I'm afraid that my opposition is rather frivolous, but is the ratio of
developers to laymen enough to justify adding the "extra" burden? It seems
some others have noted that if we include a developer hub, we can't stop
there. I could propose a research hub, a librarian hub, a photographer hub.
A developer outreach program might be better as it's unlikely anyone ever
even reads the links at the bottom.
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Risker <[email protected]> wrote:
> Without wanting to take away from the value of this suggestion, I'll just
> point out that there's also not a link to "Become an Editor" either.
> ("Create an account" doesn't really count, lots of people have accounts who
> never edit.) I'll be the first to admit I'm in awe of the brain power on
> this list, so this may be assuming too much of the intellect of developers
> generally, but it's been my observation that those who are smart enough,
> and interested enough, to write code....usually find their way around
> pretty well.
>
> I think RobLa's point is well taken, though. Decide what you want to say to
> prospective developers, and make sure the landing page is welcoming and
> useful, before you send anyone there.
>
> Best,
> Risker
>
> On 19 September 2012 20:12, Tomasz Finc <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I really wish I could just got to http://developer.wikimedia.org/
> > and/or http://developer.wikipedia.org
> >
> > --tomasz
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > I think we should point to a developer hub but the current one needs to
> > be
> > > massively revised!
> > > On Sep 19, 2012 4:51 PM, "Rob Lanphier" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Quim Gil <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> > If the primary target are app developers then
> > >> > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page + improvements is
> > probably
> > >> > a better target. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_hub
> > >> >
> > >> > See full reasoning at
> > >> > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33464#c8
> > >>
> > >> Generally, we want a single link that encapsulates everything a
> > >> developer might be interested in (Gadgets, MediaWiki extensions, the
> > >> web API, data dumps, bot infrastructure like pywikipediabot, MediaWiki
> > >> core development, generally volunteering, etc). API:Main_page (for
> > >> better or worse) is focused on our web API.
> > >>
> > >> Rob
> > >>
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