User:APaskulin (WMF)/History

Quickstart: My currently assigned tasks

Quarterly

April - June 2023
Established the Technical Documentation Team as part of the reorganization of the Product and Technology departments, and participated in the annual planning process Created documentation strategy and API docs for AQS 2.0 services and RESTBase deprecation Implemented structural changes in the API Portal to support multiple APIs Created documentation and tools to support API documentation Researched documentation types and templates, and published a decision record template Hosted 6 sessions of documentation office hours within WMF, averaging 1 person per session

January - March 2023
Published new API Portal information architecture to Phabricator, and advocated for its adoption Administered the API Portal, including adding an API, responding to feedback, reviewing 5 patches, and submitting 2 patches. Started adding API docs guidance to the Documentation pages on mediawiki.org Improved docs and docs workflows for AQS 2.0 Supported the Developer Portal, including reviewing patches, submitting patches, and setting up pageview statistics Published v2 of the development policy governance proposal and requested feedback from stakeholders Hosted 7 sessions of documentation office hours within WMF, averaging 1 person per session Prototyped a training and set of tools for writing for multilingual communication, and started sharing for feedback

October - December 2022
Designed a new information architecture for the API Portal, aligned with the overall strategy for the API Platform, and started prototyping. Created a proposal for governing development policies, and shared it with 12 stakeholders. Designed and implemented a new information architecture for the Architecture Repository. Provided editing support for system architecture documents. Helped facilitate a "documentathon" with WMF Data Engineering, Analytics, and Research. Held twice-monthly documentation office hours within WMF, averaging one person per session.

July - September 2022
Completed initial research into writing for multilingual communication, including case studies, tool evaluation, and recommendations for user tests. Researched, implemented, and documented an API documentation toolchain for AQS 2.0 Onboarded a new API Platform product manager and designed a new information architecture for the API Portal Provided editing support for system architecture artifacts Worked with the Architecture Team to plan a refresh of the Architecture Repository Held twice-monthly documentation office hours within WMF, averaging two people per session

April - June 2022
Launched the Developer Portal two weeks ahead of deadline with 100% translation in three languages other than English Created 39 patches for the Developer Portal, adding 5,820 lines and removing 3,547 lines Reviewed 28 patches for the Developer Portal Conducted 5 user tests and assisted with note-taking on 4 other user tests using a diverse pool of participants in partnership with Design Research Published first version of documentation patterns and toolkit based on review process used during the KR1 project Attending the (virtual) Write the Docs conference Participated in the CommTech and Wikimedia hackathons Conducted two interviews to support hiring a new tech writer, and assisted with onboarding Held twice-monthly documentation office hours within WMF, averaging two people per session

January - March 2022
Created and merged 16 patches for the Dev Portal, adding 861 lines and removing 930 lines, including content, structure, design, macros, and templates Reviewed 16 patches, mostly for the Dev Portal Graded 9 candidate writing samples to support hiring two tech writing positions Implemented a lightweight work tracking process for the Architecture Team Acted as advisor for Project Pralekhan Continued to support the API Portal and API Platform team Held twice-monthly documentation office hours within WMF, averaging two people per session

October - December 2021
Iterated on Developer Portal design and content strategy, evolving the project from v1 to v4 Facilitated an evaluation and consensus-based decision making process to select the tech stack for the Developer Portal and get a demo up on Toolforge Operationalized the key docs review process, completing three key doc updates and leading the team to complete 100% of their target Onboarded new tech writer to make valuable contributions to KR1 The Docs project in three weeks Created content for two MVP versions of the API catalog, including drafting documentation for the Backstage API catalog Contributed to architecture domain modeling and executive overview presentation Acted as grant advisor for Project Pralekhan Completed my targeted 10 hours of professional development time Produced a proposal for a centralized tech docs team at WMF Edited docs and marketing content for Wikimedia Enterprise launch Held twice-monthly documentation office hours within WMF, averaging two people per session

