Template:SWT Toolkits

Configure your site

• Learn to change the configuration of your wiki:
  • Understand how to request and make configuration changes.
  • Customize the main page.
  • Change the sidebar of your wiki.

Analyze data with Lua

• Learn Lua to get data from Wikidata into infobox templates:
  • Read the Lua Tutorial.
  • Watch this video (90 min, on Youtube).

Starter kit

• Resources, tools, and recommendations in technical areas relevant to smaller wikis that are getting started.

Translate wiki content

• Train others on how to translate wiki pages from English into their language (source).

Write scripts and gadgets

• Learn to write user scripts and gadgets to change the behavior of the software.
• Train others on this topic (source).

Manage projects, bugs, and feature requests

• Learn to use the project management and bug reporting tool Phabricator.
• Train others on this topic (source).

Use Wikimedia APIs

• Learn to use Wikimedia APIs in your code to query data.
• Learn to use Pywikibot, a tool framework that helps to create bots.
• Train others on this topic (source).

Build and deploy tools

• Learn to deploy your first tool on Toolforge:
  • Watch this video (10 min, on Youtube).
  • Read the "Getting started" tutorials on the Toolforge portal.