[Labs-l] A proposal for better tool discoverability

Harry Burt jarry1250 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 15 10:20:43 UTC 2014


Neat! I still think that the only way you'll get good adoption is to have
an online form, forced on you when you create a tool... that particular
horse may have already bolted, of course.

Harry


On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Magog The Ogre <magog.the.ogre at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Question: will the tool choke and/or emit unwanted error messages if it
> finds JSON fields it doesn't recognize? Because these are a sneaky way to
> include comments (http://stackoverflow.com/q/244858).
>
> Also, Hay, you are a coding, documentation, and implementation genius. :-)
>
>
> On Friday, August 15, 2014, TParis <tparis.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Might also be useful to know if a tool has an API and if the source code
>> is viewable.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: labs-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:
>> labs-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of svetlana
>> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 6:52 PM
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>> Subject: Re: [Labs-l] A proposal for better tool discoverability
>>
>> On Thu, 14 Aug 2014, at 22:59, Hay (Husky) wrote:
>> > Hey Hedonil,
>> > thanks for the suggestion for a 'repository' property, i've added
>> > that. Adding it now adds a 'source available' link in the tool card,
>> > and also groups them in a special category.
>> >
>> > -- Hay
>>
>> Maybe also indicate a tool source code license? Would be adorable
>>
>> svetlana
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