July - September 2021
Created an information architecture and initial design for the Developer Portal, taking the project from v0 to v1 Developed a set of user personas and a live, Vue-based prototype to enable user testing for the Developer Portal Created a standardization process for key docs linked to from the Developer Portal Redefined the scope of the API Portal and facilitated knowledge sharing to spin up the new API Platform team Helped build the practice of user-centered writing and user testing in the Architecture team Attended virtual Wikimania and API Specifications conferences Participated in the hiring panel for a technical writer position at WMF Held twice-monthly documentation office hours within WMF, averaging three people per session

April - June 2021
168 edits to mediawiki.org Virtual All Hands! Virtual Write the Docs and editathon! Virtual Hackathon! Facilitated the creation of the knowledge store data model, a key component of the target architecture Made usability improvements to the Architecture Repository Continued support for the API Portal, including content updates, user support, product management support, bug reporting, and onboarding a new docs contributor Effectively socialized my API docs proposal and was successful in getting that work scheduled for next quarter Helped write a documentation-related org-level KR for documentation for next quarter and started project management support for it Held twice-monthly documentation office hours within WMF, averaging 1 person per session Participated in a complete hiring process, from drafting interview questions to onboarding Experimented with VuePress and automated testing for documentation

January - March 2021
General 264 edits to mediawiki.org 8 patches merged (XS and S, five different codebases including mediawiki-config and Extension:OAuth) 1 patch reviewed and +2ed API Portal Resolved last remaining bugs, passed all end-to-end tests, and officially completed the MVP 20 tasks opened 29 tasks closed Closed 10 tasks assigned to me Handed off product management of the API Portal Created a proposal for API Portal reference docs Created workflow process for components Reviewed all edits and responded to all talk page posts Added docs for two new endpoints Architecture Contributed to Phoenix UI and docs Created Architecture Repository on mediawki.org Created communications process for the team

October - December 2020
General 44 edits to mediawiki.org 7 patches merged (3 XS, 2 S, 2 M) 22 patches reviewed 15 patches +2’d API Portal Opened 52 tasks Closed 64 tasks Closed 26 tasks assigned to me Completed private launch and soft launch Conducted 9 user tests Continued to maintain sprint logs and project plan Outreach Completed co-mentorship for Google Season of Docs Co-hosted a Friends of the Docs meetup

July - September 2020
General 250 edits to mediawiki.org 13 patches merged (1 L, 2 S, rest XS) 14 patches reviewed 2 patches +2’d 3 TechCom meetings facilitated Attended the API Specifications Conference Architecture Started building out architecture docs on mediawiki.org User research and outreach Hosted Wikimedia session at Write the Docs “Portland” writing day Hosted two meetings of Wikimedia Friends of the Docs Acted as co-mentor and co-administrator for Google Season of Docs API Portal Opened 83 tasks Closed 60 tasks Closed 26 tasks assigned to me Completed design validation for skin Completed acceptance testing for extension Sent two project digests Maintained a list of tasks across team members for five, two-week sprints, including which tasks were closed during each sprint Developed style for reference docs

April - June 2020
General 488 edits to mediawiki.org (including sandbox pages) 4 patches merged (2 XS, 1 S, and 1 XL) 8 patches reviewed First +2 (MediaWiki Core docs) Found my first bug Facilitation for 6 TechCom meetings Guest on Between the Brackets podcast Architecture Joined the Wikimedia Foundation Architecture Team Information design for architecture maturity model on mediawiki.org Supported planning for architecture documentation strategy User research and outreach Rough version of a documentation metrics dashboard Data analysis for "Was this documentation helpful?" gadget Presented to the first meeting of Wikimedia Friends of the Docs Mentor and co-administrator for Google Season of Docs Launched weekly documentation office hours to support Foundation teams (12 sessions starting April 14) Development of docs for the MediaWiki REST API Published docs for 11 endpoints (100% of endpoints in v1) Tested and published 45 code samples (100% of endpoints have code samples in curl, PHP, Python, and JavaScript) Conducted three usability tests Improved maintainability by reducing content length by 56% Published two tutorials Documentation support for new hooks system Edited doc comments for 446 hooks Managed doc updates for new system Updated MediaWikiHook template for new system Doxygen config updates to support hook docs API Portal Completed design approval process with WMF design team UI and UX development Took on role of product owner Managed the project plan, workflows, and content strategy 13 check-ins with HalloWelt Opened 25 tasks (Closed 8) Demoed the prototype at CPT demo meeting Created the API Gateway stakeholders Google Group and sent two API Portal project digests

