Quim Gil wrote > Hi, anybody interested in participating at the > > Open Help Conference & Sprints > September 26-30 > Cincinnati, Ohio, USA > http://conf.openhelp.cc/ >
> Lately we are focusing on users of our APIs, datasets, tools, > infrastructure... Would it make sense to organize something at that event? > I'm moderately interested in going to see how other projects deal with versioning documentation, auto-generating documentation, incorporating sample code in documentation and vice-versa, etc. If anyone working on mediawiki.org or wikitech documentation (documentation of MediaWiki , APIs, developing, labs, tool labs, etc.) plans to attend that doubles my interest level, we could productively sprint on any of those areas. A Wikimedia expedition attended a couple of years ago with a Wikipedia & > user help focus, and they were happy about the event. > > http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/03/wikipedians-open-help-conference/ > From the blog post I just learned the 2013 visit produced https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Starter_kit , an alternative to "How to contribute." On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 7:48 PM, hardik juneja <[email protected]> wrote: > This event seems to be a really nice opportunity to showcase the > recently built REST API (rest.wikimedia.org). > I was thinking something like a introductory session on the REST API, but > it depends on the kind of audience we are targeting on because the API docs > are self explanatory and are well received so far. > As I understand it, this is a hands-on conference about writing better help documentation. It's great that https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/html/Sheep returns the fast cached HTML of the wiki page, and RESTBase's Swagger-generated doc is nifty, but how do you see that relating to the conference? Cheers, -- =S Page WMF Tech writer _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
