Toolhub/Data model
< Toolhub
The goal of Toolhub is to make it easier for Wikimedians to find tools to use in their work. This data model describes what pieces of information the Toolhub collects and organizes to assist with that goal.
Summary
[edit]Below is a table of the various pieces of information that can be used to describe a tool in Toolhub. Note that this table omits some metadata fields that don't aid tool discovery, and in general glosses over the implementation details. The #Technical details section below describes how this works in greater detail.
| Name | Description | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Basic information | ||
| Name (Required)
|
Unique identifier | The name needs to be unique across all tools. Tool developers are encouraged to use namespaces/prefixes to reduce the risk of clashes. For example, all Toolforge tool records published via toolsadmin.wikimedia.org use the prefix "toolforge-". |
| Title (Required)
|
User friendly name | |
| Description (Required)
|
Tool description | This should be around 3-5 sentences describing the tool, what it's used for, etc. |
| URL (Required)
|
Link to where the tool is found | |
| URL alternates | Alternate links to the tool, e.g. for differing tool translations | |
| Author | Name of the tool developer | |
| Official maintainer [1] | User(s) with the ability to communicate official updates about the tool | Subject to a verification process |
| Sponsor | Organization that sponsored this tool's development | Example: Wikimedia Sverige has sponsored the development of several tools. |
| Subtitle | Brief pitch for tool. Longer than title, briefer than description | Longer than a title but shorter than a description. Currently has a character limit of 250 characters. |
| Bot username | If the tool is a bot, the username of the bot | |
| Tool type | Which type of tool? Web app, bot, gadget? | Choice of: web app, desktop app, bot, gadget, user script, lua module, template, command line tool, coding framework, other |
| Icon | Small icon that represents the tool | A link to a Wikimedia Commons file description page for an icon that depicts the tool. |
| Wikidata item [1] | The Wikidata item ID for the tool | Example: Q4063270 for AutoWikiBrowser. |
| OpenHub ID | The OpenHub ID for the tool | Given a project URL "https://openhub.net/p/foo", the OpenHub ID is foo. |
| When and where to use the tool | ||
| For wikis... | Which wikis should this be used on? Use hostnames | Examples: * (all wikis), fr.wikipedia.org (French Wikipedia), *.wikisource.org (all Wikisources), www.wikidata.org (Wikidata) |
| Use cases [1] | Different tasks that can be performed with this tool | See #Tool use cases |
| Audiences [1] | Applicable audiences of people | Must be one of the standard Wikimedia Resource Center audiences; see #Audiences. |
| Related topics [1] | Concepts that are related to this tool | Use Wikidata items |
| Collections [1] | This tool is a part of the following collections | Tools can be organized into arbitrary groupings for ease of reference |
| Supported languages | Languages the tool interface supports | ISO 639 language strings like "zh" and "scn". Use "*" if a tool is effectively available in all languages. If not defined, it is assumed the tool is only available in English.
