Wikimedia technical documentation: Friends of the Docs/Meetings/2020-07-21

Attendees: Alex Paskulin, Dan Shick, Pavithra Eswaramoorthy, Bryan Davis, Sarah R

Notes:

• Using PAWS and Jupyter Notebooks for documentation (Sarah R.)
  • Read the docs and launch PAWS: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/PAWS
  • Import a notebook into a notebook: https://paws-public.wmflabs.org/paws-public/User:BDavis%20(WMF)/use_replicahelper.ipynb
  • Yuvi Panda, "Stealing some of Wikimedia's Principles to Democratize Programming": https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stealing_some_of_Wikimedia%27s_Principles_to_Democratize_Programming.webm
• Favorite templates and formatting tools for creating documentation (Alex)
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation/Style_guide/templates
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Colored_box
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:ContentGrid
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Clickable_button_2
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Rating
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Lists
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Subpages#Displaying_subpages
  • https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Codesample (Cool code sample template from Bryan!)
• Open sharing and feedback
  • Where do docs go?
    • These two user pages contain some informal notes on the differences between mediawiki.org, Meta-Wiki, Wikitech, doc.wikimedia.org, and others:
      • https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:APaskulin_(WMF)/Content_Review
      • https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:APaskulin_(WMF)/Documentation_Portal