Tools, gadgets, bots, helpers and toys

Showcase for tools, bots, gadgets, toys -- all the little enhancements (for the web, the desktop and the phone) that make life easier on Wikimedia projects. Are you a developer and would like to showcase a tool? Are you an audience member and would like to learn? 3 minutes per tool max, with URLs collected here.

This session will only take place if there are at least 10 interested attendees. It'll be in room 308 on Sunday, likely around ~10AM.

Proposed by Eloquence (talk) 14:53, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Notes from session

• Navigation popups
  • Enable at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation_popups

• WikiMiniAtlas
  • http://wikiminiatlas.org/talk (the Wikimania 2012 talk)
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo (example article)
  • http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiMiniAtlas

• ZoomViewer
  • Activated by default on Commons for all users, but not English Wikipedia
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seattle_7.jpg (example image)
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Gadget-ZoomViewer

• Quality Images Bot and UI framework
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Quality_images/Recently_promoted
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Gadget-QInominator
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Quality_images_candidates/candidate_list

• Twinkle
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Twinkle

• User scripts:
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tom_Morris/vector.js

• Citation toolbar
  • Enabled by default for all users on English Wikipedia
  • Zotero works with Wikipedia: http://www.zotero.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zotero
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:RefToolbar.js

• Cat-a-lot
  • Enable at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets under "Tools for categories"
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Gadget-Cat-a-lot

• HotCat
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:HotCat

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• Glamorous mashup
  • http://toolserver.org/~prolineserver/glamorous/glamorous.php
  • Good test category: George Washington University faculty

• Commons:
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Gadget-Cat-a-lot.js
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Gadget-HotCat

• Check Wikipedia
  • http://toolserver.org/~sk/cw/index.htm
  • Finds common errors in Wikipedia articles --> I use it to find articles that need review

• Check Links
  • http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/view/Checklinks
  • Checks all external links in a Wikipedia article --> I use it for article reviews

• wikilint
  • http://toolserver.org/~timl/cgi-bin/wikilint
  • Finds common errors in a Wikipedia article (English and German so far) --> I use it for article reviews

• Move to commons
  • http://toolserver.org/~magnus/commonshelper.php
  • Makes it easier to move images from local Wikipedias to Wikimedia Commons

• Geo Locator
  • http://tools.freeside.sk/geolocator/geolocator.html
  • Great helper for adding geographical data to images

I'm interested!

• I am interested. I may be able to share my barcode ISBN scanner and Cite book yemplate generator. --Joshuagay (talk) 15:25, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
• Samat (talk) 16:12, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
• Tgr (talk) 16:16, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
• Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 21:36, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
• Tpt (talk) 14:24, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
• Sebastian Wallroth (talk) 15:05, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
• User:Dschwen. I'm here right now. Where is everybody? --Dschwen (talk) 15:10, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
• Ainali (talk) 15:26, 15 July 2012 (UTC)