|
| Feedback URL | Where people should go to leave feedback | |
| Broken [1] | Yes/no flag for community members to indicate whether a tool is broken | |
| Experimental | Yes/no flag to mark that the tool is unstable and can change at any time | |
| Deprecated | Yes/no flag to mark that use of the tool is officially discouraged | This allows tools to be indexed while also helping to filter them out of search results |
| Replaced by | If a tool is deprecated, a link to the replacement tool | |
| Tool use guidance | ||
| Documentation URL [2] | Link to documentation | Can include official and user-generated docs |
| Screenshots [1] | Commons filename of screenshot | Still-image preview of the tool |
| Video [1] | Commons filename for video | Video related to the tool, including an introduction or a tutorial |
| Privacy policy URL | Link to applicable privacy policy | |
| Additional information [1] | Supplementary descriptive text | |
| For developers | ||
| License | Description of software license | Use SPDX identifiers |
| Repository | A link to the repository where the tool code is hosted. Often this will be a git repository, but it could also be any other version control system or even a wiki page in the case of a user script, gadget, template, or lua module. | |
| Technologies used | Technological concepts used in implementing the tool | Includes programming languages, data standards, etc. |
| API URL | Link to the tool's API if it exists | |
| Developer documentation URL | Developer documentation URL | |
| Bug tracker URL | Link to bug tracker on Phabricator, Trello, GitHub, etc. | |
| Volunteering | ||
| Volunteer (user assistance) [1] | These users offer to help people use the tool | |
| Code maintainer [1] | These users offer to help with maintaining code | |
| Testers [1] | People who have signed up to test new versions of tools | |
| Translate URL | Link to translation workflow | |
Taxonomy and controlled vocabulary
[edit]A taxonomy is a hierarchy of concepts. In the Toolhub taxonomy, the concepts represent attributes of tools. The Toolhub taxonomy seeks to enable filtering and browsing of tools by adding fields to the toolinfo.json schema and defining a controlled vocabularies for each of those attributes. A controlled vocabulary limits the values in a field to a predetermined (or controlled) set of options, to help ensure that tools are described consistently and similar tools can be discovered together.
The Toolhub taxonomy is limited to tool attributes that require human curation. For example: an attribute like "coding language" may be an important Tool attribute, but the list of coding languages that exist doesn't require human curation, so it isn't part of the proposed taxonomy. In contrast, an attribute like "use case" can have many different values which may overlap or conflict with one another. This is the type of attribute where a controlled vocabulary is useful.
Taxonomy v2
[edit]During the Wikimedia Foundation's 2022-2023 fiscal year (July 2022-June 2023) the Toolhub team seeks to identify which additional tool attributes would be most useful to expand the data model and facilitate tool discovery. To identify a set of attributes and controlled vocabulary, User:TBurmeister_(WMF) completed a taxonomy research project and the team gathered community feedback that resulted in the following set of attributes.
Audiences
[edit]Who is the intended user of the tool?
Values:
- Admins
- Organizers and program coordinators
- Editors and content contributors
- Readers and content consumers
- Researchers
- Developers
Content types
[edit]With what type of content or data does the tool interact?
Values:
- Articles
- Audio
- Books
- Data
- Bibliographic data
- Categories or labels
- Diffs and revision data
- Event data
- Geographic data
- Linguistic data
- Page metadata
- Structured data
- User data
- Discussions
- Drafts
- Emails
- Images
- Links
- Lists
- Logs
- Maps
- References
- Software or code
- Templates
- Videos
- Watchlist
- Webpages
- Wikitext
| Feedback received and changes implemented to this attribute |
|---|
|
Feedback received:
Changes implemented:
|
Tasks
[edit]What type of task does the tool help with? This is a more precise concept than "use case", which was proposed in the v1 taxonomy and is included in the data model as an annotation. This list of tasks was created as part of the taxonomy research and design process, which sought to map the large, uncontrolled list of tasks represented in various tool categorizations to the following more concise list of values:
Values:
- Analysis
- Annotating and linking
- Archiving and cleanup
- Categorizing and tagging
- Citing and referencing
- Communication and supporting users
- Converting and formatting content
- Creating content
- Deleting and reverting
- Disambiguation
- Downloading or reusing content
- Editing or updating content
- Event and contest planning
- Hosting and maintaining tools
- Identifying policy violations
- Identifying spam
- Identifying vandalism
- Listing and ranking
- Merging content
- Migrating content
- Patrolling recent changes
- Project management and reporting
- Reading
- Recommending content
- Translating and localizing
- Uploading or importing
- User management
- Warning users
| Feedback received and changes implemented to this attribute |
|---|
|
Initial questions:
Feedback received:
Changes to be implemented:
|
Subject Domains
[edit]Is the tool targeted at helping in a specific type of wiki project or topic area?
