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The MediaWiki Toolserver is home of a number of interesting tools, many of which by User:Duesentrieb. Here are some:

CategoryTree

http://tools.wikimedia.de/~daniel/WikiSense/CategoryTree.php

Lets you dynamically browse the categories of a number of Wikipedias in tree view. Put into the sidebar of your browser, this is useful to quickly browse a Wikipedia and to see what's already there (example). If you start from category root (example, it's fascinating to see how complex some Wikipedias already are. I'll try to integrate this script into some of my own wikis.

CatScan

http://tools.wikimedia.de/~daniel/WikiSense/CategoryIntersect.php

Lets you search categories recursively, for intersection with other categories, subcategories, templates, stubs, recent changes and images. Stubs search would be useful on one of my own wikis where I use stubs a lot. Great tool for watching all images of a category on a single page, too (example).

Gallery

http://tools.wikimedia.de/~daniel/WikiSense/Gallery.php

Another image handling tool. Lets you see browse all images of a Wikipedia, shows usage and tagging status and has optional filtering or grouping by user. Good to quickly see which newly uploaded images are untagged or orphaned (example) or to see all images provided by a specific user (example).

Even more

Wikisign lets you issue SQL SELECT statement to a number of Wikipedias.

Personendaten - example use of the Personendaten metadata embedded into many Wikipedia articles.

Related

The Wiki Research Bibliography "is meant to collect all scientific literature about Wikis."

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