Consolidate MediaWiki Help Documentation
Personal information
Name: Tabah Baridule Martins
Email: tabahbaridule@gmail.com
Professional information
Writing Samples portfolio
https://dev.to/dule_martins Here is a link to my article on dev.to a platform for a developer’s blog.
https://www.clippings.me/dule_martins the attached link is a publicly accessible portfolio of my writing samples.
Overview of my recent technical writing experience
I currently work as a technical writer with Zarttech - A social-driven HR tech company based in the Netherlands, my role requires me to create, edit, and maintain new or existing documentation to support the software development process. Bridging the gap between software engineers, project managers, and software users.
At Zarttech our software development team uses the microservice architecture, and I have successfully documented these services, creating a software design doc, functional requirement, and feature-oriented documentation to help project managers and software developers better gain an understanding of what is expected.
As a technical writer, I have provided my organization with concise and clear docs for its products and led the docs for our microservices architecture working with our head of engineering and our lead software architecture as SMEs, which serve as a guide to our developer building our products.
I’m part of an open-source technical writing community, where we organize meetups to educate ourselves on best practices within the technical writing domain. I have contributed to a few open-source projects like Ansible by Red Hat and AsyncAPI, below are links to my PRs made to these open-source projects.
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/78387
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/78386
https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/pull/131
https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/865
Curriculum Vitae
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tabah-baridule/
Baridule’ Resume
Project Statement
Project title: Consolidate MediaWiki Help Documentation
Project approach description:
My approach to consolidating the MediaWiki Help Documentation will be to create an account on Mediawiki.org
Set up and run MediaWiki by downloading, installing, and configuring the MediaWiki.
Add other functionality that are necessary by downloading extensions
Get to familiarize myself with the developer documentation for MediaWiki
Make use of the support desk if I am faced with a blocker
I will use MediaWiki to edit and Reduce the number of pages on Meta
Navigate to the page on Meta, review the content based on the provided style guide found on the developer documentation portal, increase the conciseness, and provide clarity.
Research Wikimedia-specific content, and use my findings to organize the help page on Meta.
As the community manager for writethedocs Nigeria, I reached out to Alex Paskulin, on February 29th, inviting her to our community webinar focusing on Google Season of Docs, she accepted our invite and gave an informative talk that inspired a lot of our community members to apply for this year Google Season of Docs. It was an awesome experience and I remain very grateful for that.
After the webinar on the 3rd of April, I recently reached her via the writethedocs slack channel about my interest in contributing to the Wikimedia Foundation as part of this year's Google Season of Docs participant.
Proposed timeline
WEEKS / DESCRIPTION
5 weeks
Onboarding / Information gathering across all pages
10 weeks
Writing my content draft across all pages
5 weeks
Review, update, and organizing of content
3 week
Publication and monitoring of content for feedback
I will commit 20 hours per week to this project.
Note: my timeline is in line with the project’s timeline and it is dependent on responses to queries within 2 -3 days