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Code for my Wikimedia Labs Tools account
http://tools.wmflabs.org/hay
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Add tools listed in Wikidata #49

Closed nichtich closed 5 years ago

nichtich commented 7 years ago

Tools could also be described in Wikidata, e.g. instances of Wikidata tool. Wikidata allows to describe tools by anyone. This is important because creation and updating toolinfo.json is a bootleneck in this directory. In Wikidata we can also add additional connections, e.g. dependencies between tools, date of creation etc.

Detection of duplicates (same tool described in Wikidata and listed in https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hay/directory) could be on the url key and the official website.

hay commented 5 years ago

In my opinion, using the toolinfo.json file to describe a tool is a feature, not a bottleneck, and there are many reasons why i don't think Wikidata would be the best place for editing the tool information. A larger write-up on this subject is available in this comment on Phabricator.