Wikipedia talk:Tools

Contribution Surveyor is not working

When I access Contribution Surveyor, enter a username and click Survey user, the webpage returns the following error: "The MariaDB server is running with the --read-only option so it cannot execute this statement". Can someone else reproduce this issue? If the tool is indeed broken, is there any way to notify the author? Otherwise, the tool would have to be removed from the list, which would be a shame because, as far as I know, there's no other tool that can show user contributions ordered by total text added. — Zenadix (talk) 02:28, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

According to Toolforge, the maintainer of Contribution Surveyor is Jalexander-WMF (Jamesofur), so I'm pinging him here to make him aware of the issue. — Zenadix (talk) 23:35, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

@Jalexander-WMF: The Contribution Surveyor Link is dead. Could someone please have a look at the problem? Google gave me this. Xenagoras (talk) 08:26, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

• Dear Zenadix: Now that Toolforge is a thing, Contribution Surveyor supposedly should be here. But it doesn't seem to load for me at all.

Dear MER-C: From this diff, it looks like you may have access to Contribution Surveyor. If so, how?

Kind regards, —Unforgettableid (talk) 06:45, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

Because I made my own replacement. MER-C 08:18, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

MER-C, it doesn't seem like yours is working properly. I'm trying to do a report for User:Thricecube, but some known articles (like edits to Transport in Benin) are not coming up on the list. Also, if I set a date range it fails or returns no edits. I'm interested in the user's edits up between 20 June 2009 and 29 November 2009. Could you investigate? Thanks! Calliopejen1 (talk) 16:04, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

Too many edits. I had to lower the edit limit drastically due to some advertising company hammering my tools. The second is a bug, and has been fixed. MER-C 18:11, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

Coolest Tool Award 2020: Call for nominations!

The second edition of the m:Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations.

Tools play an essential role for the Wikimedia projects, and so do the many volunteer developers who experiment with new ideas and develop and maintain local and global solutions to support the Wikimedia communities. The Coolest Tool Award aims to recognize and celebrate the coolest tools in a variety of categories.

The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in November. The deadline to submit nominations is October 14, 2020.

Your nominations and help spreading the word about the nomination process to highlight the work of our technical contributors would be greatly appreciated. --JHernandez (WMF) (talk) 09:36, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

Google Book cite no longer working?

Google Book cite no longer working? Two links to it on page...Lingzhi.Random (talk) 09:26, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

No, and we'll have to get the links updated, but there's a replacement (sort of). You can insert plain Google Books links at https://citer.toolforge.org/ and it will do the magic for you. Dawnseeker2000 09:48, 10 October 2021 (UTC)

Also have https://alyw234237.github.io/wiki-doi-gbooks-citation-maker/ --Moxy- 15:03, 10 October 2021 (UTC)

https://alyw234237.github.io/wiki-doi-gbooks-citation-maker/ now gives a 404 error. Badgettrg (talk) 02:54, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

alyw234237 seems to have privated his content so I don’t think we can access anything he has posted. Speed doesn't always mean quality 400Weir (talk) 21:24, 7 June 2023 (UTC)

@400Weir: is the code available somewhere? I'm happy to host it. - Scarpy (talk) 18:35, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

@Scarpy I'm afraid not. alwy234237 deleted everything that he has done on GitHub. I don't think too many people paid attention to this tool, so I doubt anyone has preserved the code for the project. The best alternative right now is the Citer Toolforge. Speed doesn't always mean quality 400Weir (talk) 14:58, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

Visualization or grouping tool

Is there any tool that visualizes or groups by total number of articles in a certain Wikipedia that are dispersed across domains or categories? I mean like these: science, art, culture, history, etc., or it could be more narrow. I couldn't find any. Zygimantus (talk) 10:01, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab) § Tool for bypassing redirects in see also sections

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab) § Tool for bypassing redirects in see also sections. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 19:43, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

Any alternatives to Refill?

I'm assuming reFill is gone for good. What alternatives are there? - Hipal (talk) 16:28, 8 August 2024 (UTC)

It works at https://refill.toolforge.org/ng/ Pancho507 (talk) 02:24, 18 September 2024 (UTC)