User:Contraexemplo/Outreachy/Daily notes/February 2018

February 8
I finally have time to write down my thoughts. It's been a while, right?

The last few weeks were very exhausting and hasty. For instance, I barely had time to sit down and write my bi-weekly reports — I was constantly focused on reaching out and talking to people. I felt a great amount of guilt if I tried to do something else, fearing I was losing time I could dedicate to the outreach. Fortunately, things are starting to get back to normal now.

Wikimedia blog post
This task certainly stalled for some time, but I finally ended reviewing what I wrote and covering every single important point. Since others review might take some time, it may suffer some changes and I am two bi-weekly reports behind, I decided to publish my version on my blog.


 * English version: Bringing documentation to light
 * Brazilian Portuguese version: Colocando a documentação em foco

It is frustrating that I didn't submitted it this way some weeks ago, but it also has some advantages:


 * I found the EF EPI index, which was really useful to build some hypotheses and understand which native speakers of some languages need special attention.
 * Displaying data of the Help:Contents translation rate and pageviews side by side was also really insightful. I am especially impressed with how much people who presumably speak Arabic look for user guides, even though the translation rate is low. It makes me wonder how much of the pageviews of the English version of Help:Contents are from people whose native language isn't English.
 * I wanted to record video guides but editing videos and having good audio equipment is difficult. I ended up writing a shorter version of the Translate extension documentation with some complementary visual resources. I tried to do what I wished I had when beginning to contribute to MediaWiki: a straight-forward guide that let me know the most important aspects of the tools I am about to use. I want to improve it later, but it was certainly uplifting to see it ready.

Outreach
Things happen in a very slow pace and this is absolutely frustrating but expected.