- The mediawiki homepage puts ME off. This is mainly because I'm more
interested in doing things with the data on wikipedia rather than the software that runs Wikipedia. I think this is the problem we are trying to solve - there are many different types of developers out there and we need something generic to appeal to as many of them as possible.
I want to add something a little more general to this point. I think we can avoid appealing to _people_ in this page, and instead appeal to _actions_. I wrote about it on the RFC [0], but I'll repeat myself briefly here.
I don't think that throwing people into buckets (i.e., appealing to types of developers) is a useful way to think about this. If you want to *make MediaWiki better*, we send you to a more specific page about how to develop, translate, code review, and document. If you want to *set up or change a MediaWiki site*, we send you to a page with documentation on configuration, performance tweaks, and extensions. If you want to *use MediaWiki sites*, we send you to a page with editing help, information about user permissions, how to use the interface, and so on. We could split this up further, or differently. We could include the same link in multiple pages (e.g., pages about extensions could go in many categories).
My point is, I think we could accomplish much the same, maybe more, without lumping people together, when we actually mean to group actions.
[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Requests_for_comment/MediaWiki.org_Main_...