On 20 September 2012 08:54, Quim Gil <quimgil(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 2:11 AM, Erik Moeller
<erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
the utter open sourceness
of our codebase is what sets us apart, so we should make it clear
pretty prominently on our dev hub.
(...)
With that said, I agree that the dev hub
currently is pretty much
inside baseball and we should try to make it more understandable if we
prominently link it from every footer of every page.
Alright, let's move onto the next round: which dev hub?
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_developer_hub
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_hub
mediawiki.org is a better default landing place for developers than
Meta, do you agree?
Is it worth considering the merge of both pages, as it has been suggested?
And in any case the API should be promoted upfront. Now the Meta hub
has no mention (I could find) while the dense MediaWiki hub features
the link if you are patient to find it (or you use the search, as I
did).
Of course, we already have a link to the
mediawiki.org front page on
every page we serve - that's what the "Powered by MediaWiki" button
links to. There, the four most prominent links are:
*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
*
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Installation
*
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration
*
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker
I assumed that the point of this additional link was to take people to
our API because we already use our bully-pulpit to ask for more
developers quite strongly, but people who want to use us as a service
need to dig further to even know we have one. If all we're doing is
duplicating the general "hey, you're a techy person" link with another
text label, this exercise will have lost its value.
J.
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