On 20 September 2012 08:54, Quim Gil quimgil@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 2:11 AM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
the utter open sourceness of our codebase is what sets us apart, so we should make it clear pretty prominently on our dev hub.
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With that said, I agree that the dev hub currently is pretty much inside baseball and we should try to make it more understandable if we prominently link it from every footer of every page.
Alright, let's move onto the next round: which dev hub?
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_developer_hub http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_hub
mediawiki.org is a better default landing place for developers than Meta, do you agree?
Is it worth considering the merge of both pages, as it has been suggested?
And in any case the API should be promoted upfront. Now the Meta hub has no mention (I could find) while the dense MediaWiki hub features the link if you are patient to find it (or you use the search, as I did).
Of course, we already have a link to the mediawiki.org front page on every page we serve - that's what the "Powered by MediaWiki" button links to. There, the four most prominent links are:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Installation * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker
I assumed that the point of this additional link was to take people to our API because we already use our bully-pulpit to ask for more developers quite strongly, but people who want to use us as a service need to dig further to even know we have one. If all we're doing is duplicating the general "hey, you're a techy person" link with another text label, this exercise will have lost its value.
J.