User:Zakgreant/Office hours/2010-10-29

Overview
This will be my first office hours.

To make it so that folks are more able to participate, I'm running two sessions spread 12 hours apart.

While I'm hoping for lots of questions from participants, I'm also planning to provide a bit of background on who I am, what I'm doing and how/why I'm doing it.

Current Focus

 * Getting into the habit of making my activities usefully transparent. I've set http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Zakgreant up as a dashboard for my activities. I'm publicly posting my weekly reports and keeping daily public logs of what I'm working on.  I'm still figuring some things out, but I'm happy with the early results.
 * Learning my way around the sites and community. I'm doing this by spending time on various IRC channels, reading various lists (foundation-l, mediawiki-api, mediawiki-l, wikitech-l) and reading http://meta.wikimedia.org and http://mediawiki.org.
 * Expanding my knowledge of MediaWiki by browsing the source, reading the docs, editing docs pages, writing bits of code (like http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/79234), etc.
 * Testing my draft plan for improving the MediaWiki developer docs. The first draft is at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Zakgreant/MediaWiki_Technical_Documentation_Plan. I'll make a concerted effort in a few weeks to get developers reviewing the plan (though I'm happy to get input before then as well.)

Background
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Zakgreant#Background

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