<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494608323179_6067"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494608323179_6267">Hello,</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494608323179_6125"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494608323179_6126">Thanks for bringing this up. Hay's Directory looks like a perfect place to discover new tools.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494608323179_6228"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494608323179_6126"><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494608323179_6227"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494608323179_6126">Happy Documentation Day to all!</span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Friday, May 5, 2017 4:07 AM, Bryan Davis <bd808@wikimedia.org> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div dir="ltr">Some of you may have seen the announcement of a MediaWiki<br></div><div dir="ltr">Documentation Day on 2017-04-12 by Ryan Kaldari on the wikitech-l<br></div><div dir="ltr">list. If not I'm including the message as a forward here as well.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I'd like to both promote and hijack this event for Labs and Tool Labs<br></div><div dir="ltr">audiences. In the last two Tool Labs user surveys, documentation and<br></div><div dir="ltr">particularly tutorial content has gotten a lot of mentions. I'll be<br></div><div dir="ltr">spending as much time as I can on 2017-04-12 fixing up and creating<br></div><div dir="ltr">docs on wikitech. I'd like to invite all of you to join in as well.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Here are some ideas of things that people could do to contribute to<br></div><div dir="ltr">making Wikimedia's technical docs better:<br></div><div dir="ltr">* Create a phabricator task tagged with #Documentation and #Labs or<br></div><div dir="ltr">#Tool-Labs asking for specific docs you wish somebody would write.<br></div><div dir="ltr">* Look at the list of requested docs<br></div><div dir="ltr">(<<a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/lRIvFBgB3Zqd/" target="_blank">https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/lRIvFBgB3Zqd/</a>>)<br></div><div dir="ltr">and see if you can help write them.<br></div><div dir="ltr">* Document the tools that you maintain on wikitech by creating a page<br></div><div dir="ltr">in the Tool namespace<br></div><div dir="ltr">(<<a href="https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tool_Labs_tools" target="_blank">https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tool_Labs_tools</a>>).<br></div><div dir="ltr">* Add your tools to Hay's directory<br></div><div dir="ltr">(<<a href="https://tools.wmflabs.org/hay/directory/#addtool" target="_blank">https://tools.wmflabs.org/hay/directory/#addtool</a>>).<br></div><div dir="ltr">* Contribute docs on mediawiki.org on using your favorite Action API<br></div><div dir="ltr">actions (<<a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page" target="_blank">https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page</a>>).<br></div><div dir="ltr">* Update the documentation on finding Documentation<br></div><div dir="ltr">(<<a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation" target="_blank">https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation</a>>) to include other<br></div><div dir="ltr">places that you know have useful docs.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Wikimedia is also working towards creation of a documentation special<br></div><div dir="ltr">interest group (<<a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156301" target="_blank">https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156301</a>>). The<br></div><div dir="ltr">first step in that process is to actually define what a SIG means for<br></div><div dir="ltr">Wikimedia. If you are interested in project governance or have good or<br></div><div dir="ltr">bad experiences working in SIGs in other organizations (or<br></div><div dir="ltr">WikiProjects) your input in that process would be welcome<br></div><div dir="ltr">(<<a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164551" target="_blank">https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164551</a>>).<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Bryan<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br></div><div dir="ltr">From: Ryan Kaldari <<a ymailto="mailto:rkaldari@wikimedia.org" href="mailto:rkaldari@wikimedia.org">rkaldari@wikimedia.org</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">Date: Tue, May 2, 2017 at 12:12 PM<br></div><div dir="ltr">Subject: [Wikitech-l] get ready for MediaWiki Documentation Day on May 12th!<br></div><div dir="ltr">To: Wikimedia developers <<a ymailto="mailto:wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org" href="mailto:wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org">wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Mark your calendars! Friday, May 12th has been designated MediaWiki<br></div><div dir="ltr">Documentation Day. This is a day to put aside normal development work and<br></div><div dir="ltr">focus on improving MediaWiki documentation. This includes documentation for<br></div><div dir="ltr">users, wiki administrators, and developers.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Anyone with a good understanding of any particular area of MediaWiki<br></div><div dir="ltr">software (broadly construed to include gadgets, bots, libraries, API<br></div><div dir="ltr">frameworks, etc.) is encouraged to add or update on-wiki documentation,<br></div><div dir="ltr">in-code documentation, READMEs, etc. And even if you don't feel like you<br></div><div dir="ltr">know enough to improve the documentation, you can also participate by<br></div><div dir="ltr">flagging out-dated documentation or creating documentation requests on the<br></div><div dir="ltr">wiki page.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Coordination for Documentation Day is happening at:<br></div><div dir="ltr">* <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Documentation_Day_2017" target="_blank">https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Documentation_Day_2017</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">* <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126500" target="_blank">https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126500</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">For more details, please refer to the wiki page above. This is a completely<br></div><div dir="ltr">ad hoc event, so feel free to adapt it, evolve it, expand it, hijack it,<br></div><div dir="ltr">promote it, or ignore it. Cheers!<br></div><div dir="ltr">_______________________________________________<br></div><div dir="ltr">Wikitech-l mailing list<br></div><div dir="ltr"><a ymailto="mailto:Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org" href="mailto:Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org">Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l" target="_blank">https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div dir="ltr">Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <<a ymailto="mailto:bd808@wikimedia.org" href="mailto:bd808@wikimedia.org">bd808@wikimedia.org</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">[[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Cloud Services Boise, ID USA<br></div><div dir="ltr">irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">_______________________________________________<br></div><div dir="ltr">Labs-l mailing list<br></div><div dir="ltr"><a ymailto="mailto:Labs-l@lists.wikimedia.org" href="mailto:Labs-l@lists.wikimedia.org">Labs-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l" target="_blank">https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l</a><br></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>