[Labs-l] A proposal for better tool discoverability

Fri Aug 15 14:01:00 UTC 2014

Going slightly on a tangent here:

For tools generally considered cool/useful, but where the maintainer does
not know about/want to bother with the tool directory, should we set up a
wiki page, add the JSON for these tools, and add the "&action=raw" URL?
That would allow the community (as in, some of slightly obsessive people;-)
to maintain the list for these tool authors.

The only problem I see is potential duplication. Maybe the importer can
flag up multiple tools with identical URL?

Cheers,
Magnus

On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Hay (Husky) <huskyr at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Marc-André Pelletier
> <mpelletier at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > On Tool Labs, at least, any tool /can/ have a webserver URI attached,
> > but they don't necessarily do.  Many of the bots and bot-like tools
> > don't have web interfaces at all for instance.
> Yes, that's why i would propose that writers of tools use the 'url'
> field to link to a documentation page that would outline some of the
> basics of the tool, or in the worst case, to the source.
>
> Or were you referring to Hedonil's proposal?
>
> -- Hay
>
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