User:APaskulin (WMF)/Docs Personas

These personas are defined in relation to their information needs for the purpose of creating and maintaining documentation for MediaWiki and Wikimedia projects.

As a developer, I want to include Wikimedia content in my app.

• Read-only access to Wikimedia content (edge case: uploading files)
• May not be involved with a Wikimedia project community
• Primary concerns
  • Formats
  • Needing to do as little as possible on my side/getting exactly what I need or as close as possible
  • Performance/optimization/limits
  • Searching/knowing what to ask for
• User journey
  • I understand what is available
  • I am inspired by example projects
  • I know how to get started

I want to use Wikimedia data in my research or data analysis.

• https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Data
• https://research.wikimedia.org/ includes the output of the research team
• Wikidata

I want to customize my wiki experience in my browser.

• Discover preferences and gadgets
• Write custom CSS and JS
• Submit user scripts for inclusion as gadgets (tied to a specific project community)

I want to automate maintenance tasks for a Wikimedia project.

• Gadgets, tools, and bots
• Tied to a specific project community
• Discover and use existing tools
• Request a tool
• Maintain a tool
• Develop a tool

As someone new to open source, I want to contribute to open source.

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_Developers

As an experienced developer, I want to contribute to a Wikimedia open source project.

• Contribute to MediaWiki core (PHP) or extensions (PHP + JavaScript)
• Contribute to tools used and requested by project communities

I want to contribute documentation to a Wikimedia project.

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation/Style_guide

As a PHP developer, I want to develop new functionality for MediaWiki.

• Extensions (PHP + JavaScript)

I want to run my own wiki using MediaWiki.

• MediaWiki platform docs at mediawiki.org