Why shouldn't end users know? Some end users are able to use an API. I
prefer to not take the pedantic 'dont break your pretty little head on our
API' route
On Sep 18, 2012 8:15 AM, "Max Semenik" <maxsem.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 18.09.2012, 5:04 MZMcBride wrote:
Hi.
There's a fairly straightforward request to
add an
API/Developer/Developer
Hub link to the footer of Wikimedia wikis, near
the "Disclaimers",
"Mobile
view", etc. links:
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33464>.
This should be fairly trivial to implement, but I
wanted to check if
there
were any objections to such an idea. The basic
rationale for including
such
a link is that other sites such as Twitter and
Facebook and Wordnik have
similar links. This kind of link encourages viewers to become involved in
development for the project (e.g., Wikipedia), as opposed to the
MediaWiki
logo, which serves a somewhat different
purpose/functionality.
Assuming there aren't any objections to the
idea, the only remaining
question seems to be where to point such a link. Brandon suggested
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Help>. I'm wondering if there's
an
"API basics" FAQ or something similar
on
mediawiki.org that could be
included in whatever landing page is chosen. Something that includes
common
questions about the API such as "What
formats are available?", "Do I
need an
API key?" (which I think is a pretty major
question to answer, given how
many other APIs I've come across work), "How can I get started developing
for Wikimedia wikis?", etc. Does anyone know if such a page exists
already?
Project:Help is for end-users, none of them knows or should know what
an API is.
--
Best regards,
Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])
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