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Community-maintained projects on Toolforge are hard to track
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There are quite a few projects that are duplicates of other projects, or orphaned projects that were created months ago and are now unused.

We need...

  1. some sort of matchmaking system to link up new volunteers with existing projects, and
  2. some way to track which projects are active vs. inactive, and
  3. A better way to track 'ownership' of projects so that we know who to ask about the above

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 3:03 AM
• bzimport added a project: Wikimedia-Labs-General.
• bzimport set Reference to bz62837.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
Andrew created this task.Mar 19 2014, 3:42 PM
• bzimport added a comment.Mar 19 2014, 3:59 PM

dilshak wrote:

Upon evaluation of introductory pages and existing projects, a list of drawbacks and areas that require improvement were identified.

Attached here with is the link for the aforementioned demonstration task where all identified points are listed under 2 different user perspectives.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Welcome_to_Labs_-Demonstration_Work

Following is my project proposal for enhancing project documentation and tracking of existing projects :

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Dilshak/Welcoming_new_contributors_to_Wikimedia_Labs_and_Wikimedia_Tool_Labs

Quiddity subscribed.Dec 2 2014, 10:08 PM
Aklapper added a project: Cloud-Services.Apr 29 2015, 10:23 AM
• chasemp triaged this task as High priority.Nov 30 2015, 5:36 PM
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Aklapper added a project: Developer-Advocacy.Nov 30 2015, 6:04 PM
Aklapper renamed this task from Community-maintained projects are hard to track to Community-maintained projects on Labs are hard to track.Dec 1 2015, 1:38 PM
Aklapper set Security to None.
Aklapper added a comment.Dec 1 2015, 1:44 PM

For Tool Labs, valhallasw pointed out that https://tools.wmflabs.org/contact/ could be helpful

Qgil added subscribers: Qgil, bd808.Jan 12 2016, 1:24 AM

High priority but assigned to nobody?

Qgil moved this task from To triage to Team radar on the Developer-Advocacy board.Jan 12 2016, 1:24 AM
bd808 mentioned this in T128158: Tools web interface for tool authors (Brainstorming ticket).Mar 12 2016, 1:12 AM
tom29739 subscribed.Mar 25 2016, 1:14 PM
Qgil lowered the priority of this task from High to Low.Apr 26 2016, 9:07 AM
Qgil added a parent task: T115650: Create an authoritative and well promoted catalog of Wikimedia tools.
Qgil mentioned this in T133326: p50380g50816__pop_stats (popularpages) using 53G on labsdb1001 (enwiki).May 31 2016, 9:04 PM
Qgil added a comment.Oct 27 2016, 1:35 PM

Would this task be a good topic for the Wikimedia-Developer-Summit (2017) ? If so, the deadline to submit new proposals is next Monday, October 31: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/Call_for_participation

Framawiki subscribed.Apr 12 2017, 4:04 PM
bd808 edited parent tasks, added: T123425: [EPIC] Make wikitech more friendly for the multiple audiences it supports; removed: T115650: Create an authoritative and well promoted catalog of Wikimedia tools.Dec 18 2017, 4:12 AM
Harej edited projects, added Toolhub; removed Cloud-Services, Wikimedia-Labs-General.Mar 5 2018, 11:18 PM
Harej moved this task from Backlog to Radar on the Toolhub board.Apr 9 2018, 9:46 PM
AfroThundr3007730 subscribed.Nov 29 2018, 7:27 PM
Aklapper renamed this task from Community-maintained projects on Labs are hard to track to Community-maintained projects on Toolforge are hard to track.Mar 12 2019, 6:03 PM
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