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Documentation Day for 2018?

Elitre-WMF

Hi!
I am simply reporting Sam’s question from the comments section of this lovely post about Wikimedia documentation, about whether there may be another https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Documentation_Day_2017 anytime soon.

I understand that this is an initiative entirely run by volunteers, and probably Wikitech or other venues would work better to leverage some interest.

RazeSoldier

People who I joined in a mediawiki development discussion group also complain about too little localization in mediawiki.org. Localization is a good thing, and I will translate some of the page when I have free time.

samwilson

If it’s done on about the same date, it’d be Friday May 11th.

Maybe we should just start https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Documentation_Day_2018 and see what happens. @kaldari are you in on this?

Nikerabbit

May 11 is very close to the Hackathon which has documentation as one of its focus areas.

sahil505

I would definitely be interested in contributing to this, looking forward to it :slight_smile:

Tgr

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

Nikerabbit

Can be either! There can be synergies if coordinated.

Tgr

@cicalese since you have some documentation-related plans maybe you’d be willing to present this idea to WMF management? (Assuming we want a similar event to 2017, when WMF staff members were empowered to put aside other work and focus on documentation for that day.)