Thread:MediaWiki talk:Sidebar/How to contribute and Wikimedia Engineering

Hi. I just added two links to the sidebar: How to contribute in the main section, and Wikimedia Engineering in the "Development" section.

How to contribute has become our main landing page for people interested in contributing to tech activities. It's linked to from the main page, but I'm guessing that many people arrive on mediawiki.org via other pages, so I think there's value in also adding it to the sidebar. I put it in the top section because it's not just about development.

Wikimedia Engineering is now an actually useful portal, and contains information that is automatically updated with recent content. I think there's value in adding it to the sidebar because of the large amount of work being done by Wikimedia engineers on MediaWiki. For volunteers, the link will make it easier to find up-to-date information about recent and future tech changes, and for Wikimedia engineers it will be easier to find the relevant pages to update. I see this as a win-win situation :)

I think these two links are uncontroversial, but if someone has concerns I'm happy to discuss this further to find a solution that satisfies everyone.