Community Capacity Development/Tamil 2016/Tools

This is a list of tools demonstrated or discussed at the On-Wiki Technical Skills training conducted by Asaf Bartov and Yuvi Panda in Chennai in April 2016.

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/Massviews/Topviews - 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)