directory/> provided the foundation for the 
data model used by Toolhub and inspired some of its features.

  *   Harej<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Harej>, for his invaluable 
contributions in the early stages of the Toolhub project.

  *   Our 'advisory board' - 
Giuseppe<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:GLavagetto_(WMF)> (SRE), 
Risker<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Risker> (editor, admin), 
Reedy<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Reedy_(WMF)> (Security), 
Keegan<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan_(WMF)> (Community 
Relations), and Eran<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%9F> 
(volunteer developer & RTL expert) for providing their perspectives on key 
questions throughout the development process.

  *   Giuseppe, Kunal<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Legoktm>, 
Manuel<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MArostegui_(WMF)>, 
Effie<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:EMouzeli_(WMF)>, 
Cole<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CWhite_(WMF)> and 
Emanuele<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ERocca_(WMF)> from SRE and 
Majavah<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Majavah> for their help on finding 
and resolving deployment issues.

  *   Dan<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Dzduvall> and 
Jeena<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:JHuneidi_(WMF)> from Release 
Engineering for help with build tooling.

  *   Guillaume<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:GLederrey_(WMF)> and the 
rest of the Search Platform team for supporting our search index needs.

  *   Manuel for supporting our database needs.

  *   Niklas<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nlaxstrom-WMF> and the whole 
translatewiki.net<https://translatewiki.net/> community for help with 
localization and internationalization.

  *   Rita<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:RHo_(WMF)>, 
Olga<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:OTichonova_(WMF)>, 
Alex<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:AHollender_(WMF)>, and 
Matthew<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MWilliams_(WMF)> from the Product 
Design<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Design> team for their feedback on the 
Toolhub user interface.

  *   Scott<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SBassett_(WMF)> from the 
Security team for our security readiness review.

  *   Amire<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Amire80>, Kunal, Eran, Reedy, 
and Dan for contributing code to the project.

  *   Ricordisamoa<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ricordisamoa>, 
Quim<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Qgil-WMF>, and the people 
participating in conversations on 
wikitech-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/KQ2KX4QW23TSIHS2NV4SXQKYK7J5A4JL/#6FSJO32PAHWBJZYMAB46WAZPZIP3H6FJ>
 for T115650<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115650> which inspired this 
whole project.

  *   Finally, a huge thanks to all the folks who gave input and feedback on 
the talk page, in Phabricator, and at sessions - this is really appreciated!


We hope that this new resource will be fun to explore, inspire you with new 
ideas, and ultimately be useful for your work.


Feedback, bug reports, ideas and questions are more than welcome on the talk 
page of the project<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Toolhub>, or in 
Phabricator<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/3224/>. Bryan (tech 
lead) & Seve (our new Product Manager) will be there to chat with interested 
folks and help with any questions. We are looking forward to evolving this 
project step-by-step and jointly with everyone!


Birgit – on behalf of Technical Engagement & our Toolhub project team


--
Birgit Müller (she/her)
Director of Technical Engagement

Wikimedia Foundation<https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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