On 06/23 09:21, Tricia Burmeister wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> The Wikimedia Technical Documentation team
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Documentation_Team> has
> built several new tools to help you write with confidence, and identify
> opportunities to improve docs.
> 
> Write with confidence: use automated documentation linting to check your
> prose
> 
> Writing good technical documentation can be difficult! To make it easier,
> we built documentation linting tools that provide sentence-level
> suggestions to help simplify your prose, avoid confusing language, and
> align your writing with the documentation style guide
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation/Style_guide>.
> 
> 
>    -
> 
>    Visit https://techdoc-linter.toolforge.org/ to use the documentation
>    linter as a stand-alone tool (works with mediawiki.org and Wikitech
>    pages)
>    -
> 
>    Get doc suggestions in your local text editor or IDE
>    
> <https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/technical-documentation/documentation-linting/linter-quickstart#how-to-use-vale-to-lint-documentation-in-your-text-editor-or-ide>
>    -
> 
>    Run the doc linter on your project in a GitLab CI job
>    
> <https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/technical-documentation/documentation-linting/linter-quickstart#how-to-use-vale-in-a-gitlab-ci-pipeline>
>    -
> 
>    Learn more about the documentation linting tools
>    <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation/Tools/Linting>
> 
> 
> We hope these tools help you feel empowered and more confident in your
> ability to write high-quality technical documentation.
> 
> Identify opportunities to improve docs: get metrics to direct your efforts
> 
> Measuring the quality of technical documentation is complicated, and the
> volume of content can make it hard to know where to focus your efforts.
> Readers often navigate docs as groupings of related pages, so analyzing
> metrics across pages can provide valuable insights. To help with this, we
> built tools that provide metrics for collections of technical documentation:
> 
> 
>    -
> 
>    The technical documentation dashboard
>    
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation/Tools/Documentation_metrics_dashboard>
>    displays aggregate data for collections of pages on mediawiki.org,
>    Wikitech, and Meta-Wiki. Use it to get a unified view of doc statistics
>    across pages, and drill down to view data for individual pages.
> 
> 
>    -
> 
>    The metrics generator
>    <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation/Tools/Metrics_generator>
>    provides specialized metrics for collections of technical documentation on
>    mediawiki.org. Use it to assess key quality indicators of tech docs, and
>    identify pages to focus on.
> 
> 
> We hope these tools make it easier to prioritize and measure documentation
> improvements across multiple technical wiki pages. Try using the metrics
> generator and technical documentation dashboard to identify pages to
> improve, then run the linting tools on those pages to get writing
> suggestions.
> 
> Tell us what you think!
> 
> These tools are experimental and have much room to grow. Please give us
> your feedback! We'd especially like to hear about:
> 
>    -
> 
>    How do you use these tools, and how do they help you?
>    -
> 
>    What other types of tooling or data would help you contribute to
>    improving Wikimedia technical documentation?
> 
> 
> Provide feedback at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Documentation and
> join #wikimedia-techdocs on IRC for discussion. Thank you for caring about
> technical documentation!
> 
> -Tricia, on behalf of the Wikimedia Technical Documentation team

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This is awesome!

Thanks a lot for working on this, I'll do some trials, but I want to enable it
in all the toolforge/cloud repos if possible :)

A bit side-question, is there a recommended way of publishing docs from git
repos to wikitech?  (that would enable a lot of workflows for us that currently
need to do manually to make sure things are still in sync).


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