பயனர்:Asaf (WMF)/Community Capacity Development/Tools

This page collected ideas for technical tools to cover during the on-wiki technical skills training by the Wikimedia Foundation, held in Chennai on Apr 30th and May 1st.

Tools the community is interested in

Please tell us which tools you would definitely like to see covered in the training. Either name and link to specific existing tools, or describe the kind of tools you're interested in (for example "mass upload tools", "image search tools", or "patrolling tools")

If a tool you're interested in is already mentioned, do add a +1 to express your interest, to help with prioritization.

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Additional tools WMF thinks are worth covering

Tool directories

• Hay's Tools Directory
  • alternative view of same directory
• Tool Labs tool list
• SeeAlso - Wiki visualizations directory
• Wikimedia Documentation Directory

Editing

• What to work on?
  • GapFinder
  • most wanted
  • Wiki Todo (Tamil supported!)
  • Wikidata Todo
  • Not in my language
  • Not in the other language
  • Missing Topics in category or tree
• Editing convenience
  • Eran's autocompleter gadget
  • HotCat
  • ...

Statistics, tracking, and querying

• WikiMetrics - track contributions from cohorts of users (e.g. trainees)
• Wikitrends (most visited this month/week/day)
• Pageviews - query and comparison interface
• External URL patterns statistics
• Top most viewed pages by wiki (direct link for Tamil)
• TreeViews - monthly view stats for category trees
• Wikipedia Tools for Chrome - a Chrome add-on useful in compiling Wikipedia statistics
• Media
  • Recent acquisitions - show newest members in category
  • GLAMorous - track image usage across projects, by Commons category
  • BaGLAMa - track page views of articles containing images from a Commons category
    • See also GLAMorgan
• Queries
  • PetScan - (very) powerful query interface over pages, categories, and Wikidata

Media

• Flickr2Commons, Flickr Free and New (uses Flickr2Commons)
• Crop Tool for Commons
• Free Image Search Tool, Wikidata FIST
• Video2Commons - video uploader
• Pronuncify, Pronuncify.NET (record audio pronunciation files for Commons in batches)
• GLAMify - suggest images for articles based on usage in interwiki links (e.g.)
• Commons file finder - by user and category
• List of upload tools on Commons

Wikidata

• Wikidata Query (WDQ) - visual query tool
  • e.g. missing articles on tawiki with the most interwiki links
• Resonator - a prettier display of what Wikidata knows about an item
• Wikidata property browser
• Harvest data from templates into Wikidata (configurable for Tamil!)
• Wikidata-based timelines
• The Wikidata Game and The Distributed Wikidata Game
• Using arbitrary Wikidata in other wikis (e.g. Infoboxes)
  • See also: Listeria (needs to add Tamil support)