Wikimedia technical documentation: Friends of the Docs
Friends of the Docs is a group that is open to all members of the Wikimedia technical community who are interested in advocating for better technical documentation for Wikimedia projects. This page provides information about current and past projects to improve technical documentation and grow the community of contributors.
Friends of the Docs currently hang out in the #wikimedia-techdocs connect channel on libera.chat.
Focus areas
edit- Identify top priorities to improve and elevate technical documentation across Wikimedia projects.
- Create standard requirements and processes for creating new tutorials and other technical documents.
- Update and improve existing technical documentation.
- Identify and support advocates for better technical documentation.
Recommended resources
editHistorical information
editThis section contains information about past activities of this group in its different iterations.
As Friends of the Docs
editProjects:
Meetings:
As Technical Document (Re)working Group
editMembers:
The group was formerly a membership-based special interest group that applied a process of auditing, extension, review, and iteration to Wikimedia technical documentation, but was limited to improving Scoring Platform team and Cloud Services documentation. In October 2019, the group was renamed to Friends of the Docs.
Meetings:
See also
edit- Technical Document Re-working Group/Resources for links to further reading
- m:Research:Annual Toolforge Survey
- Cloud documentation phab task list
- gdoc:Wikimania 2017 meeting notes
- Technical Documentation Tasks for Hack-a-thons: A working list of smaller tasks to bring to hack-a-thons, write-a-thons, an do-a-thons
- Heather Stenson's talk "A Friend of the Docs is a Friend of Mine"