January - March 2020
Completed collaboration with contract designer, Liz, on Developer Portal design Started hooks doc comment review project Drafted the documentation plan for the API Gateway Forked the Developer Portal prototype to create the API Gateway prototype Tech docs offsite Facilitation for TechCom Evaluated two tools for automated API documentation Wrote four MediaWiki REST API examples as Jupyter Notebooks Participated in the Onboarding Working Group Documented 8 new endpoints of the MediaWiki REST API Attended Wikimedia All Hands Researched improvements to the OAuth docs

October - December 2019
Refreshed onboarding docs for Wikimedia Engineering and CPT Developed content strategy for Developer Portal project and worked with designer to implement UI/UX Published docs for MediaWiki API integration tests Developed docs for MediaWiki Core REST API history endpoints and extension interface Mentor for Google Code-In Facilitation for TechCom CPT remote offsite

August - September 2019
Onboarding Developed docs for MediaWiki API integration tests Minor fixes for MediaWiki Doxygen docs Drafted user personas for documentation

Weekly

2023-2024 Q1
Week 1: 2023-07-03 Out of office on Monday and Tuesday Shared team practices work with the team for feedback and published processes to Office Wiki Facilitated team discussion about the top-level collection map Week 2: 2023-07-10 Kicked off project to update mediawiki.org project pages, and started content audit Completed definition of team lead responsibilities Project management, code review, and feedback Week 3: 2023-07-17 Code review for AQS 2.0 docs patches Created team interface pages on office wiki Attended management meetings, and drafted hypothesis for team contributions to the annual plan Week 4: 2023-07-24 Completed ongoing maintenance tasks process for team practices project Updated decision record template with two versions, and conducted a user test Provided feedback on the frontend stable interface policy Week 5: 2023-07-31 Code review for AQS 2.0 and MediaWiki patches Completed content audit for mediawiki.org project pages Week 6: 2023-08-07 Participated in a technical knowledge sharing session for the documentation metrics dashboard Researched the status of MediaWiki help content on Meta-Wiki and published mw:Project:MediaWiki documentation on Meta-Wiki Week 7: 2023-08-14 Completed the scope and project plan for the mediawiki.org project pages update

2022-2023 Q4
Week 1: 2023-04-03 Worked on training and writeup for writing for multilingual communication Contributed to organizational planning and updates Week 2: 2023-04-10 Started a page for technical writing on Office Wiki Kicked off this quarter's research into documentation content types Started a first version of a documentation tool compendium on mediawiki.org Published conclusions from Q3 work to User:APaskulin_(WMF)/Research/Writing_for_multilingual_communication#April_2023 Week 3: 2023-04-17 Participated in hypotheses crafting for the annual planning processes Drafted and shared suggested edits to the Terms of Use update Week 4: 2023-04-25 Updated API docs for Device Analytics Added to tool documentation on mw:Documentation/API_documentation Updated Language_guides with links to more language guides Received news that we'll be forming a Wikimedia Foundation Technical Documentation Team Week 5: 2023-05-01 Participated in hypothesis week for annual planning Provided editing support for architecture artifacts and metrics platform documentation Updated code samples in response to Pythons requests issue Week 6: 2023-05-08 Worked on training and writeup for writing for plain language Created AQS documentation plan to fit project plan Week 7: 2023-05-15 Reviewed and updated metrics API docs in RESTBase Implemented version control system for API spec reader Week 8: 2023-05-22 Documented page analytics API Wrote a decision record for the API spec reader Week 9: 2023-05-29 Worked on API documentation tooling issues for AQS 2.0 services Worked on API Portal strategy and management Week 10: 2023-06-05 Worked on setup and practices for the Tech Docs Team Created a plan for deprecating Architecture Team docs on wiki Week 11: 2023-06-12 Updated API Portal structure and content to support multiple APIs Created a decision record template and shared for feedback Completed deprecating Architecture Team docs on wiki Week 12: 2023-06-19 Code review and patch updates for AQS 2.0 API documentation Created plan for API docs for RESTBase deprecation project Worked on team practices Week 13: 2023-06-26 Published decision record template to mw:Documentation/Decision_records End-of-quarter and end-of-year wrap up

