[Labs-l] Tool Labs documentation sprint July 23-25

[Kirsten Menger-Anderson]

Hi all-

Just wanted to let you know that I made a back-up of the etherpad doc
sprint here:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Kmenger/ToolLabsSprint
(original pad: http://etherpad.wmflabs.org/pad/p/Tool_Labs_Sprint_July_23)

I also moved the draft-in-progress to a wiki page in my user space:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Kmenger/ToolLabsGuide

Thanks to everyone who contributed!

Kirsten


On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah at wikimedia.org
> wrote:

> On 07/19/2013 03:37 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
> > A bunch of us are going to concentrate on improving documentation
> > relating to Tool Labs next week, July 23-25.  Now that obsolete docs can
> > now be moved to their own namespace, "Obsolete", on
> > wikitech.wikimedia.org, and now that WMF contractor Kirsten
> > Menger-Anderson is working on a plan for improving documentation, it's a
> > good time to do a big refresh.
> >
> > I personally want:
> > * HOWTOs, references, and examples for people settling in and using Tool
> > Labs - we have some to consolidate and clarify
> > * tweaks to improve http://tools.wmflabs.org/ (the automatically
> > generated inventory of bots and tools in Tool Labs)
> > * a clearer inventory of available services
> > * a curated directory of popular tools/bots that are already settled in,
> > and some ideas for case studies to feature on blog.wikimedia.org
> >
> > Kirsten's going to send out a plan of attack, and we can all collaborate
> > on an Etherpad, onwiki, and in #wikimedia-labs during the sprint.
> > Looking forward to helping out!
>
> Kirsten, Yuvi, Ryan, Coren, Silke, and a few other folks have helped out
> with
> http://etherpad.wmflabs.org/pad/p/Tool_Labs_Sprint_July_23
>  and we still need a lot of help!  Here are bits that we'd especially
> like your help fleshing out:
>
> Section 9. Developing on Tool Labs (especially "how to use
> <programming-language-X> to write tools on labs'" and "where to put
> shared Tool code", working with cookies and pywikipediabot, and any
> tips/tricks/useful knowledge) -- line 426 on the Etherpad right now.
>
> Section 8.4: Scheduling jobs at regular intervals with cron (including
> Creating a crontab and specifying time zones) -- line 416 in the Etherpad
>
> Section 7.3: Joins between commons and wikidata and other project
> databases -- line 394 right now
>
>
> For each section, Kirsten has listed links that have some info already,
> so you don't even need to do too much research. :) Come join us!
> --
> Sumana Harihareswara
> Engineering Community Manager
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
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