Last modified: 2014-08-28 15:41:09 UTC
The home page https://tools.wmflabs.org/ currently gives an index of all tools hosted on Tool Labs. However, it is starting to get cluttered. There are entries such as "asdf" and "betacommand-dev" that seem to be test/experimental projects and should be separated out from the public-interest projects. Others, like "bugello" and "digimus" have no information or documentation. Two things that would help to organise this page are: * Categorisation - printing several tables on the page instead of one long one. This could be quite simple e.g. - Web interface tools (e.g. geohack; xtools; voxelbot) - Bots lacking a web interface (e.g. anomiebot; suggestbot) - Test/development projects (e.g. betacommand-dev; hennalabs) * Requiring all tools to provide a description (currently optional).
We shouldn't require people to use .description, but all tools which don't provide it, should be hidden by default from the list.
An easy first pass might be "list only tools that either have a web interface or a .description"?
Pages such as https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Local-addbot are actually created for all service groups, could this potentially be used? This way the categories, descriptions and other details could be on wiki.
Yow, those pages being created is a bug; not only are they not projects(!) but the names aren't unique between project so that "local-addbot" could exist and be completely different things on different projects. So no, we can't use those pages since they shouldn't exist. :-)
How about creating pages on a different part of wikitech for tools?
can we close this? :o
I just noticed it doesn't work. Tools with no www and no description are still in a list
(In reply to comment #7) > I just noticed it doesn't work. Tools with no www and no description are > still > in a list That looks good. They only need to be in their own section, collapse it if you really want. Hunting for tools around is a nightmare, having a central list is the one thing Toolserver really envies to Tool Labs. :)
Just giving this bug a poke. This has become a lot more of an issue now, with over 820 tools listed on the Tools home page, and the majority lacking any ancillary information. I still think a basic categorisation system, as I suggested in comment 0, could be helpful.
*** Bug 67259 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
