I didn't want to wait for a gerrit repo to get started on this, so https://github.com/bd808/mediawiki-extensions-Toolhub is the initial home for the extension. At the end of day one I have:

• A local dev environment created using https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cli
• A MediaWiki extension that adds a Lua library which can call one method of the Toolhub API

I spent today playing around with templates and lua and now have a template that invokes a lua module method which in turn fetches data from the Toolhub API and then uses that data to populate a second template that I imported from wikitech (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Tool). The end result? The wikitext {{AutoTool|wikimedia-toolhub}} renders a page that looks like:

Tomorrow I plan to work on adding support for fetching lists and searching for collections of tools. I'm also considering adding a special page for interactive searching of toolhub from the wiki.

Gerrit hosting requested for git repo -- https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Gerrit/New_repositories/Requests/Entries&diff=5337041&oldid=5334321

Change 813707 had a related patch set uploaded (by BryanDavis; author: Bryan Davis):

[integration/config@master] zuul: Add mediawiki/extensions/Toolhub

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/813707

Change 813707 merged by jenkins-bot:

[integration/config@master] zuul: Add mediawiki/extensions/Toolhub

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/813707

Day 3 progress:

• Refactored implementation to separate lua interface and api client for easier testing and reuse of api client
• Moved git hosting to gerrit
• Setup CI with an assist from @Reedy
• Added ApiClient->getListById( $id )
• Fell into a deep dark hole while trying to get unit tests working for ApiClient with HttpRequestFactory mocking
  • Mocked methods do what is expected when called directly, but seem to not be called at all indirectly?

Day 4:

• Figured out the PHP mocking mystery. createPartialMock() was the thing I needed to allow mocking some methods while otherwise letting the real object do things.
• @Reedy gave patches to add phan configuration and to declare the dependency on Scribunto
• Added declare( strict_types = 1 ); and missing type hints
  • Discovered that mixed only works as a type hint in PHP >=8.0 later (test coverage could use work)
• Added GET /api/search/tools client and lua binding

Things that are interesting me for day 5 of this "inspiration" sprint:

• a demo server to show others what this can do
• a special page to do searches of Toolhub
• researching what if anything wikidata does to trigger reparses of pages using data via lua
• refactoring ApiClient for better error reporting when things go boom

Day 5:

• Setup https://toolhub-extension-demo.toolforge.org/wiki/Main_Page by largely following @LucasWerkmeister's notes at https://notwikilambda.toolforge.org/wiki/Not_Wikilambda:Setup
• Copied content from wikitech and my local dev wiki to toolhub-extension-demo.toolforge.org

After inspiration week ended:

• Created MediaWiki-extensions-Toolhub
• Created https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Toolhub

In T272652#8085486, @bd808 wrote:

• Setup https://toolhub-extension-demo.toolforge.org/wiki/Main_Page by largely following @LucasWerkmeister's notes at https://notwikilambda.toolforge.org/wiki/Not_Wikilambda:Setup

See https://web.archive.org/web/20211014032532/https://notwikilambda.toolforge.org/wiki/Not_Wikilambda:Setup

I should add a special page to this for searching and then see if I can get any support for deploying it to the Wikimedia wikis. I imagine the slipperiest part of that will be finding a Foundation team willing to provide long-term maintenance support for the extension.