Values:
- Biography
- Cultural heritage
- Education
- Geography and mapping
- GLAM
- History
- Language and internationalization
- Outreach
- Science
| Feedback received and changes implemented to this attribute |
|---|
|
Attributes proposed but excluded
[edit]| Expand to see attributes that were excluded after feedback and discussion |
|---|
Platforms[edit]Where does the tool run? Proposed values:
Initial questions:
Feedback received:
Decision:
Programming languages[edit]What programming languages does the tool use? Proposed initial set of values and their Wikidata QIDs (see phab:T308030#8045397 for background):
Initial questions:
Feedback received:
Decision:
|
Taxonomy v1
[edit]These categories will be superseded by or integrated into the v2 Toolhub taxonomy described above.
| Categories from Research Phase 1 Data Model |
|---|
Audiences v1[edit]This refers to the audience categories in the Wikimedia Resource Center, which currently are:
Tool use cases[edit]Use cases for tools are represented by a controlled vocabulary meant to represent different purposes a tool may serve. Tools can have multiple use cases. To put it briefly, tools can be used for developing or consuming content, facilitating interactions among community users, writing code, and organizing projects. With respect to content-related tools, the type of content is treated separately from the thing done with the content; appropriate Wikimedia projects to use a given tool on are represented through a separate tool attribute.
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Technical details
[edit]This section mostly serves to document technical implementation details. You don't need to know most of this stuff for day-to-day use.
Toolhub's data model is split into two parts: the tool record and its annotations. Any tool described in Toolhub has a fundamental tool record containing basic information such as the tool name and author. Tool developers have their choice of submitting tool records directly through Toolhub's interface, or by compiling the information in a toolinfo.json file that can be accessed anywhere on the web, including the tool itself or a Git repository, that is then crawled by Toolhub. Note that if tool record data is stored externally in toolinfo.json files, it can only be edited there. We encourage tool developers to host their toolinfo.json files as part of a Git repository so that volunteers can submit pull requests. (Note that the opposite is true as well: if the tool record was originally submitted through Toolhub, it can only be edited through Toolhub. By allowing either one or the other we avoid the risk of conflicts.)
Once Toolhub receives a tool record, volunteers can submit annotations to it. Annotations help make it easier to find tools by supplying additional information. Annotations cannot be stored in toolinfo.json files; they are meant to always be editable by community members.
Some parts of the data model rely on controlled vocabularies, where a field can only be defined using one of several pre-defined terms. Those are described above in #Controlled vocabularies.
Toolinfo schema
[edit]Version 1.2.2
[edit]Version 1.2.2 for the schema, published on 16 March 2022. This schema introduces a new "person" data type and allows it to be used to declare multiple authors. The url_multilingual object definition no longer allows additional undeclared properties to pass validation.
Version 1.2.1 of the schema, published on 06 January 2022. This schema introduces two new tool types: "lua module" and "template".
Version 1.2.0 of the schema, published on 15 October 2021. This schema includes some new fields, but maintains backwards compatibility with the previous 1.1.1 and 1.0.0 schemas.
Changes from 1.1.1:
- Update syntax for json-schema draft 7
- Fix validation rules for "license" property. Prior schema referenced a non-existent spdx schema.
- Add "user_docs_url" property.
- Various description string copy edits.
- MaxLength constraints added for all string types
- Extracted #/definitions/url
- Extracted #/definitions/url_multilingual_or_array
- toolinfo_version replaced by $schema
- toolinfo_language replaced by $language
{
"title": "toolinfo",
"description": "A tool is a piece of software that helps facilitate contribution toward, or consumption of, Wikimedia projects and associated data, not including the core MediaWiki software and its extensions.",
"$id": "/toolinfo/1.2.2",
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
"definitions": {
"tool": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 255,
"description": "Unique identifier for this tool. Must be unique for every tool. It is recommended you prefix your tool names to reduce the risk of clashes.",
"examples": [
"toolforge-admin",
"user-bdavis_wmf-GlobalWatchlistReset.js"
]
},
"title": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 255,
"description": "Human readable tool name. Recommended limit of 25 characters."
