On 07/19/2013 03:37 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > A bunch of us are going to concentrate on improving documentation > relating to Tool Labs next week, July 23-25. Now that obsolete docs can > now be moved to their own namespace, "Obsolete", on > wikitech.wikimedia.org, and now that WMF contractor Kirsten > Menger-Anderson is working on a plan for improving documentation, it's a > good time to do a big refresh. > > I personally want: > * HOWTOs, references, and examples for people settling in and using Tool > Labs - we have some to consolidate and clarify > * tweaks to improve http://tools.wmflabs.org/ (the automatically > generated inventory of bots and tools in Tool Labs) > * a clearer inventory of available services > * a curated directory of popular tools/bots that are already settled in, > and some ideas for case studies to feature on blog.wikimedia.org > > Kirsten's going to send out a plan of attack, and we can all collaborate > on an Etherpad, onwiki, and in #wikimedia-labs during the sprint. > Looking forward to helping out!
Kirsten, Yuvi, Ryan, Coren, Silke, and a few other folks have helped out with http://etherpad.wmflabs.org/pad/p/Tool_Labs_Sprint_July_23 and we still need a lot of help! Here are bits that we'd especially like your help fleshing out: Section 9. Developing on Tool Labs (especially "how to use <programming-language-X> to write tools on labs'" and "where to put shared Tool code", working with cookies and pywikipediabot, and any tips/tricks/useful knowledge) -- line 426 on the Etherpad right now. Section 8.4: Scheduling jobs at regular intervals with cron (including Creating a crontab and specifying time zones) -- line 416 in the Etherpad Section 7.3: Joins between commons and wikidata and other project databases -- line 394 right now For each section, Kirsten has listed links that have some info already, so you don't even need to do too much research. :) Come join us! -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Labs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
