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'''Tools''', broadly speaking, are [[w:Application software|software applications]] that interact with the Wikimedia projects but are not fully integrated with them. Tools can be thought of as "external" to the wikis, meaning MediaWiki extensions would not be considered tools. |
'''Tools''', broadly speaking, are [[w:Application software|software applications]] that interact with the Wikimedia projects but are not fully integrated with them. Tools can be thought of as "external" to the wikis, meaning [[mw:Manual:Extensions|MediaWiki extensions]] would not be considered tools. |
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Tools can be used for many purposes, including identifying quick editing tasks, semi-automatically performing a large number of very similar edits, visualizing data, extracting metadata, and editing and using wiki content in general. |
Tools can be used for many purposes, including identifying quick editing tasks, semi-automatically performing a large number of very similar edits, visualizing data, extracting metadata, and editing and using wiki content in general. |
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Revision as of 01:49, 28 March 2018
Tools, broadly speaking, are software applications that interact with the Wikimedia projects but are not fully integrated with them. Tools can be thought of as "external" to the wikis, meaning MediaWiki extensions would not be considered tools.
Tools can be used for many purposes, including identifying quick editing tasks, semi-automatically performing a large number of very similar edits, visualizing data, extracting metadata, and editing and using wiki content in general.
Different services have made computing resources and web hosting available free of charge to tool developers, starting with Wikimedia Deutschland's Toolserver from 2005 to 2014 and the Wikimedia Foundation's Toolforge (formerly Tool Labs) since 2013.