},
"description": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 65535,
"description": "A longer description of the tool. The recommended length for a description is 3-5 sentences. Future versions of this schema will impose a character limit."
},
"url": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/url",
"description": "A direct link to the tool or to instructions on how to use or install the tool."
},
"keywords": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 2047,
"description": "[DEPRECATED] Comma-delineated list of keywords. This parameter is deprecated and will be removed in the next major version.",
"$comment": "Remove in version 2."
},
"author": {
"oneOf": [
{
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 255
},
{
"type": "array",
"items": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/person"
}
}
],
"description": "The primary tool developers."
},
"repository": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/url",
"description": "A link to the repository where the tool code is hosted."
},
"subtitle": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 255,
"description": "Longer than the full title but shorter than the description. It should add some additional context to the title."
},
"openhub_id": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 255,
"description": "The project ID on OpenHub. Given a URL of https://openhub.net/p/foo, the project ID is `foo`."
},
"url_alternates": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/url_multilingual"
},
"description": "Alternate links to the tool or install documentation in different natural languages."
},
"bot_username": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 255,
"description": "If the tool is a bot, the Wikimedia username of the bot. Do not include 'User:' or similar prefixes."
},
"deprecated": {
"type": "boolean",
"default": false,
"description": "If true, the use of this tool is officially discouraged. The `replaced_by` parameter can be used to define a replacement."
},
"replaced_by": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/url",
"description": "If this tool is deprecated, this parameter should be used to link to the replacement tool."
},
"experimental": {
"type": "boolean",
"default": false,
"description": "If true, this tool is unstable and can change or go offline at any time."
},
"for_wikis": {
"oneOf": [
{
"type": "array",
"items": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/wiki"
}
},
{
"$ref": "#/definitions/wiki"
}
],
"default": "*",
"description": "A string or array of strings describing the wiki(s) this tool can be used on. Use hostnames such as `zh.wiktionary.org`. Use asterisks as wildcards. For example, `*.wikisource.org` means 'this tool works on all Wikisource wikis.' `*` means 'this works on all wikis, including Wikimedia wikis.'"
},
"icon": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/commons_file",
"description": "A link to a Wikimedia Commons file description page for an icon that depicts the tool."
},
"license": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 255,
"description": "The software license the tool code is available under. Use a standard SPDX license identifier like 'GPL-3.0-or-later'.",
"examples": [
"GPL-2.0-or-later",
"GPL-3.0-or-later"
]
},
"sponsor": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/string_or_string_array",
"description": "Organization that sponsored the tool's development."
},
"available_ui_languages": {
"oneOf": [
{
"type": "array",
"items": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/language"
}
},
{
"$ref": "#/definitions/language"
},
{
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 1,
"enum": [
"*"
]
}
],
"default": "en",
"description": "The language(s) the tool's interface has been translated into. Use ISO 639 language codes like `zh` and `scn`. If not defined it is assumed the tool is only available in English."
},
"technology_used": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/string_or_string_array",
"description": "A string or array of strings listing technologies (programming languages, development frameworks, etc.) used in creating the tool."
},
"tool_type": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 32,
"enum": [
"web app",
"desktop app",
"bot",
"gadget",
"user script",
"command line tool",
"coding framework",
"lua module",
"template",
"other"
],
"description": "The manner in which the tool is used. Select one from the list of options."
},
"api_url": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/url",
"description": "A link to the tool's API, if available."
},
"developer_docs_url": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/url_multilingual_or_array",
"description": "A link to the tool's developer documentation, if available."
},
"user_docs_url": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/url_multilingual_or_array",
"description": "A link to the tool's user documentation, if available."
},
"feedback_url": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/url_multilingual_or_array",
"description": "A link to location where the tool's user can leave feedback."
},
"privacy_policy_url": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/url_multilingual_or_array",
"description": "A link to the tool's privacy policy, if available."
