On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 23:45:31 +0200, tic(a)tictric.net <tic(a)tictric.net> wrote:
Am Sat, 23 Oct 2004 00:26:14 +0300 hat NSK
<nsk2(a)wikinerds.org>
geschrieben:
> I think the software would benefit from better documentation, especially
> documentation for programmers.
This, believe it or not, is Bug Number 1 in our bug tracker.
Seriously:
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/1 In other words: yes, we
know [I like Brion's initial comment on that report :D]
I think it
would be a good idea if you could launch a site which will be a
wiki dedicated only to MW software.
I don't know how long you know Mediawiki for already but the documentation
has improved beyond recognition.
While there was still 1.2.x there was hardly any doc at all.
One of the recent creations is generated-from-comments code
documentation at
http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/mwdoc/
Just add some of that documentation you are missing to
meta.wikipedia.org
and it will improve further. This site is dedicated to mw only.
Actually, this is incorrect:
meta.wikimedia.org is a wiki for
discussion of the Wikimedia group of projects, and also for the
MediaWiki software developed for and used by them. [If you're
confused, see
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Names ;-p] So in some
ways, it's not as specific as it could be, but the crossover is
probably useful at least as often as its problematic. And with the
Help: pages, the user side should theoretically be much more helpful
soon.
Not entirely related, but I think it would be nice if someone could
make
bugzilla.mediawiki.org {be|point to|be an alias of} the address
for the bug tracker, {rather than|as well as}
bugzilla.wikimedia.org,
since it's primarily for bugs in the MediaWiki software, not the
Wikimedia sites.
--
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]