<tl;dr>: Your feedback as a technically-minded Wikimedian is welcome on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy/Developer_Portal/Content_D...

Hi everyone,

last year[1] the Developer Advocacy team started to work on a single, central entry point for developers and tech-minded people for Wikimedia's technical documentation[2].

A central entry point ("developer portal") would cover common technical use cases to allow existing and future technical contributors and developers to find the information they need. Each use case links to its most relevant documentation (i.e. to pages on wikitech or mediawiki.org).

This is part of a larger initiative to implement an organization strategy for key technical documents: Understand challenges about finding and maintaining docs, identify key docs, and investigate ways to improve our workflows around documentation.

So far we:

* Researched and reviewed existing documentation venues and pages * Reviewed developer/documentation portals in the broader industry * Interviewed several engineering teams around technical documentation workflows, audiences, and key technical docs (the key themes from these conversations are available, see the link above) * Created an initial draft for the structure and content of the single entry point

Now we would like to improve this initial content draft with your help.

1) Please take a look at the initial draft at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy/Developer_Portal/Content_D...

2) Then, please help improve it by sharing your thoughts and feedback until *May 25th* at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy/Developer_Portal/Content_D...

Note that this is only a draft how to structure content. It is not a design or layout proposal and it is not an implementation. For additional future work, see also the Phabricator workboard[3].

Next steps include:

* A session at the remote Hackathon (May 22-23; [4]) * Incorporate content improvements, based on your feedback * Check the documents linked from the single entry point proposal for accuracy * Investigate requirements for the technical implementation * Investigate improvements of processes around technical documentation (structure, locations, navigation, stewardship, etc).

If you want to learn more about the project, please see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy/Developer_Portal

Thanks to everybody who has provided their valuable input to get to this stage, and thanks in advance to everyone who will!

Cheers, andre

[1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-August/093773.html [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy/Developer_Portal [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikimedia-developer-portal/ [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2021