For *working, critical volunteer tools*, Montage
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Montage> is an excellent tool
and as far as I know is actively maintained by volunteers. It is extremely
useful for judging photography contests and gets a lot of use by
organisations across the movement.

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*
>
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