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개요
Technical documentation refers to any documentation that contains information regarding a technical product, process, or task.

Documentation for Wikimedia projects is widely spread across different wikis and websites. This page focuses on technical documentation for and related software.

Why contribute to technical documentation?
Technical documentation is an important part of Wikimedia technical projects. Quality documentation is especially important for open-source projects where folks from all over the world are working together. It provides history, context, accurate information, and repeatable steps that people can follow.

If you are interested in contributing to Wikimedia's technical projects, improving technical documentation can be a good starting place.

Where to find Wikimedia technical documentation
There are many Wikimedia technical projects, and sometimes it can be difficult to determine the best place to find or publish technical documentation. Following is a list of the main places to find Wikimedia technical documentation.


 * MediaWiki - MediaWiki software documentation and technical documentation for many other Wikimedia technology projects. This is the default space for publishing technical documents about Wikimedia technology.
 * Wikitech - Technical documentation for Wikimedia Foundation infrastructure and services. This includes production clusters, Wikimedia Cloud Services, Toolforge hosting, the Beta Cluster, and other data services.
 * Wikidata - Technical documentation related to the Wikidata project, particularly the Tools page.
 * PAWS - Documentation about PAWS, Wikimedia's hosted Jupyter notebooks instance. Notebooks are frequently used to create tutorials and documentation for Wikimedia technology.
 * Phabricator - Phabricator is a collaboration tool that is used by the Wikimedia technical community for task and bug management. You can find many issues and software projects documented here. Use best practices for software documentation when filing tasks and interacting in this space.

Documentation structure
This includes user guides, API documentation, tutorials, development information and reference materials related to specific projects.
 * On :
 * A Technical Manual for information about the MediaWiki Software.
 * Project based documentation.
 * Help pages contain end-user specific documentation and  provide some on-demand documentation.
 * Auto-generated API documentation:
 * Action API reference
 * REST API reference
 * 미디어위키 자체의 소스 코드에서 생성되는 문서: doc.wikimedia.org.
 * Text files in the /docs directory of MediaWiki source tree have code related information.

Supporting resources include blogs, talk pages and discussion forums.

Documentation audiences
Primary users of the MediaWiki documentation and the most useful set of pages for each user-group are listed below.

at and meta are concise forms of end-user documentation. Pages linked to and  contain sysadmin specific information. Manual:Contents serves as the reference guide. MediaWiki Administrator's Handbook and contain resources for administrators. serves as the reference guide. , and linked pages are a starting point for beginners. Experienced developers refer to. References include, , , , , etc., besides the software installation guidelines. Pages linked to. and for getting started followed by the project specific mediawiki pages.
 * Wiki users (end users of the MediaWiki software)
 * System administrators
 * Wiki administrators
 * Developers
 * Code developers and administrators
 * Add-ons developers
 * Designers
 * Translators and technical writers

For a more comprehensive exploration of the types of people who use Wikimedia technical documentation and their motivations, see Audiences for Wikimedia technical documentation.

Get started
New to technical documentation on Wikimedia projects? This page will help you get started right away.