On 20 September 2012 08:54, Quim Gil <quim...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 2:11 AM, Erik Moeller <e...@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. > > (...) > >> 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. -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, VisualEditor Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforres...@wikimedia.org | @jdforrester | +1 415-839-6885 x6844 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
