Why shouldn't end users know? Some end users are able to use an API. I prefer to not take the pedantic 'dont break your pretty little head on our API' route On Sep 18, 2012 8:15 AM, "Max Semenik" maxsem.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
On 18.09.2012, 5:04 MZMcBride 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?
Project:Help is for end-users, none of them knows or should know what an API is.
-- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])
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