Good idea. We need a driver, though. Any volunteers?

Maybe we could join this: http://www.writethedocs.org/conf/ to convince people

Framing this activity within something bigger makes sense. Good idea!

Would this task or any of the subtasks be a good candidate for Wikimania-Hackathon-2016? We are looking for tasks for newcomers / not very tech participants -- see T132721: Wikimania 2016 Hackathon Goals.

In T126500#2075197, @samuwmde wrote:

Maybe we could join this: http://www.writethedocs.org/conf/ to convince people

We are missing many conferences, but we can still focus on two:

• Write The Docs Europe Unconference, July 19-20 2014, Berlin, Germany
• Write The Docs Europe, Aug 31-Sep 1, 2015, Prague, Czech Republic

Any drivers willing to volunteer? The WMF might have some travel budget if there are volunteers with a track record on technical documentation interested in participating at these events.

In T126500#2238512, @Qgil wrote:

We are missing many conferences, but we can still focus on two:

• Write The Docs Europe Unconference, July 19-20 2014, Berlin, Germany
• Write The Docs Europe, Aug 31-Sep 1, 2015, Prague, Czech Republic

Assuming wrong block picked to copypaste, so, the (ATM) actual is:

Write the Docs Europe, September 18-20, Prague, Czech Republic

Any drivers willing to volunteer? The WMF might have some travel budget if there are volunteers with a track record on technical documentation interested in participating at these events.

I'll check the conditions there and will decide then.

Removing Team Practices Group for now. Suggest you consider using a template along the lines of the example requests here:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Team_Practices_Group/How_To_Engage_With_TPG

Would this task be a good topic for the Wikimedia-Developer-Summit (2017) ? If so, the deadline to submit new proposals is next Monday, October 31: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/Call_for_participation

@Qgil I'd be very interested in a proposal around this, but honestly the nature and scope of the expected activities for the summit aren't clear from the CFP page. Maybe one or two generic examples, or ballpark estimates in terms of expected duration, level of structure, type (hands-on, discussion, presentation?...) would be useful. Or even some highlights among current proposals which could serve as inspiration.

Let's discuss what can be done in the context of Wikimedia-Developer-Summit (2017) at T149372: MediaWiki Documentation.

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Would anyone object if I pick this up and run with it? I'm thinking of scheduling it for Friday, May 12th. Does that conflict with anything important?

I don't think anyone would object any attempts to improve our docs, on the contrary. :)

@srishakatux, @Qgil: I've boldly created a page at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Documentation_Day_2017. Feel free to add to it or revise it completely. I'll send out an announcement to Wikitech-l and other venues this week. Let's not worry about making it perfect. We can just try it out on a small scale and see what happens. That's how Wikipedia started after all!

Got sign-off from Victoria and will be emailing out the announcement momentarily.

@kaldari Sounds great! Just wanted to add that there is a WriteTheDocs meetup happening this week on Thursday at WMF --
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Write_the_Docs_San_Francisco_Meetup_May_2017. You're welcome to join and share what projects you're looking to get help on for documentation!

Thank you very much for organizing this!

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Documentation_Day_2017#Results exists (and looks good).

@kaldari: Anything else left to do here, or can this task be closed as resolved?

Would be nice to repeat it from time to time, though.

Sure, Tgr, that can be done. Do you think it makes more sense as a remote effort, that's isolated from the rest of the tech events, or could it be something like a track at a physical event - would it be more effective?