I'm afraid that my opposition is rather frivolous, but is the ratio of
developers to laymen enough to justify adding the "extra" burden? It seems
some others have noted that if we include a developer hub, we can't stop
there. I could propose a research hub, a librarian hub, a photographer hub.
A developer outreach program might be better as it's unlikely anyone ever
even reads the links at the bottom.
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Risker <risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Without wanting to take away from the value of this
suggestion, I'll just
point out that there's also not a link to "Become an Editor" either.
("Create an account" doesn't really count, lots of people have accounts
who
never edit.) I'll be the first to admit I'm in awe of the brain power on
this list, so this may be assuming too much of the intellect of developers
generally, but it's been my observation that those who are smart enough,
and interested enough, to write code....usually find their way around
pretty well.
I think RobLa's point is well taken, though. Decide what you want to say to
prospective developers, and make sure the landing page is welcoming and
useful, before you send anyone there.
Best,
Risker
On 19 September 2012 20:12, Tomasz Finc <tfinc(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I really wish I could just got to
http://developer.wikimedia.org/
and/or
http://developer.wikipedia.org
--tomasz
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Jon Robson <jdlrobson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think we should point to a developer hub but
the current one needs to
be
massively revised!
On Sep 19, 2012 4:51 PM, "Rob Lanphier" <robla(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Quim Gil <quimgil(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > If the primary target are app developers then
> >
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page + improvements is
probably
> a
better target.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_hub
>
> See full reasoning at
>
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33464#c8
Generally, we want a single link that encapsulates everything a
developer might be interested in (Gadgets, MediaWiki extensions, the
web API, data dumps, bot infrastructure like pywikipediabot, MediaWiki
core development, generally volunteering, etc). API:Main_page (for
better or worse) is focused on our web API.
Rob
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