Jon, if you want to take the lead on this, go ahead. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Sumanah/ApiDocsImprovement has some thoughts that Ben Lobaugh had put together (including the Flickr example) in case you find those useful.
-- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation On 09/18/2012 12:34 PM, Jon Robson wrote: > This is a great idea but we would really need to build several new pages > ideally with links to the API sandbox, code samples. This is a big project > in itself. The landing page should be close to something like Flickr [1] > and should detail why someone would want to be a developer, the sort of > things they can develop and with what skill set and should give a brief but > interesting overview of apps/sites that use the API or extend mediawiki in > drastic ways. Part of said page should be about inspiring people to develop > with us rather than elsewhere. > > I'm happy to use my 20% time to work on this with people. Just give me a > shout offlist. > > [1]http://www.flickr.com/services/developer/ > On Sep 18, 2012 4:49 AM, "Mark Clements (HappyDog)" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> "dan entous" <[email protected]> wrote in message >> news:75E303E6-3EC7-4A17-824E-**[email protected]... >> >>> how about here : >>> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**Manual:Contents<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Contents> >>> >>> ... and add in any resources that may be missing to those pages. >>> >>> with kind regards, >>> dan >>> >>> >> I would much rather it went to a new page, dedicated for this exact >> purpose. Manual:Contents is the contents page for the manual, and I can see >> that once this is implemented there will be feature creep which will move >> it away from its original purpose. >> >> One of the hubs might be appropriate ([[mw:User hub]], [[mw:Sysadmin hub]] >> or [[mw:Developer hub]] - all of which need some tlc), but perhaps we need >> a new more-tightly-focussed page that spans user-types. >> >> Personally, I would recommend that we create [[mw:Get involved]] if it is >> about general MW involvement or perhaps [[meta:Developer hub]] if it's more >> WMF focussed (or has that all moved to mw.org now - I am not so clear >> about the distinction as I used to be). >> >> - HappyDog >> >> (cross-posted to >> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.**org/show_bug.cgi?id=33464<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33464>) >> >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l> >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