},
"translate_url": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/url",
"description": "A link to the tool's translation interface."
},
"bugtracker_url": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/url",
"description": "A link to the tool's bug tracker on GitHub, Bitbucket, Phabricator, etc."
},
"_schema": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri-reference",
"maxLength": 32,
"description": "A URI identifying the jsonschema for this toolinfo.json record. This should be a short uri containing only the name and revision at the end of the URI path.",
"examples": [
"/toolinfo/1.2.1"
]
},
"_language": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/language",
"default": "en",
"description": "The language in which this toolinfo record is written. If not set, the default value is English. Use ISO 639 language codes."
}
},
"required": [
"name",
"title",
"description",
"url"
]
},
"url": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 2047,
"format": "uri"
},
"wiki": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 255,
"pattern": "^(\\*|(.*)?\\.?(mediawiki|wiktionary|wiki(pedia|quote|books|source|news|versity|data|voyage|media))\\.org)$"
},
"commons_file": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/url",
"pattern": "^https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:.+\\..+$",
"maxLength": 2047
},
"language": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 16,
"pattern": "^(x-.*|[A-Za-z]{2,3}(-.*)?)$"
},
"url_multilingual": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"language": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/language"
},
"url": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/url"
}
},
"additionalProperties": false
},
"url_multilingual_or_array": {
"oneOf": [
{
"type": "array",
"items": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/url_multilingual"
}
},
{
"$ref": "#/definitions/url"
}
]
},
"string_or_string_array": {
"oneOf": [
{
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 255
},
{
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 255
}
}
]
},
"person": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 255,
"description": "The full/formatted name of the person."
},
"wiki_username": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 255,
"description": "The person's Wikimedia username."
},
"developer_username": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 255,
"description": "The person's Wikimedia Developer account username."
},
"email": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 255,
"format": "email",
"description": "Email address"
},
"url": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/url",
"description": "Home page or other URL representing the person."
}
},
"required": [
"name"
],
"additionalProperties": false
}
},
"oneOf": [
{
"type": "array",
"items": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/tool"
}
},
{
"$ref": "#/definitions/tool"
}
]
}
Version 1.1.1
[edit]Version 1.1.0, published on 30 June 2018, updated the schema with new fields while maintaining full backwards compatibility with the previous schema.
Version 1.1.1, published on 13 October 2018, corrects a typographical error from 1.1.0.
The JSON Schema is below.
| toolinfo.json schema v1.1.1 |
|---|
{
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-04/schema#",
"id": "https://tools.wmflabs.org/toolhub/schema/1.1.1",
"title": "Wikimedia Tool",
"description": "A tool is a piece of software that helps facilitate contribution toward, or consumption of, Wikimedia projects and associated data, not including the core wiki software and its extensions",
"version": "1.1.1",
"authors": [
"Hay Kranen",
"James Hare"
],
"definitions": {
"tool": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Unique identifier for tools. Must be unique for every tool. It is recommended you prefix your tool names to reduce the risk of clashes."
},
"title": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Human readable tool name. Recommended limit of 25 characters."
},
"subtitle": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 250,
"description": "Longer than the full title but shorter than the description. It should add some additional context to the title."
},
"openhub_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The project ID on OpenHub. Given a URL https://openhub.net/p/foo, the project ID is `foo`."
},
"description": {
"type": "string",
"description": "A longer description of the tool. The recommended length for a description is 3-5 sentences. Future versions of this schema will impose a character limit."
},
"url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri",
"description": "A direct link to the tool or to instructions on how to use or install the tool."
},
"url_alternates": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/url_multilingual"
}
},
"keywords": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Comma-delineated list of keywords. This parameter is deprecated and will be removed in the next version."
},
"author": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The primary tool developer."
},
"repository": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri",
"description": "A link to the repository where the tool code is hosted."
},
"bot_username": {
"type": "string",
"description": "If the tool is a bot, the Wikimedia username of the bot. Do not include 'User:' or similar prefixes."
