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@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@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@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@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Quim Gil quimgil@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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