I have a collection of tools around images (or these days files in general) and their use on the various Wikimedia projects, that run under a single Toolforge tool name. These are:
- FIST, the Free Image Search Tool, where you can find images for Wikipedia articles on various sources, including Commons, Flickr, the Internet Archive, Nasa etc.
- WDFIST, to find images on Commons to use on Wikidata
- WD4WP, to find images used on Wikidata that could also be used on Wikipedia articles that lack an image (example: German Wikipedia)
- File Candidates, a collection of files from both Commons and Flickr that could be used in Wikidata items, but were automatically gathered beforehand (e.g. taxonomic species)
These tools have been around many years, with FIST predating Wikidata. They were in various states of decay, WDFIST holding up best, the original FIST tool a broken PHP script. So I thought to bring them up to date a bit.
FIST was completely rewritten into FIST2. File Candidates was absorbed into WDFIST as a way to find candidate images. All tools were upgraded to use Vue2 ES6 JavaScript modules. They now share common, reusable components, and a common visual language. And all of them should work better on mobile, especially WDFIST. Also, all tools are hardened against the recent Wikimedia API rate limits, with automatic retries, and keeping API queries to an absolute minimum. I hope that these refurbished tools will be of use to people, so happy (re-)discovery!