User:Sandaru/Welcome to labs/Progress Reports

Goals for the first half of the internship

 * Implementing the getting started guides in a new structure and adding a FAQ page to Labs documentation
 * Finishing up on a template for project documentation of every project hosted in labs and start completing the documentation according to the template

Communication Plan
Communication with the community happens mainly with Labs-I mailing list and #wikimedia-labs IRC channel. In the perspective pf the project the communication up to now has only happened with the mentor. We will hope to contact the project admins of each and every project soon for completing the project documentation. For that we hope to use semantic forms extension to convert our template on to a form and give the project admins to fill.

Lessons Learned since 21st April

 * Got familiar with Wikimedia Labs and tool labs and their projects
 * Learned to use semantic MediaWiki extension with templates and semantic forms

Week 1 :19th May - 25th May
Implementing the test template using the semantic wiki and implement a test form from it to complete for the project owners. But found it has some drawbacks so still finding a way to connect the links of the users and admins and let the users select from them in the semantic form rather than typing their name. Come up with a plan for the Getting started documentation like adding an FAQ page and adding getting started links and FAQ links in the left sub menu.

Week 2 : 26th May - 1st June
Participated the IRC chat for opw interns in gnome IRC channel. Making a demonstration of proposed changes and alternative solution for adding "Getting Started" links in the main page. It can be found at proposed changes for the new main page. Making plans for the FAQ page of the labs and suggested separating the tool labs help page under different topics rather than having all the information and FAQ page under one topic.

Week 3 : 2nd June - 8th June
Prepared the initial versions of FAQ page for Wikimedia labs. First prepared the questions and and discussed with the mentor and removed some of the suggested questions and added the questions suggested by the mentor. Then go through the existing documentation including help pages, terminology and getting started pages to add the answers to the questions and sent for the mentor for the approval. The final version of the FAQ version can be found here.

Week 4 : 9th June - 15th June
Prepared a second and more detailed version of FAQ from suggestions and feedback from the mentor. Improve the answers and added some more questions to the FAQ.

Week 5 : 16th June - 22nd June
Improved the second version of the FAQ on the Google doc according to the feed back from the mentor. Trasfered the FAQ page to WIkitech. You can now find the Wikimedia Labs FAQ page in here. Found all the outdated wiki articles about Wikimedia Labs asked by the mentor. one of them is Wikimedia Labs page in media wiki. It contains lot of outdated information so that the mentor asked it to mark as obsolete. By searching through the wiki I found out that obsolete template is not working in the new version on the wiki and as a result we have to use outdated template.So marked the page outdated and remove the link to it from wikitech main page. Now the main page directly links to FAQ page.