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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@kennel17.co.uk
> wrote:
>
>> "dan entous"
d_entous@yahoo.com wrote in message
>> news:75E303E6-3EC7-4A17-824E-**C3D8D3378021@yahoo.com...
>>
>>> how about here :
>>>
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**Manual:Contentshttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Contents
>>>
>>> ... 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=33464https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33464)
>>
>>
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