On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Mono <monomium(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm afraid that my opposition is rather frivolous,
but is the ratio of
developers to laymen enough to justify adding the "extra" burden? It seems
some others have noted that if we include a developer hub, we can't stop
there. I could propose a research hub, a librarian hub, a photographer hub.
A developer outreach program might be better as it's unlikely anyone ever
even reads the links at the bottom.
I don't see the slippery slope. All Wikimedia activities depend on a
thriving technical ecosystem. I strongly support the idea of surfacing
entrypoints for engineers (whether they want to work on our stuff, or
their own stuff) more prominently, as many other major websites do.
Making the open source nature of our projects more easily discoverable
is a Good Thing.
+1 for redirecting
developers.wikimedia.org and
developer.wikimedia.org to
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_hub as well.
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