Jon, if you want to take the lead on this, go ahead.
has some
thoughts that Ben Lobaugh had put together (including the Flickr
example) in case you find those useful.
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
On 09/18/2012 12:34 PM, Jon Robson wrote:
This is a great idea but we would really need to build
several new pages
ideally with links to the API sandbox, code samples. This is a big project
in itself. The landing page should be close to something like Flickr [1]
and should detail why someone would want to be a developer, the sort of
things they can develop and with what skill set and should give a brief but
interesting overview of apps/sites that use the API or extend mediawiki in
drastic ways. Part of said page should be about inspiring people to develop
with us rather than elsewhere.
I'm happy to use my 20% time to work on this with people. Just give me a
shout offlist.
[
1]http://www.flickr.com/services/developer/
On Sep 18, 2012 4:49 AM, "Mark Clements (HappyDog)"
<gmane(a)kennel17.co.uk>
wrote:
"dan entous" <d_entous(a)yahoo.com>
wrote in message
news:75E303E6-3EC7-4A17-824E-**C3D8D3378021@yahoo.com...
how about here :
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**Manual:Contents<http://www.mediawiki.org…
... and add in any resources that may be missing to those pages.
with kind regards,
dan
I would much rather it went to a new page, dedicated for this exact
purpose. Manual:Contents is the contents page for the manual, and I can see
that once this is implemented there will be feature creep which will move
it away from its original purpose.
One of the hubs might be appropriate ([[mw:User hub]], [[mw:Sysadmin hub]]
or [[mw:Developer hub]] - all of which need some tlc), but perhaps we need
a new more-tightly-focussed page that spans user-types.
Personally, I would recommend that we create [[mw:Get involved]] if it is
about general MW involvement or perhaps [[meta:Developer hub]] if it's more
WMF focussed (or has that all moved to
mw.org now - I am not so clear
about the distinction as I used to be).
- HappyDog
(cross-posted to
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.**org/show_bug.cgi?id=33464<https://bugzilla.…)
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