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On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 5:32 AM, MZMcBride <z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:
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?
No, we will coordinate with the teams developing Web APIs, contributing to
the documentation and promotion of these APIs. We will also help channeling
feedback received from developers about bugs or missing features related to
these APIs.
"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.
"Developer Relations" is a quite standard name for this quite standard
function. We can discuss about the name, but what matters is the mission,
strategy, and measurement of success of this team as defined in the
proposal. Event coordination is part of this work, but there is more.
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?
About "Wikimedia Developer Summit", see
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104346#1417364. In any case, this is the
event planned for January 2016 in San Francisco.
Wikimedia Hackathon is the event that goes after, recently held in Lyon,
next one in Jerusalem.
The Wikimania Hackathon is the third major tech event.
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?
That part needs to be updated. Since yesterday there is no plan for a
memorable URL "dev.wikimedia.org". See
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308#1437088, and your comments about
this specific topic are welcomed there.
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Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil