Hi Sammy, Have you seen these global efforts to list/prioritise volunteer tools? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Content_Partnerships_Hub/Software/Tool_prioritization_survey_end_2022 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_CSI
Here's a link to documentation of the WREN session that Sara mentioned: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/August_2023/Contents/WREN_at_Wikimania_report Fiona 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://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
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