Wikimedia technical documentation: Friends of the Docs

Friends of the Docs is a group that is open to all members of the Wikimedia technical community who are interested in advocating for better technical documentation for Wikimedia projects. This page provides information about current and past projects to improve technical documentation and grow the community of contributors.

Focus areas

 * Identify top priorities to improve and elevate technical documentation across Wikimedia projects.
 * Create standard requirements and processes for creating new tutorials and other technical documents.
 * Update and improve existing technical documentation.
 * Identify and support advocates for better technical documentation.

Past projects

 * Developer Advocacy/Developer Portal
 * Technical Document Re-working Group/Technical Communication Outreach and Events
 * Suggested task lists:
 * Technical Document Re-working Group/WriteTheDocs (2018)
 * Technical Document Re-working Group/Wikimania 2018

Discussion and contact
Our primary coordination and discussion takes place via the talk page.

Recommended resources

 * Conversations and Community: The Social Web for Documentation by Anne Gentle
 * Any friend of the docs is a friend of mine: Cultivating a community of documentation advocates by Heather Stenson
 * Technical_Document_Re-working_Group/Resources

Historical meeting notes and minutes

 * Past members of the Working Group
 * Sarah R. Rodlund - Chair
 * Bryan Davis
 * Aaron Halfaker
 * Nick Wilson

The group was formerly a membership-based special interest group that applied a process of auditing, extension, review, and iteration to Wikimedia technical documentation, but was limited to improving Scoring Platform team and Cloud Services documentation. In October 2019, the group was renamed to Friends of the Docs.

Meetings from when the group was the Technical Document (Re)working Group