Hi Sammy! Thanks for this - this has been an ongoing concern for partners and residents around image stats in particular. If I remember correctly WREN <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_in_Residence_Exchange_Network> did a lot of work on this a while back, including a panel at Wikimania 2023, which might give you some pointers.
Sara On Wed, 25 Sept 2024 at 11:15, Sammy Fox <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all! > I met some of you at the UK meet-up at Wikimania, but for those who don’t > know me I’m Sammy — I’m a software engineer at the WMF, and on the board of > Wikimedia UK. At Wikimania I made a comment about affiliates keeping a list > of “critical volunteer tools” (i.e. toolforge/etc. tools which are > maintained by volunteers, but crucial to how you operate. Things like > BaGLAMa). > > I’d like to get together a list for Wikimedia UK, not only to keep track > of tools which would impact things if they became unmaintained, but also > because I’m currently putting together a talk on “The impact of > unmaintained tools on the Wikimedia Community”. > > Does anyone have any examples of; > a) working, critical volunteer tools and/or > b) broken/unmaintained, critical volunteer tools? > > I'm also in the "Wiki folk connected to Ireland & the United Kingdom" > telegram group if you'd prefer to chat about this 'in realtime'. > > > > Kind regards, > > > *Sammy Fox* > > *(They/Them)* > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > > https://eu-west-1.protection.sophos.com?d=wikimedia.org&u=aHR0cHM6Ly9saXN0cy53aWtpbWVkaWEub3JnL21haWxtYW4vbGlzdGluZm8vd2lraW1lZGlhdWstbA==&i=NjVhZmE0ZjY3MDExZmY1Y2Q3NDE3Yjkx&t=T2J4MEpCWm5jRzRHR3VFQk1hVVJ3WW5MSkVoT0I3anljTHV5VlVKMlBFWT0=&h=d8b55d272b2244cdb0a0bb3ff49786ae&s=AVNPUEhUT0NFTkNSWVBUSVZaFAaacHBa1XXlgRscq_crzoGlUi68xQtfbYwMm-_cdbNaheb163x6NaWPPdLeY2s > WMUK: > https://eu-west-1.protection.sophos.com?d=wikimedia.org.uk&u=aHR0cHM6Ly93aWtpbWVkaWEub3JnLnVr&i=NjVhZmE0ZjY3MDExZmY1Y2Q3NDE3Yjkx&t=TzBneFcxajh5bEtLQVQ5bjFSSVhLVUZKU09DZEVSSS9EdHoxcUEraXBtYz0=&h=d8b55d272b2244cdb0a0bb3ff49786ae&s=AVNPUEhUT0NFTkNSWVBUSVZaFAaacHBa1XXlgRscq_crzoGlUi68xQtfbYwMm-_cdbNaheb163x6NaWPPdLeY2s -- Dr Sara Thomas Programme Manager, Wikimedia UK 07803 505 172 https://wikimedia.org.uk/home/scotland/ <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Wikimedia_in_Scotland> <https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/> *I work part time, my usual days are Monday - Thursday.* *Wikimedia UK* <https://wikimedia.org.uk/> is the national chapter for the global Wikimedia open knowledge movement. Follow us on Twitter <https://twitter.com/wikimediauk>, Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaUK>, LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/company/496119>, and Instagram <https://www.instagram.com/wikimediauk/>. Wikimedia UK is a Registered Charity No.1144513 (England & Wales) SC048644 (Scotland). Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Scotland, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Office c/o British Library, Room 46018, 96 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*
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