User:Zakgreant

Overview
Hi! I'm Zak Greant, a writer and open source jack o' trades. I'm working with the Wikimedia Foundation from May 2010 until November 2010 with a focus on the MediaWiki developer documentation and the Wikipedia operations documentation.

Look at my activity feed or see my reports below to find out what I am doing and working on.

Office Hours
I'm usually on irc://freenode#mediawiki when I'm working.

On Wednesdays, I focus on answering general questions about documentation and the docs work. In general, I'll be available for discussions at the following times. I've tried to make it so that there are relatively sane times available for people, regardless of where they live in the world.

What I'm Doing
I'm working to improve the MediaWiki developer documentation and the Wikipedia operations documentation.

I am doing the work in four big steps:
 * 1) Study the documentation and talk to the people who use it.
 * 2) Make a plan to improve the documentation. The plan will also cover how to improve the processes for producing the documentation.
 * 3) Test the plan by making documentation using the plan. In this step, I will also ask other people to try the documentation and tell me what they think.
 * 4) After studying, planning and testing, I will edit and write a lot of documentation.

Software and Tools
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Using+the+spell+checker?s=dictionary&as=s#Adding_dictionaries for help on using the dictionary.
 * MediaWiki History Sparklines – A Greasemonkey extension for Firefox that uses jQuery, jQuery Sparklines and the MediaWiki API to display sparklines (small graphs) of recent changes to MediaWiki pages. Useful to quickly see if a page is out-of-date or note. Screenshots, source, feature requests and more at http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/79234
 * I use the Simpler English Dictionary add-on for Firefox to help me use Simple English words. Visit

To Do

 * Make templates for reports
 * Pretty-format changelog at top of reports – it currently uses the API and isn't nice to look at.