Thread:Project:Current issues/Adding a dev namespace for "Data and developer hub" articles/reply (15)

API:Showing_nearby_wiki_information vs http://devhub.wmflabs.org/wiki/API:Showing_nearby_wiki_information might look basically equivalent to regular users of mediawiki.org because we are used to Vector skin and the dozens of extra links in the header and sidebar (to which we are effectively blind by now). However, for new users interested only in the Wikimedia API and landing directly in one of these pages... most of those 36 links (I counted) will contribute between noise and confusion, on top of the outdated look of Vector.

Considering that most mediawiki.org users don't land lightly in Api: namespace, and those who land there probably also land in doc.wikimedia.org (which has a completely different UI), I think that offering a good experience to these new developers is better than risking a bit of confusion to some mediawiki.org users. And I still claim that such confusion is more theoretical than practical, which is why I'm proposing to run a test with a big button to revert.