},
"deprecated": {
"type": "boolean",
"default": false,
"description": "If true, the use of this tool is officially discouraged. The `replaced_by` parameter can be used to define a replacement."
},
"replaced_by": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri",
"description": "If this tool is deprecated, this parameter should be used to link to the replacement tool."
},
"experimental": {
"type": "boolean",
"default": false,
"description": "If true, this tool is unstable and can change or go offline at any time."
},
"for_wikis": {
"oneOf": [
{
"type": "array",
"items": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/wiki"
}
},
{
"$ref": "#/definitions/wiki"
}
],
"default": "*",
"description": "A string or array of strings describing the wiki(s) this tool can be used on. Use hostnames such as `zh.wiktionary.org`. Use asterisks as wildcards. For example, `*.wikisource.org` means 'this tool works on all Wikisource wikis.' `*` means 'this works on all wikis, including Wikimedia wikis.'"
},
"icon": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/commons_file",
"description": "A link to a Wikimedia Commons file description page for an icon that depicts the tool."
},
"license": {
"$ref": "https://tools.wmflabs.org/spdx/schema/licenses.json#/definitions/license",
"description": "The software license the tool code's is available under. Use a standard SPDX license keyword."
},
"sponsor": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/string_or_string_array",
"description": "Organization that sponsored the tool's development."
},
"available_ui_languages": {
"oneOf": [
{
"type": "array",
"items": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/language"
}
},
{
"$ref": "#/definitions/language"
},
{
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"*"
]
}
],
"default": "en",
"description": "The language(s) the tool's interface has been translated into. Specify this field manually only if the tool does not handle interface translation through translatewiki.net. Use ISO 639 language codes like `zh` and `scn`. If not defined it is assumed the tool is only available in English."
},
"technology_used": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/string_or_string_array",
"description": "A string or array of strings listing technologies (programming languages, development frameworks, etc.) used in creating the tool."
},
"tool_type": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"web app",
"desktop app",
"bot",
"gadget",
"user script",
"command line tool",
"coding framework",
"other"
],
"description": "The manner in which the tool is used. Select one from the list of options."
},
"api_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri",
"description": "A link to the tool's API, if available."
},
"developer_docs_url": {
"oneOf": [
{
"type": "array",
"items": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/url_multilingual"
}
},
{
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
}
],
"description": "A link to the tool's developer documentation, if available."
},
"feedback_url": {
"oneOf": [
{
"type": "array",
"items": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/url_multilingual"
}
},
{
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
}
],
"description": "A link to where tool users can leave feedback."
},
"privacy_policy_url": {
"oneOf": [
{
"type": "array",
"items": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/url_multilingual"
}
},
{
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
}
],
"description": "A link to the tool's privacy policy, if available."
},
"translate_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri",
"description": "A link to the tool translation interface."
},
"bugtracker_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri",
"description": "A link to the tool's bug tracker on GitHub, Bitbucket, Phabricator, etc."
},
"toolinfo_version": {
"type": "integer",
"default": 1,
"description": "The major version number of the Toolinfo schema used. The default value assumed is 1, referring to versions 1.0.0 and 1.1.0."
},
"toolinfo_language": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/language",
"default": "en",
"description": "The language the toolinfo record is written if, if not the default value of English. Use ISO 639 language codes."
