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November 2025 committee nominations
December 2016 committee nominations
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The following Tool Labs members have been nominated for appointment to the Tool Labs standards committee. Self-nominations are acceptable. Nominations by a third party should be counter-signed by the nomination to indicate they would accept the responsibility and be willing to sign the
Volunteer NDA
Nominee
Nominated by
Counter signed if not self nominated
Harej
BryanDavis
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Harej
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08:13, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
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Multichill
BryanDavis
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Matanya
BryanDavis
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matanya
talk
12:59, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
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Cyberpower678
Self-nom
Zhuyifei1999
Self-nom
Magnus Manske
yuvipanda
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Quiddity
yuvipanda
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Quiddity
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19:20, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
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Tom29739
yuvipanda
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Tom29739
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00:17, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
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Jean-Frédéric
Quiddity
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Jean-Frédéric
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13:14, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
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Lokal Profil
Quiddity
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Huji
Quiddity
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huji
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00:23, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
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Eranroz
Quiddity
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eranroz
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23:43, 24 December 2016 (UTC)
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Ladsgroup
huji
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Ladsgroup
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01:20, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
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Proposal feedback
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Alex Monk
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22:35, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
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legoktm
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18:12, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
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Support
Dalba
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10:19, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
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Support
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Tim Landscheidt
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22:15, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
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huji
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00:26, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
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Nice! —
billinghurst
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11:04, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
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Help with Toolforge tool with unknown license
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Hi Standards Committee,
I'm in the process of taking over VICbot, a Commons bot created by
Dschwen
toolforge entry
), I'm taking it over because the maintainer isn't very active these days and the bot was not doing its job. The source code is available on-wiki at
c:User:VICbot/source
, so getting the source code isn't the problem - the problem is that it has no license. Obviously, by publishing on-wiki it's available as CC-BY-SA 3.0, but a) that isn't a great choice for code, and b) that isn't an acceptable license for toolforge. I have contacted the bot's creator both on their talk page about me operating a fork of the bot (last week) and via email asking about licensing (earlier today), but I don't think I'm going to get a response, so I'm not sure how to approach this problem. If someone could see if there is a license in the copy of the tool running on toolforge, that would be very helpful; failing that, any advice on how to deal with this would be much appreciated.
GeneralNotability
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01:59, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
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The code is at /data/project/vic/vic_bot on Toolforge, but it does not have a license. —
JJMC89
02:22, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
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JJMC89
thanks - didn't realize that would be publicly accessible. Oh well, it was worth a shot.
GeneralNotability
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02:52, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
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August 2024 committee nominations
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Tracked in
Phabricator
Task T370474
The Toolforge standards committee (née Tool Labs standards committee) was established in 2017 following a membership
nomination process in December 2016
. There have been no formal membership changes in the subsequent 7 years. Per the original charter of the committee, the process for membership changes is to be handled on an as-needed basis at the discretion of the Wikimedia Foundation.
As a representative of the Wikimedia Foundation,
BryanDavis
has initiated this nomination process in order to establish a new quorum of three or more active committee members. Any Toolforge project member with a Developer account not blocked in any Wikimedia technical space is eligible for nomination. Self-nominations are acceptable. Nominations by a third party should be counter-signed by the nominee to indicate they would accept the responsibility and be willing to sign the
Volunteer NDA
. Nominations will remain open until at least 2024-08-26.
Wikimedia Foundation staff will work with folks who are successfully nominated to pursue the required Volunteer NDA following the close of the nomination period. No community voting phase will be used in this iteration of the process. Appointment to the committee will be at the discretion of the Wikimedia Foundation. Appointees will be made from the list of nominees who accept their nomination and succeed in signing the Volunteer NDA.
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A summary of the conclusions reached follows.
Nominations closed August 26, 2024, End of Day,
Anywhere on Earth
(AoE) (2024-08-27T12:00Z). Nominees submitted prior to the close of nominations will be contacted to pursue the required Volunteer NDA before being appointed to the committee. Once established the new committee membership will be announced on
cloud-announce@lists.wikimedia.org
The following Toolforge members have been nominated for appointment to the Toolforge standards committee:
Nominee
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JJMC89
BryanDavis
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JJMC89
20:40, 5 August 2024 (UTC)
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Pintoch
BryanDavis
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Pintoch
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14:14, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
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Lucas Werkmeister
Lucas Werkmeister
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20:33, 10 August 2024 (UTC)
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Legoktm
Legoktm
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05:35, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
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Waldyrious
tgr
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Waldyrious
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17:02, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
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SD0001
SD0001
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08:27, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
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MusikAnimal
MusikAnimal
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20:47, 21 August 2024 (UTC)
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Theprotonade
Theprotonade
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23:32, 27 August 2024 (UTC)
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20:23, 5 August 2024 (UTC)
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November 2025 committee nominations
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Once the required Volunteer NDAs are completed, the new committee will be appointed and announced on cloud-announce@. —
JJMC89
14:01, 23 December 2025 (UTC)
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Following the
TFSC's revision to the appointment process
from appointment as needed by the Foundation to an annual appointment by the existing committee, this is the first annual appointment nomination period.
Any Toolforge project member in good standing (not blocked in any Wikimedia technical space) is eligible for nomination. Self-nominations are acceptable. Nominations by a third party must be counter-signed by the nominee to indicate they would accept the responsibility and be willing to sign the
Volunteer NDA
Following the nomination period there will be a two-week period for the Toolforge admins and community to provide feedback on the nominees to the current committee. Following the feedback, the current committee will vote on the nominees. Nominees approved by the committee must sign the Volunteer NDA to be appointed to the committee.
JJMC89
18:21, 5 November 2025 (UTC)
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Nominations
The nomination period is open through 2025-11-28.
Nominee
Nominated by
Counter signed if not self nominated
Sohom Datta
Sohom Datta
JJMC89
BryanDavis
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JJMC89
Lucas Werkmeister
BryanDavis
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Lucas Werkmeister
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Pintoch
BryanDavis
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Pintoch
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SD0001
BryanDavis
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SD0001
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EggRoll97
EggRoll97
Nominee feedback
Feedback on the nominees by email was open through 2025-12-12. No feedback was received.
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Activity
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Has there been activity of the current committee that is not visible with
this Phabricator query
taavi
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18:32, 4 December 2025 (UTC)
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I believe all of the direct
abandoned tool policy
assistance rendered by the committee should be included in that query. The committee's
private mailing list
discussions and the partial committee meetup during
Wikimedia Hackathon 2025
are not captured in Phabricator. The most impactful outcome to date of non-public discussions was the
updated appointment process
and the subsequent
#November 2025 committee nominations
iteration. --
BryanDavis
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18:50, 4 December 2025 (UTC)
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