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Session Details

Navigating Wikimedia tech spaces can feel like crawling through a dungeon. Docs are the tools (and healing potions) we need to survive! This interactive session will be a structured discussion focusing on the following questions:

• What are the challenges and pitfalls in writing and maintaining technical documentation?
• What tools and strategies do we have to help us approach these challenges?
• What are the rewards of focusing on documentation, and how can we stay motivated as a technical community to continuously build a culture of documentation?
• How we can create excitement and use documentation to conquer the dungeon together?

Key takeaways

Participants in this session (or those who provide input asynchronously) will:

• Help define and direct our technical documentation efforts.
• Help technical writers and WMF identify ways to support and enable everyone's documentation contributions.
• Support connection and empathy with other community members who share your documentation interests and struggles.
• Reveal opportunities for collaboration!

During this session, participants will be using live discussion in the Jitsi call and/or written input via multiple Etherpads to contribute to the discussion. After the Hackathon, we'll aggregate all the points from the live & Etherpad discussions and summarize it all here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation/Technical_documentation_community_and_outreach_programs/Hackathon_2022_docs_discussions

Slides from the session

Etherpads (comments will be aggregated and moved to wiki discussion page):

• Documentation challenges
• Documentation motivations and rewards
• Documentation tools and resources
• Documentation strategies
• Documentation supports

Does https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation/Technical_documentation_community_and_outreach_programs/Hackathon_2022_docs_discussions still need an update? :)

Yes, I haven't had time to finish aggregating all the feedback yet bc of
focusing on dev portal launch stuff. Back on this now though!