}
},
"required": [
"name",
"title",
"description",
"url"
]
},
"wiki": {
"type": "string",
"pattern": "^(%5C*|(.*)?%5C.?(mediawiki|wiktionary|wiki(pedia|quote|books|source|news|versity|data|voyage|tech|media|mediafoundation))%5C.org)$"
},
"commons_file": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri",
"pattern": "^https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:.+%5C..+$"
},
"language": {
"type": "string",
"pattern": "^(x-.*|[A-Za-z]{2,3}(-.*)?)$"
},
"url_multilingual": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"language": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/language"
},
"url": {
"type": "string",
"pattern": "uri"
}
}
},
"string_or_string_array": {
"oneOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
}
}
]
}
},
"oneOf": [
{
"type": "array",
"items": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/tool"
}
},
{
"$ref": "#/definitions/tool"
}
]
}
|
Version 1.0.0
[edit]Hay's Tool Directory established a de facto standard for describing Wikimedia tools using JSON files. This standard has been retroactively established as version 1.0.0 of the toolinfo JSON schema.
| toolinfo.json schema v1.0.0 |
|---|
{
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
"title": "Wikimedia Tool",
"description": "A tool is a piece of software that helps facilitate contribution toward, or consumption of, a Wikimedia project, not including the core wiki software and its extensions",
"version": "1.0.0",
"authors": [
"Hay Kranen",
"James Hare"
],
"definitions": {
"tool": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "string"
},
"title": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": {
"type": "string"
},
"url": {
"type": "string"
},
"keywords": {
"type": "string"
},
"author": {
"type": "string"
},
"repository": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"name",
"title",
"description",
"url"
]
}
},
"oneOf": [
{
"type": "array",
"items": {
"$ref": "#/definitions/tool"
}
},
{
"type": "object",
"$ref": "#/definitions/tool"
}
]
}
|
Annotations
[edit]These are additional pieces of data that can be used to describe tools. Annotations cannot be submitted through toolinfo files; they are meant to be submitted through Toolhub only.
Current planned annotations include:
- Additional info – expands on the tool description.
- Audiences – Wikimedia Resource Center audiences.
- Broken – yes/no flag to indicate that a tool is no longer working, with the username of the person making that report and an associated report.
- Collections – community-curated groupings of tools.
- Documentation URL – link to user documentation, including both official documentation and user-generated documentation.
- Official maintainer – the people who are currently responsible for maintaining the tool's code.
- Related topics – links between tools and Wikidata items as another way of describing tools.
- Screenshots – visual aids showing the tool in use.
- Testers – people who have signed up to test new versions of the tool.
- Use cases – controlled vocabulary outlining different uses for tools.
- Video – tutorials and other such audio-visual guides.
- Volunteer (user assistance) – people who have volunteered to help other users with using the tool.
- Wikidata item ID – the Wikidata item ID for the tool.
Automated data inputs
[edit]Automatically generated data will help factor into tool relevance. Note that not all of these will be available right away, nor will they be available for every tool.
- Tool availability – is the tool up? When was the last time it was up? How often is the tool down?
- Translators – credits for translation, based on translatewiki.net statistics.
- Total gadget users – based on data from the wikis
- Active gadget users – based on data from the wikis
- Web hits – for Toolforge tools, based on data from Toolforge
- Unique devices – nice to have, but would probably be harder to accomplish in practice
- Last updated – based on changes to git repository, probably?
- Wikis where used – for gadgets
- Toolforge maintainers
- ↑ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Toolhub/Data_model/Feedback#Do_these_categories_(attributes)_make_sense?
- ↑ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Toolhub/Data_model/Feedback#Do_you_feel_like_you_understand_what_the_labels_(values)_in_each_category_mean?_(are_the_values_sensible?)
- ↑ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Toolhub/Data_model/Feedback#Anything_else?"
- ↑ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Toolhub/Data_model/Feedback#Anything_else?
- ↑ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Toolhub#Tasks:_Creating_vs_uploading
- ↑ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Toolhub#Tasks:_Adding/Updating
- ↑ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Toolhub/Data_model/Feedback#Do_you_feel_like_you_understand_what_the_labels_(values)_in_each_category_mean?_(are_the_values_sensible?)
- ↑ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Toolhub/Data_model/Feedback#Anything_else?
- ↑ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Toolhub/Data_model/Feedback#Anything_else?
- ↑ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Toolhub/Data_model/Feedback
- ↑ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Toolhub/Data_model/Feedback#Programming_languages