Talk:Wikimedia Labs/Tool Labs/List of Toolserver Tools

Expired tools

There should also be a separate list of the tools which died because of account expiration. There are many I still miss, and on Toolserver they can revived at any time. Probably less details are needed for those, but it's still something to keep an eye on. --Nemo 08:12, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

+1 I will keep this in mind! Silke WMDE (talk) 09:34, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

BTW, why we allow to die a function with the dead of the user?--Juandev (talk) 19:57, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Most linked tools

Some tools are also often linked from the wikis. Here are the authors whose tools are most linked with tools: interwiki:

2408592 magnus
2374418 daniel
 659885 dispenser
 566591 apper
 325646 pathoschild
 325427 krimpet
 325288 chm
 160767 quentinv
  74611 luxo
  36825 merl
  17320 acc
  17222 unblock
   2826 revolus
   1821 mzmcbride
   1431 kalan
   1292 soxred
    890 river
    853 alexz
    562 
    266 bjelleklang
    197 magog
    193 awb
    189 myst
    169 erwin
    158 drtrigon
    158 betacommand
    133 vvv
    126 interiot
    119 tangotango

There's also a list of all such links and a count of the respective occurrences (rather big files). I'm having some problems with the queries for links in external link form, let's see if something useful comes out of it. --Nemo 10:21, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

I managed to get something.

• tools linked from wikis' interface (these must be kept functioning)
• sort of rank of most linked tools

authors with most external-linked tools:

3314715 geohack
1028159 magnus
 739144 daniel
 614993 
 367430 chm
 285986 overlordq
 222602 verisimilus
 151408 luxo
 148223 dapete
 142976 tparis
 104956 vvv
  99782 interiot
  77678 lvova
  74798 para
  50757 eagle
  47001 apper
  36649 rhaworth
  35071 pathoschild
  30501 soxred
  29477 erwin
  18605 quentinv
  17749 kolossos
  14557 tpt
  12379 platonides

--Nemo 17:59, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

@Nemo bis: I'd love to see a tool or quarry query created that made finding reasonably up to date (monthly?) versions of these counts easy. Do you have or remember how you gathered these counts? I imagine they are taken from the iwlinks and externallinks tables? --BDavis (WMF) (talk) 20:55, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Sure. I didn't keep the script in the usual places, but it was just a shell script iterating over all dbnames to query the iwlinks_table and then some grep/sed + sort + uniq counting. --Nemo 04:22, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

Simplify editing

Hi. I suggest using named parameters to make it easier to edit the table. Specifically, I'd replace the positional arguments:

{{/tool|1 | Many projects | CommonsDelinker | operated by Siebrand, maintained by Bryan | Bot | Delinks deleted images from Commons from all Wikimedia projects; Universally replaces images on commands. | ? |  |  |  | ?}}

With something like this:

{{/tool
  |name    = CommonsDelinker 
  |summary = Delinks deleted images from Commons from all Wikimedia projects; Universally replaces images on commands.
  |author  = operated by Siebrand, maintained by Bryan
  |type    = Bot
  |scope   = Many projects  |license = open
  |pattern = 
  |status  = ?
  |software needs =
  |database needs = 
}}

I'd also suggest automating the manual list number.

If that's okay, I can take care of it. —Pathoschild 02:01:29, 08 March 2013 (UTC)

Coren already fixed that some weeks ago :-). But if you want to convert the existing entries with positional arguments, I'd appreciate it. --Tim Landscheidt 03:37, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Done. I didn't switch to auto-numbering, since that wouldn't work with the code for alternating row colours. —Pathoschild 04:53:47, 09 March 2013 (UTC)

Wonderful! Thank you, Pathos. --Nemo 08:23, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

YES PLEASE! I found the list to be staggerring! Sue Rangell (talk) 18:23, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

A small list to check against

THe table doesn't fit the width of my screen, I would kindly ask that someone looks into adding those to the list. Some I see in browsing history a lot but toolserver doesn't load for me, can't say what those tools do.

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• http://toolserver.org/~tparis/blame/ and other tools of this user - blame tool
• http://toolserver.org/~artem/ru_wikinews_rss.xml - russian wikinews rss, used for syndication by external sites
• http://toolserver.org/~bawolff/en-wn-editor-stats.php - editor stats for Wikinews
• http://toolserver.org/~dcoetzee/duplicationdetector/compare.php - plagiarism checker
• http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/CategoryIntersect.php - a tool to view members of multiple categories

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• http://toolserver.org/~snottywong/cgi-bin/commentsearch.cgi - search for phrase in edit summary of given user edits
• https://toolserver.org/~luxo/contributions/contributions.php - ?

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• http://toolserver.org/~magnus/fist.php - ?
• http://toolserver.org/~tparis/articleinfo/ - ?
• http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/CommonSense.php - ?

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Thanks. Gryllida (talk) 05:55, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

Coordinates tool

Maybe I'm just blind, I'm missing the Coordinates tool of Multichill. I'm always using it for my commons files. http://toolserver.org/~multichill/coordinates.php --Stanzilla (talk) 14:18, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

User friendly inquiry

As far as I understand the request, you are willing to know, who we use the tools. I would appreciate to have more userfriendly inquiry than user unfriendly wiki tab.--Juandev (talk) 19:56, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

My tools

It is hard to say, what tools I am using. Usually I look for them online and usually I am not able to find the one I saw last time. But:

• http://toolserver.org/~magnus/glamorous.php
• than something wich shows page views
• user contribs
• global contribs
• ceska-hesla-bez-sablony-audio.php (now not working)

--Juandev (talk) 20:00, 13 April 2013 (UTC)