On 18.09.2012, 5:04 MZMcBride wrote: > Hi.
> There's a fairly straightforward request to add an API/Developer/Developer > Hub link to the footer of Wikimedia wikis, near the "Disclaimers", "Mobile > view", etc. links: > <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33464>. > This should be fairly trivial to implement, but I wanted to check if there > were any objections to such an idea. The basic rationale for including such > a link is that other sites such as Twitter and Facebook and Wordnik have > similar links. This kind of link encourages viewers to become involved in > development for the project (e.g., Wikipedia), as opposed to the MediaWiki > logo, which serves a somewhat different purpose/functionality. > Assuming there aren't any objections to the idea, the only remaining > question seems to be where to point such a link. Brandon suggested > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Help>. I'm wondering if there's an > "API basics" FAQ or something similar on mediawiki.org that could be > included in whatever landing page is chosen. Something that includes common > questions about the API such as "What formats are available?", "Do I need an > API key?" (which I think is a pretty major question to answer, given how > many other APIs I've come across work), "How can I get started developing > for Wikimedia wikis?", etc. Does anyone know if such a page exists already? Project:Help is for end-users, none of them knows or should know what an API is. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
