... and add in any resources that may be missing to those pages.
with kind regards,
dan
On Sep 18, 2012, at 9:37 AM, aude wrote:
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:04 AM, MZMcBride
<z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:
Hi.
There's a fairly straightforward request to add an API/Developer/Developer
Hub link to the footer of Wikimedia wikis, near the "Disclaimers",
"Mobile
view", etc. links: <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33464>.
This should be fairly trivial to implement, but I wanted to check if there
were any objections to such an idea. The basic rationale for including such
a link is that other sites such as Twitter and Facebook and Wordnik have
similar links. This kind of link encourages viewers to become involved in
development for the project (e.g., Wikipedia), as opposed to the MediaWiki
logo, which serves a somewhat different purpose/functionality.
Assuming there aren't any objections to the idea, the only remaining
question seems to be where to point such a link. Brandon suggested
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Help>. I'm wondering if there's an
"API basics" FAQ or something similar on
mediawiki.org that could be
included in whatever landing page is chosen. Something that includes common
questions about the API such as "What formats are available?", "Do I need
an
API key?" (which I think is a pretty major question to answer, given how
many other APIs I've come across work), "How can I get started developing
for Wikimedia wikis?", etc. Does anyone know if such a page exists already?
I am not aware of such pages, but think a developers page should also have
something about dumps and they might also be interested to know they can
customize Wikipedia with user css, JavaScript, gadgets, etc. Information
about the API is good too and maybe reporting a bug. :)
Cheers,
Katie
MZMcBride
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