James Forrester wrote: > On 20 September 2012 08:54, Quim Gil <[email protected]> wrote: >> Alright, let's move onto the next round: which dev hub? >> >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_developer_hub >> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_hub >> >> mediawiki.org is a better default landing place for developers than >> Meta, do you agree? >> >> Is it worth considering the merge of both pages, as it has been suggested? >> >> And in any case the API should be promoted upfront. Now the Meta hub >> has no mention (I could find) while the dense MediaWiki hub features >> the link if you are patient to find it (or you use the search, as I >> did). > > Of course, we already have a link to the mediawiki.org front page on > every page we serve - that's what the "Powered by MediaWiki" button > links to. There, the four most prominent links are: > > * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki > * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Installation > * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration > * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker > > I assumed that the point of this additional link was to take people to > our API because we already use our bully-pulpit to ask for more > developers quite strongly, but people who want to use us as a service > need to dig further to even know we have one. If all we're doing is > duplicating the general "hey, you're a techy person" link with another > text label, this exercise will have lost its value.
Hi! Sorry for starting this thread and then disappearing for a bit; it's been a busy week. I've taken the (wonderful!) comments in this thread and on bug 33464 and synthesized them into a requests for comment here: <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?curid=99106>. To address your point specifically, the "Powered By MediaWiki" button is a bit of promotion (or advertising, branding, whatever) for the MediaWiki software. What we're discussing here is something different. Based on how other sites behave, I think there's a reasonable expectation that if you want to figure out, generically, how to get involved, looking in the footer of the Web site is a reasonable place to start. Most of my thoughts are in the RFC now on mediawiki.org, but my big revelation earlier this week was that I don't think we really have an audience problem as some have suggested. The people we want to attract are all developers (which is why I suggested using "Developers" as the link text). That said, I think the first step in the landing page should be to split _by motivation_: * are you wanting to re-use Wikimedia wikis' content; or * are you wanting to contribute code to Wikimedia/MediaWiki? >From there, you can sub-divide based on programming language, component (user interface, ops, etc.), and a bunch of other variables. My mock-up for the tree/matrix/wizard is here: <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?oldid=585564#Blueprint>. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
