{"id":1680,"date":"2014-04-09T23:31:13","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T23:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2014-04-09T23:31:13","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T23:31:13","slug":"news-from-mdn-events-migrations-glossary-and-platform-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/community\/2014\/04\/09\/news-from-mdn-events-migrations-glossary-and-platform-improvements\/","title":{"rendered":"News from MDN: events, migrations, glossary, and platform improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are some happenings in the MDN community that were shared in the most recent MDN community meeting<\/a>. MDN Community meetings take place every other Wednesday, at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time, in the #mdn channel on irc.mozilla.org. The MDN Community meetings<\/a> section of the Mozilla wiki has notes for past meetings; a page is created for the agenda of each upcoming meeting a few days beforehand.<\/p>\n

Events<\/h2>\n

MDN community members Jannis Lidel, Florian Scholz, and Jean-Yves Perrier attended the Write The Docs EU<\/a> conference in Budapest, on March 31 to April 1st. Jannis gave a talk on Search and Find: Making MDN Discoverable<\/a>. They reported enjoying it thoroughly, and recommend such conferences to other MDN community members. For example, Write The Docs US<\/a> is coming up in Portland in May (Ali Spivak is speaking), and OpenHelp<\/a> is in Cincinnati in June (I am speaking; let me know if you want to attend). <\/p>\n

Florian and Jean-Yves also went to a Mozilla German community doc sprint Berlin, which covered both MDN and SUMO. They worked on translating docs for Firefox Developer Tools into German<\/a>, and on recording translations of the Dev Tools screencasts. <\/p>\n

\"Community<\/a><\/p>\n

Content<\/h2>\n

Now that Kuma’s support for moving pages seems to be working pretty well, a big push will be happening over the next few weeks to move pages into a more rational structure. This work will be based on the analysis of MDN’s “content islands”<\/a> done by Florian Scholz, and may include archiving obsolete docs and deleting irrelevant docs.<\/p>\n

In a similar vein, work on reorganizing MDN’s “meta-documentation”<\/a> is nearly completed, except for a few straggling pages. Once that’s completed, we’ll have retrospective to look at what still needs to be done to improve it. Stay tuned to the dev-mdc discussion list<\/a> for details. <\/p>\n

The first phase of the project to revitalize the Learning Area of MDN<\/a> is now underway, which is to flesh out the glossary<\/a>. Ideally, each item should have a one- or two-sentence summary, a more detailed “In depth” section, and links to other sources to learn more.<\/p>\n

Platform<\/h2>\n

The MDN web development team has greatly improved the experience of the revision dashboard<\/a><\/strong>. It’s now much faster and lets you view multiple diffs inline. <\/p>\n

On the project to improve compatibility tables<\/strong> on MDN, the data requirements<\/a> have now been defined and the data schema is being finalized. Follow the tracking bug<\/a> to stay current. The project leader, J\u00e9r\u00e9mie Patonnier, will start working with the UX team to improve the contribution workflow for compatibility data. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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