Thread:User talk:Zakgreant/MediaWiki Technical Documentation Plan/Some History/reply (3)

I'm happy to keep things on-wiki or in other public text channels. Just let me know what works best for you. I suppose that my preference is a mix of LT discussions and IRC chats. LT lets us summarize and such, which IRC lets us short-circuit some kinds of potential misunderstandings.

I take your point about climbing the wrong mountain. At present, I'm focused on becoming a part of the community, improving the content of the docs, testing ideas from the draft plan and working with others to improve the draft. The metaphorical mountain-climbing will come later.

With the CSRF page, it is written for the primary audience - developers. It is relevant for wiki users only in that they may find their way to the page accidentally and should be able to figure out via the overview that it isn't a page for them. :)

Regarding the help docs, I can pros and cons to having a feature that pulls down the docs.

Pros:
 * wiki is populated with most recent docs (compared with bundled docs, which would likely only be updated once per release.)

Cons:
 * feature would disclose information by "Phoning home"

Issues:
 * multiple runs of the feature would need to deal with the situation where the docs are newer than the version of MW pulling the docs
 * multiple runs of the feature should not overwrite local edits