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Category Archives: Wikimedia

In the pipeline

Over the years, the toolserver, mostly organised and financed by Wikimedia Deutschland, has become an invaluable asset to many Wikimedia projects. However, the open access policy of the toolserver, which enabled many volunteers to write helpful tools, comes at a price. Most tools are “stand-alone”; they perform a single function, and the results are usually a [...]

Shoot me!

In my continuing “toolspam” series, I would like to introduce a tool for all Wikimedians traveling with a camera (and maybe a smartphone), and the will to use it. I call it Wiki ShootMe!.

Commons Commander

After many years of resistance, I have finally succumbed to the temptation of blogging (just when blogs come out of fashion, it seems…). I would like to start by writing about something rather familiar to me: some of the tools I developed for Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. I hope to reach more people than [...]