Hi, anybody interested in participating at the
Open Help Conference & Sprints September 26-30 Cincinnati, Ohio, USA http://conf.openhelp.cc/
A Wikimedia expedition attended a couple of years ago with a Wikipedia & user help focus, and they were happy about the event.
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/03/wikipedians-open-help-conference/
Lately we are focusing on users of our APIs, datasets, tools, infrastructure... Would it make sense to organize something at that event?
Wikimedia volunteers, remember that we might be able to support your travel expenses.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS
Hi Quim,
I am interested to be a part of this event.
This event seems to be a really nice opportunity to showcase the recently built REST API (rest.wikimedia.org). I was thinking something like a introductory session on the REST API, but it depends on the kind of audience we are targeting on because the API docs are self explanatory and are well received so far.
Let me know if you have something specific in your minds? and what kind of audience are we targeting on?
Regards, Hardik Juneja
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 4:48 AM, hardik juneja hardikjuneja.hj@gmail.com wrote:
I am interested to be a part of this event.
Poetic! ;) Let's organize something.
Let me know if you have something specific in your minds?
The main point I have in mind is that I will not be the driver and I will not travel to this event. S Page, what do you think?
Quim Gil wrote
Hi, anybody interested in participating at the
Open Help Conference & Sprints September 26-30 Cincinnati, Ohio, USA http://conf.openhelp.cc/
Lately we are focusing on users of our APIs, datasets, tools, infrastructure... Would it make sense to organize something at that event?
I'm moderately interested in going to see how other projects deal with versioning documentation, auto-generating documentation, incorporating sample code in documentation and vice-versa, etc.
If anyone working on mediawiki.org or wikitech documentation (documentation of MediaWiki , APIs, developing, labs, tool labs, etc.) plans to attend that doubles my interest level, we could productively sprint on any of those areas.
A Wikimedia expedition attended a couple of years ago with a Wikipedia &
user help focus, and they were happy about the event.
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/03/wikipedians-open-help-conference/
From the blog post I just learned the 2013 visit produced
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Starter_kit , an alternative to "How to contribute."
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 7:48 PM, hardik juneja hardikjuneja.hj@gmail.com wrote:
This event seems to be a really nice opportunity to showcase the recently built REST API (rest.wikimedia.org). I was thinking something like a introductory session on the REST API, but it depends on the kind of audience we are targeting on because the API docs are self explanatory and are well received so far.
As I understand it, this is a hands-on conference about writing better help documentation. It's great that https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/html/Sheep returns the fast cached HTML of the wiki page, and RESTBase's Swagger-generated doc is nifty, but how do you see that relating to the conference?
Cheers, -- =S Page WMF Tech writer
wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org