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wikistream.toolforge.org needs new maintainers
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Wikistream is a tool that has been around for the Wikimedia movement for quite a while. It provides a web interface showing real-time editing data across many Wikimedia projects. The data for this comes from the IRC recent changes feeds. The webservice is written in nodejs and running on the Toolforge Kubernetes cluster.

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I built https://tools.wmflabs.org/event-streams last month... I would have instead contributed to Wikistream had I known about it! The Event Streams UI is not quite as straightforward to use, but it otherwise offers similar functionality. I have not added an edit size filter, though. I'm not at all suggesting Event Streams as a replacement, just saying that if worse comes to worse, there are alternatives.

Pintoch subscribed.

I'm tagging this as low priority given that there are alternatives such as https://tools.wmflabs.org/event-streams as mentioned above.

For the same reason I would actually be tempted to close the ticket, but it could be that I underestimate the impact of such a tool potentially going down. Who uses this tool, and to do what? I find it unlikely that this is used for patrolling, given the sheer volume exposed by the stream and the limited filtering capabilities. Is it used for outreach, to illustrate the volume of Wikimedia edits? I would say we have better tools for that, such as http://listen.hatnote.com/. Is it used as a demonstration of the Wikimedia EventStream to encourage developers build tools on top of it? We have quite some others here: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event_Platform/EventStreams/Powered_By

I'm tagging this as low priority given that there are alternatives

Weird flex, but ok.

For the same reason I would actually be tempted to close the ticket

This is the Toolforge-standards-committee (Maintainer needed) project that was invented for posting notices like this one. Closing a task here should happen only when 1) sufficient maintainers have been found, or 2) the tool has been archived.

Pintoch raised the priority of this task from Low to Needs Triage.Sep 25 2024, 3:35 AM

Sorry about that! I thought it could be interesting to get a better overview of the urgency of tasks in this board by trying to get a sense of how useful and relied on the mentioned tools are, but if that's not the right way of doing things, I'm happy to step back.