Quim Gil wrote:
Hi, the Engineering Community team is working on a plan
to evolve onto a
Developer Relations team. This is not just a change of name. See
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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ECT/Developer_Relations_team
Your feedback is welcome, in the wiki page or here.
Related task:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97283
Hi.
In the "Developer offering" section, I see "APIs to extract, publish,
edit, and monitor Wikimedia content from external apps and services."
Does this mean that your team will be developing new APIs? For example, to
add or remove a category from a page. Or to extract information out of
Wiktionary and Wikisource.
"Developer Relations" makes me think this is closer to public relations,
or marketing and branding for Wikimedia's APIs. I'm not sure that's a good
use of resources. Event coordination seems like a much better fit.
I see mentions of "Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016" and "Wikimedia
Hackathon 2016" on the page. Has the MediaWiki Developer Summit been
renamed? And is the Wikimedia Hackathon the one that takes place at
Wikimania or a different one?
Can someone please remind me why
dev.wikimedia.org is needed? We have
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute> linked from the footer
of every Wikimedia wiki as a "Developers" link. If you want a shorter,
more memorable URL, can't we just make
dev.wikimedia.org a redirect to the
"How to contribute" page and be done with it? Any additional documentation
and showcasing can be done on
mediawiki.org wiki pages. Why all the fuss?
MZMcBride