Wikimedia technical documentation: Friends of the Docs

Friends of the Docs is a group that is open to all members of the Wikimedia technical community who are interested in advocating for better technical documentation for Wikimedia projects. This page provides information about current and past projects to improve technical documentation and grow the community of contributors.

Friends of the Docs currently hang out in the #wikimedia-techdocs ^connect channel on libera.chat.

Focus areas

Identify top priorities to improve and elevate technical documentation across Wikimedia projects.
Create standard requirements and processes for creating new tutorials and other technical documents.
Update and improve existing technical documentation.
Identify and support advocates for better technical documentation.

Recommended resources

Conversations and Community: The Social Web for Documentation by Anne Gentle
Any friend of the docs is a friend of mine: Cultivating a community of documentation advocates by Heather Stenson
mw:Technical_Document_Re-working_Group/Resources

Historical information

This section contains information about past activities of this group in its different iterations.

As Friends of the Docs

Projects:

Meetings:

As Technical Document (Re)working Group

Members:

The group was formerly a membership-based special interest group that applied a process of auditing, extension, review, and iteration to Wikimedia technical documentation, but was limited to improving Scoring Platform team and Cloud Services documentation. In October 2019, the group was renamed to Friends of the Docs.