Quim Gil wrote:
Hi, the Engineering Community team is working on a plan to evolve onto a Developer Relations team. This is not just a change of name. See
Your feedback is welcome, in the wiki page or here.
Related task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97283
Hi.
In the "Developer offering" section, I see "APIs to extract, publish, edit, and monitor Wikimedia content from external apps and services." Does this mean that your team will be developing new APIs? For example, to add or remove a category from a page. Or to extract information out of Wiktionary and Wikisource.
"Developer Relations" makes me think this is closer to public relations, or marketing and branding for Wikimedia's APIs. I'm not sure that's a good use of resources. Event coordination seems like a much better fit.
I see mentions of "Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016" and "Wikimedia Hackathon 2016" on the page. Has the MediaWiki Developer Summit been renamed? And is the Wikimedia Hackathon the one that takes place at Wikimania or a different one?
Can someone please remind me why dev.wikimedia.org is needed? We have https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute linked from the footer of every Wikimedia wiki as a "Developers" link. If you want a shorter, more memorable URL, can't we just make dev.wikimedia.org a redirect to the "How to contribute" page and be done with it? Any additional documentation and showcasing can be done on mediawiki.org wiki pages. Why all the fuss?
MZMcBride