Birgit Müller

Wiki communities around the globe have diverse use cases and technical needs. Volunteer developers are often the first to find and address those use cases. They experiment with new ideas, build local and global solutions and bridge workflow gaps in our software. There are incredibly many great tools out there. '''It’s time to celebrate this!''' The ''Coolest Tool Academy'' is hosting the first ever '''[[m:Coolest_Tool_Award|Coolest Tool Award]]'''. We will ask for nominations in July, and showcase the winners of the Coolest Tool Award 2019 in this session. Join us to learn about tools & celebrate the people who build them! The Coolest Tool Academy.

Wiki communities often face similar technical challenges. How can we ensure knowledge transfer from one wiki to another? How can wikis adapt bots, templates, and tools from others to not reinvent the wheel? What kind of support is needed to strengthen technical knowledge & skills in communities that don’t have many or any technical contributors? In this session we would like to discuss challenges of smaller and medium-sized wiki communities, bridge the gap between developer and editor communities and come up with ideas to build technical capacity & knowledge across wikis. The session is related to the Wikimania Hackathon focus area [[phab:T221394|Small Wiki Toolkits]].