Talk:Toolhub/The Quality Signal Sessions

Welcome to the Toolhub/The Quality Signal Sessions talk page! This place is dedicated to gathering feedback on the Toolhub project.

Discussion topic for "Quality Signal Sessions: The Wikidata edition" session participants.

Here are a few discussion questions for the feedback session with the Wikidata community:

• What is biggest challenge/problem you have that tools solve for?
• What is 1 or more tool(s) you currently are using that is useful and valuable to you?
  • For each of those tools, where did you find out about them and how to use them?
    • Was it difficult to find?
    • What makes a tool trustworthy?
    • If you could filter your tool search results, what would you filter for?
    • What tools have you avoided or stopped using?
    • What informed your decision?
• Is there anything you wish you knew ahead of time?
• Which tools do you contribute to the most?
  • What makes these tools attractive to contribute to?
• How do you decide to join a tool project?
  • What information are you looking for?

We invite you to share your feedback below. SSethi (WMF) (talk) 22:47, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

Input from the most active tool maintainers needed - links to some pointers

In order to get decent input on these questions, I think it's crucial if you hear from the most active tool maintainers. Are you actively reaching out to them?

• Tools used for Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. When I still worked at the Wikimedia Foundation (several years ago already) I have once made a large list / spreadsheet of tools that are actively used on Wikimedia Commons. Their maintainers are listed alongside them. With a bit of digging, I found it again here as linked from this page related to Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. This will give pointers to some users / developers who should be consulted here.
• Tools used in the GLAM-Wiki community. One recent overview of that (with a focus on tools used for structured data) can be found here on Wikimedia Commons.

Cheers, Spinster (talk) 06:09, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

Spinster, thank you for sharing your thoughts! The information you have shared is valuable; we will develop a plan soon to gather feedback from the tool maintainers. Is there a specific list where I could find the tool maintainers in the GLAM wiki community? Maybe we can promote the "tool maintainers" edition when we have it with them. SSethi (WMF) (talk) 22:24, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello Shrishti, you can find the user names of maintainers in this spreadsheet. Many of the tools in this list are used in a GLAM context. Spinster (talk) 11:25, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Discussion topic for "Quality Signal Sessions: The Women in Red edition" session participants.

Questions:

• Tell us about the last time you had discovered a useful tool?
• What is the goal you’re trying to achieve? What tasks are all involved?
• What is the first thing you do when looking for a tool?
• What goes into the decision making process for whether you’ll use this tool?
• What workarounds currently exist in your current process?
• What do you dread doing? What do you avoid? Why?
• What could be easier? Why?

SSethi (WMF) (talk) 18:46, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

Discussion topic for "Quality Signal Sessions: The Tool Maintainers edition"

Questions:

• What are some tool(s) that you currently maintain?
• How do you decide to join a tool project?
  • What information are you looking for?
  • Is it difficult to find it?
• How do you currently maintain these tools/processes do you follow?
• What makes a tool trustworthy?
  • If you could filter your tool search results, what would you filter for?
• What tools have you avoided or stopped maintaining?
  • What informed your decision?
  • Is there anything you wish you knew ahead of time?
• Which tools do you contribute to the most?
  • What makes these tools attractive to contribute to?

We invite all tool maintainers to share their thoughts in response to the questions above. SSethi (WMF) (talk) 18:46, 29 July 2021 (UTC)