Mastodawn

unfinished thought: it would be quite good to have something like the Toolforge Abandoned Tool policy (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Abandoned_tool_policy) for non-tool Wikimedia code, such as libraries (e.g. #m3api) or applications (e.g. Pattypan?)

this could be a step towards “Off-the-shelf governance models for small FOSS projects” (@pintoch, https://antonin.delpeuch.eu/posts/off-the-shelf-governance-models-for-small-foss-projects/) – if a codebase opts into it (README.md?), there would be an established process for adopting it if the maintainer goes inactive

#Wikimedia #Toolforge

Help:Toolforge/Abandoned tool policy - Wikitech

Sam Wilson Jan 26

#Wikisource Export v.3.1.3 released today. If anyone notices anything weird, please let me know!

https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/toolforge-repos/wsexport/-/releases/3.1.3

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3.1.3 · toolforge-repos / wsexport · GitLab

Default to language 'mul' if none can be determined. T389911. Update repo URL in...

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Egon Willighagen Jan 19

yesterday evening work with @EvoMRI on the @wdscholia instance on Toolforge. We noted that our main instance only shows half of the results, only @wikidata 'main' part. The 'scholarly' articles part are no longer there. That day has been pending.

We seem very close. I wrote up a status 3 weeks ago: https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/12/31/rescuing-scholia-2-getting-close.html

For this week, plz use https://qlever.scholia.wiki/

We put a banner on the #toolforge instance

#openscience #wikidata #sparql #scholia

Rescuing Scholia #2: getting closer

Three weeks ago, I wrote a the post Rescuing Scholia: will we make it in time?, where I sketched a future without Scholia. Scholia, started almost 10 years ago and I think it is worth keeping around longer.

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Lucas Werkmeister Jan 11

new QuickCategories feature! you can now use the tool to *create* pages if you want, e.g. to set up a category tree :)

(QuickCategories is a tool to batch-edit categories of pages, using a tabular input syntax similar to QuickStatements. it has already made over two million edits across Wikimedia wikis!)

https://quickcategories.toolforge.org/
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/QuickCategories

#Wikimedia #Toolforge #QuickCategories

Finn Årup Nielsen Dec 14

Some tools on #Toolforge not reachable for me: scholia.toolforge.org host unreachable for 185.15.56.11, but scholia.toolforge.org also 185.15.56.88 and reachable. Is it my DNS that is wrong?

Magnus Manske Nov 19

Geohack Rust rewrite

http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/archives/785

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Lucas Werkmeister Nov 18

if you used cookiecutter-toolforge to create a tool in the last year, please apply the following accessibility fix that I accidentally introduced with the Bootstrap 5 migration: https://github.com/lucaswerkmeister/cookiecutter-toolforge/commit/e6f4bfe13e

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Remove inappropriate visually-hidden class from skiplink · lucaswerkmeister/cookiecutter-toolforge@e6f4bfe

I broke this in the upgrade from Bootstrap 4 to 5 – per the docs [1], visually-hidden-focusable must be used on its own, not together with visually-hidden. (In my defense, the migration guide [2] d...

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Lucas Werkmeister Nov 5

the Toolforge Standards Committee is looking for new members: https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/4GIRDNIE2NIELYKLX4UMRWZP5PBWVQHP/

nominations here: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help_talk:Toolforge/Toolforge_standards_committee#November_2025_committee_nominations

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