About me

About me

• Nerd snipped into using Tool Labs

About me

• Nerd snipped into using Tool Labs
• Wikimedian, but not a Wikipedian

About me

• Nerd snipped into using Tool Labs
• Wikimedian, but not a Wikipedian
• Paid to think about making Tool Labs better

All tools are unique snowflakes

Some ways that things can go wrong

It's the little things

A perfect storm

Best practices

• Pick a license
• Publish the code
• Have multiple maintainers
• Write some documentation

Pick a license

Publish the code

Have multiple maintainers

Write some documentation

Spread the word!

• Pick a license
• Publish the code
• Have multiple maintainers
• Write some documentation

Q & A

Going beyond the minimum

• Use version control
• Use a bug tracker
• Put maintenance docs on Wikitech
• Put end-user docs on a wiki
• Build on the work of others
• One problem; one tool

Where to get help

• Talk to other wikis
• Talk to other developers
• irc / phabricator / labs-l mailing list

Shameless plugs

• [[meta:Requests for comment/Abandoned Labs tools]]
• Interest in forming a group to review projects and mentor developers?

Credits

• Except where otherwise noted - Copyright 2016 Bryan Davis, CC BY-SA 4.0
• deck.js - Copyright Caleb Troughton, MIT License
• jQuery - Copyright jQuery Foundation, Inc., MIT License
• Modernizr - Copyright Faruk Ates, Paul Irish, Alex Sexton, MIT License
• Solarized - Copyright Ethan Schoonover, MIT License