[Labs-l] Plan for improving Tool Labs docs this week

[Silke Meyer]

Thanks a lot, Kirsten and Sumana!
:) Silke


On 21.08.2013 06:11, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
> On 08/16/2013 06:23 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
> Subject: Re: Plan for improving Tool Labs docs next week
>> At Wikimania, I sat in on one of the three sessions about Tool Labs
>> (thank you, Coren, Ryan, and Silke for doing those!), and asked about
>> barriers to switching.  Aside from the storage issues, it sounds like
>> people get lost in obsolete documentation.  So I spoke with Kirsten
>> today and we've come up with a plan: what do you think?
>>
>> 1. Between now and Tuesday 20 August, Kirsten will improve
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Kmenger/ToolLabsGuide (the product
>> of the July doc sprint) and fill in Pywikipedia and Git/Gerrit stuff.
>> You are welcome to improve it right now to correct errors.
> 
> Done.
> 
>> 2. On Tuesday, we'll replace the Tool Labs help page(s) on
>> wikitech.wikimedia.org with the new Tool Labs Guide.
> 
> Done.
> 
> In the next couple days it would also be good to clean up
> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Tools#Useful_links ,
> link appropriately to
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Labs/Tool_Labs/Migration_of_Toolserver_tools
> , ensure that all the questions from
> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Move_your_bot_to_Labs&oldid=11520#Set_up_your_bot
> get answered in
> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Tools/Help , and add
> more terms to https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Terminology .  I
> would love help with these odds and ends.
> 
>> 3. A couple of days after that, we'll publicize the new guide via IRC,
>> social media, labs-l, maybe blog.wikimedia.org, various WMF
>> wikis/village pumps/the weekly Tech News/etc.
>> 4. Hopefully on Friday of next week, I'll hold an IRC sprint to consult
>> with Ryan, Silke, and Coren and start to go through other current Tool
>> Labs-related documentation to update/redirect/obsolete everything.
>> Anyone who wants to can get started with the updating right now, of
>> course.  See the list below and suggestions for what to do with each
>> page -- thanks for compiling this, Kirsten!
>>
>> Does this sound good?  I shall read silence as consent. :-)
> 
> I've gotten silence or +1 from various folks, so we're moving ahead with
> this. :-)
> 


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