User:Zakgreant/Report/2010/07/08/Log

Participated various WikiSym open spaces sessions + lots of discussions with fellow participants.

Coordinated open space session on the MediaWiki docs (thanks to Danese for taking notes)

MediaWiki/Wikipedia Ops Docs Jam[edit]

Notes from OpenSpace Session 2:00pm Thursday, 8 July 2010

For Developer-Facing Docs:

Make it easier for Volunteer Devs to extend and use MediaWiki
Set up the Docs as a tool to move the Volunteer Dev Community towards higher competency (begin as we'd like to continue...in tone and general norms of addressing future devs*)
Writing for Audience (Roan suggests looking at TimS's "Security for Developers" memo). Discussion of the levels of programming that go on...Hooks vs. the Caching Layer for instance
Documentation on existing extensions - probably a focus for later. The ones used at WMF should be held to a higher standard. CentralAuth a very bad example, relies on SiteConfiguration to work, but this fact isn't mentioned.

For Ops Docs:

Standard URLs for each code / feature element
Marking code for flaws such as poor security
Log bot for mediawiki_security to catch crisis interventions for later documentation
Discussion of various bots that already run...
Discussion of bug system
Shell access?