User:Pavithraes/Sandbox/Season of Docs/2019

Potential technical writing projects
See also: Project ideas

Technical Documentation

 * Find examples and create templates for genres of technical writing on Wikimedia projects (Ex. How-tos, Walk-throughs, User-Guides, etc). Use your templates to revise and improve existing documentation and to stand as an example for others in the future. (Document on this page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_documentation_templates_and_suggestions)
 * Identify a Wikimedia technical project in need of technical documentation or improvement to technical documentation. Create a proposal that outlines how you would improve this area of technical documentation content.

Evaluate and recommend

 * Help others understand how to suggest improvements to technical documentation and how to contribute to improving technical documentation.
 * Evaluate, iterate, and test this draft process proposal: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_documentation_prioritization
 * Document your experience on-boarding as a technical writer on Wikimedia projects. What did you need to know? What tools did you need? How and where are things documented? How do you work with others and test your documentation and processes?
 * Research and propose a content strategy for a technical documentation content collection for a Wikimedia project.
 * Suggest a technical documentation project that covers evaluating current knowledge assets and content collections. Provide suggestions for improvements.

Audience research and user experience

 * Research audiences that use Mediawiki / Wikitech technical documentation. Who is using the technical documentation? How and why do they use it? Create a set of personas for the kinds of technical collaborators who are using our research and users we will want to reach out to. Provide a set of recommendations for creating technical documentation and resources for a variety of users. The report can discuss intersections (ways to reach out to a wider audience). It can also discuss recommendations to reach out to smaller segments.

Create resources for staff and volunteers

 * Create a set of short video walkthroughs and tutorials to help onboard new technical collaborators. (Ex. How to get started with Phabricator for Wikimedia technical projects. How to XYZ)
 * Curate and promote technical documentation tasks for hackathons and other developer events. Explore outstanding technical documentation tasks in Phabricator. Create technical documentation tasks that can be completed in a short time frame at hackathons and developer events. Create onboarding/quickstart documentation that new collaborators can use guide them through the process of improving and creating technical documentation.

Contact methods
Please feel free to reach out to us with questions. We like to work in the open and together with our community. Following are the best methods to reach us with questions and for official announcements.


 * 1) Zulip - https://wikimedia.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/195601-gsod19 (PLEASE NOTE: Zulip is the best way to contact Wikimedia's Google Season of code admins.)
 * 2) Google Group - technical-documentation@wikimedia.org