Developer Satisfaction Survey/2021/Categories/Documentation



  📖 Developer Satisfaction 2021 The developer satisfaction survey is an annual survey of the Wikimedia developer community. The survey asks questions about Wikimedia developer tooling, practices, and documentation.

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Documentation
"💬 I feel like there is lots of confusion about what goes on Meta, MediaWiki.org, and Wikitech, and things are spread out a bit."

<div class="dss-main_big-numbers"> <div class="dss-main_big-numbers-blue"> <div class="dss-main_big-numbers-number">29% <div class="dss-main_big-numbers-explainer"> <div class="dss-main_big-numbers-icon">🔖 <div class="dss-main_big-numbers-explainer"> 29% of comments mention document organization <div class="dss-main_big-numbers-green"> <div class="dss-main_big-numbers-number">13% <div class="dss-main_big-numbers-explainer"> <div class="dss-main_big-numbers-icon">💳 <div class="dss-main_big-numbers-explainer"> 13% of comments were about lack of resources to make docs better

Examples
We asked people to provide examples of good documentation that they've seen.

Documentation types
We asked about 3 different types of documentation: quickstart documentation, Tutorials, and Background and Context documentation for all of our categories

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