(dropped ai@ from the CC) On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 6:49 PM, Gergo Tisza <gti...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 4:20 PM, Aaron Halfaker <ahalfa...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > >> I thought Wikitech makes sense for a wikimedia-specific initiative. >> > > A documentation SIG is not really Wikimedia-specific though (or did you > mean "ORES documentation SIG" specifically?).
Sarah is working on technical writing projects related specifically to ORES and Cloud Services this quarter (and hopefully for many more quarters to come). This work is part of the "technical community building" program from the Technology department's annual plan [0]. Sarah can jump in to say more, but my understanding is that the initial work of the SIGDOCS is intended to be focused pretty narrowly on ORES, Cloud VPS, and Toolforge. That certainly does not mean that we do not have other documentation gaps (we do) or that others are barred from organizing to work on things like MediaWiki API docs (they are not). It does mean however that we are making choices about focus with the hope that this will help make more actionable plans about which docs to work on first and what sort of work to do. > Also, most Wikimedia-specific technology initiatives are on mw.org (all the > Audiences projects, for example). Where the tracking page for SIGDOCS lives is probably the least important issue related to organizing the group, but I think your point is well taken. > Due to being managed differently, wikitech is not a great work environment > IMO. There is no unified login, no page translation support, no structured > discussion support, no pageview metrics, the registration process is tied > to creating LDAP and shell accounts... There are plans to improve this > eventually [1], but between that and the audience differences, I'd stay > away for now. All of this is true, but then also very false when you learn that improving the Cloud VPS and Toolforge docs is at least 50% of the project to be undertaken. I'd like to second Gergo's initial enthusiasm about Sarah stepping up to help organize work on documentation. She has a great background in technical writing as individual contributor and experience in teaching writing related topics that I hope we can all leverage to get better at the craft of making clear and useful documentation. [0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2017-2018/Draft/Programs/Technology#Program_4:_Technical_community_building > [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123425 Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Cloud Services Boise, ID USA irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
