Submissions/Presenting the Tool Labs
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This is an accepted submission for Wikimania 2013. |
- Submission no.
- 5012
- Subject no.
- P2
- Title of the submission
Presenting the Tool Labs
- Type of submission
Presentation
- Author of the submission
- Country of origin
Canada
- Affiliation
Wikimedia Foundation
- E-mail address
marc
uberbox.org
- Username
- Personal homepage or blog
- Abstract
As part of the Wikimedia Labs, the Foundation has made available a new resource for community developers: the Tool Labs. A key goal of Tool Labs is to provide an easy development environment meant to be used as a ramp to the Test/Dev Labs environment, as well as a stable and reliable home for community maintained external tools like bots and webservices.
This presentation showcases this infrastructure and its uses, demonstrate its features, and gives an introduction on how community developers can use it for their own projects.
- Detailed proposal
As part of the Wikimedia Labs, the Foundation has made available a new resource for community developers: the Tool Labs. A key goal of Tool Labs is to provide an easy development environment meant to be used as a ramp to the Test/Dev Labs environment, as well as a stable and reliable home for community maintained external tools like bots and webservices.
Covered:
- Presentation of the infrastructure (15 min)
- Showcase of tools and projects using the Tool Labs (10 min)
- How to join the Labs for your own projects (15 min)
- Track
- Technology and Infrastructure
- Length of presentation/talk
- 55 Minutes (including 15 minutes of Q&A)
- Language of presentation/talk
English
- Will you attend Wikimania if your submission is not accepted?
Yes.
- Slides or further information (optional)
- Special requests
- This should be scheduled before Migrating from the Toolserver to Tool Labs workshop (5034) if both are accepted (attendees to the former may wish to join the latter)
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