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.

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 Useful to quickly see if a page is out-of-date or note.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.