[Labs-l] A proposal for better tool discoverability

Thu Aug 14 14:55:55 UTC 2014

Wrote down some thoughts about the data structure of a unified directory
service,
but would be happy to have this discussion admin-moderated in a central
place to push this new approach.

https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Hedonil#Draft._.28Labs-_.29Tools-_Directory

-Hedonil

On 14/08/14 16:10, Marc-André Pelletier wrote:
> On 08/13/2014 11:15 AM, Hay (Husky) wrote:
>> If you have a web-hosted tool, simply stick it in the root of your
>> tools directory so that it's reachable by the crawler. Whenever your
>> tool data changes, just update the file and the directory will
>> automatically update the directory site.
> I would actually prefer that the json file live in the tool's home, and
> will shortly provide a means by which this can be fetched by HTTP.  Not
> all tools provide web interfaces, and metadata about those would be just
> as useful.
>
> It would also make sense to have more than one url element; one
> (optional) for a web interface, for instance, and one to documentation
> at the least.
>
> -- Marc
>
>
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