Hi.
I filed https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33464 just now regarding adding a "Developer" or "API" link to the footer of Wikimedia wikis as a means of better publicizing the MediaWiki API and encouraging tool development with MediaWiki.
The question becomes what the target of such a link should be. I think there are a few possibilities of where it could go, on MediaWiki.org and Meta-Wiki. I'm not sure which site is most appropriate here and I'm not sure which page is best.
Regarding what users should see when clicking this link, I think a few key points must be made clear, namely that:
(a) there is an API! (b) it generally doesn't require registration (though registering has [[benefits]]), but more importantly the API does not require invitation (c) easy-to-find links for programming language libraries (inspired by http://developer.wordnik.com/ which has large icons that developers can easily recognize); currently a lot of this content (aggregated lists of MediaWiki API libraries) is actually still on the English Wikipedia; it would need to be moved over (d) links to information about database dumps (when they're appropriate to use, how they're obtained, etc.) (e) links to information about MediaWiki development (as opposed tool development alongside MediaWiki)
The whole intro page should be fairly simple and clean and have i18n capability from the outset, I suppose.
Thoughts?
MZMcBride