User:AKlapper (WMF)/Sandbox/Documentation

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This page is for writers and maintainers of technical documentation for MediaWiki and related software.
For documentation how to use MediaWiki, see Help:Contents.
For documentation how to administrate MediaWiki or develop MediaWiki code, see Manual:Contents.

Overview

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Technical documentation refers to any documentation that contains information regarding a technical product, process, or task.

This page focuses on technical documentation for MediaWiki and related software. Documentation for Wikimedia projects is widely spread across different wikis and websites.

Resources and guidelines

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Types and locations

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  • On MediaWiki.org :
    • A Technical Manual for information about the MediaWiki Software.
    • Project based documentation. This includes user guides, API documentation, tutorials, development information and reference materials related to specific projects.
    • Help pages contain end-user specific documentation and Special pages provide some on-demand documentation.

Supporting resources include blogs, talk pages and discussion forums.

Audiences and consumers

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Primary users of the MediaWiki documentation and the most useful set of pages for each user-group are listed below.

Contact and outreach

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