2022-2023 Q3
Week 1: 2023-01-03 Completed quarter-in-review materials for Q2 Researched coverage of skins in MediaWiki developer docs Week 2: 2023-01-09 Completed updates based on research into coverage of skins in MediaWiki developer docs Researched accessibility and translation issues relating to writing for multilingual communication Week 3: 2023-01-17 Completed API Portal content map Updated the API Portal docs on Wikitech, reviewed an API Portal patch, and opened a patch to resolve a build failure Week 4: 2023-01-23 Created a strategy document for technical documentation work for next fiscal year Analyzed efficacy of translated text from the Universal Code of Conduct project Week 5: 2023-01-30 Published high-level docs content map Published new API Portal content strategy to Phabricator Week 6: 2023-02-06 Submitted patch to resolve API Portal issue Out of office Week 7: 2023-02-13 Requested approval for the new API Portal content strategy Created user journey flow diagrams for the API Portal Published an example of an API page Week 8: 2023-02-20 Created a tool in Toolforge to view OpenAPI specs with RapiDoc Participated in the API value stream demo presentation and tech department meeting Week 9: 2023-02-27 Drafted content for Documentation/API documentation page on mediawiki.org Processed a request to add docs to the API Portal Drafted content for v2 of the development policy governance proposal Week 10: 2023-03-06 Opened a patch to add pageview statistic to the Developer Portal Onboarded Lift Wing team as contributors to the API Portal Organized docs tasks for AQS 2.0 on wiki and opened a patch for automating the docs build Week 11: 2023-03-13 Published the first version of Documentation/API documentation Set up local API Portal development environment and reviewed a patch Published v2 of the development policy governance proposal Week 12: 2023-03-20 Published notes on writing related to accessibility Conducted a content audit of wiki pages related to writing for multilingual communication Provided edits and feedback for the Lift Wing docs in the API Portal Week 13: 2023-03-26 Requested feedback from stakeholders (via Phabricator, email, and on wiki) on the updated proposal for managing development policies Collaborated with Device Analytics developers on a strategy for generating and deploying API docs. Merged make docs command into the codebase. Reached consensus on an approach for deploying API specs Created and shared prototypes for writing for multilingual communication

2022-2023 Q2
1-2 main areas of focus per week Week 1: 2022-10-03 Worked with the AQS 2.0 team to demo and discuss API docs tooling. Published Q1 updates to the wiki page for Writing for Multilingual Communication. Week 2: 2022-10-11 Worked on proposal for development policy governance. Planned for documentation editathon with WMF Data Engineering. Week 3: 2022-10-17 Completed initial proposal for development policy governance, and shared with a small group for feedback. Reviewed proposal for Pywikibot content improvements. Week 4: 2022-10-24 Incorporated feedback on the proposal for development policy governance, and shared for additional feedback. Provided editing support for system architecture analysis document. Week 5: 2022-10-31 Started notes on a new information architecture for the API Portal. Helped facilitate a documentation editathon with Data Engineering. Week 6: 2022-11-07 Completed initial information architecture for the API Portal, and discussed with Product Manager. Provided editing support for system architecture analysis document. Week 7: 2022-11-14 Created a condensed version of WMF Architecture's process document. Planned interview questions for Staff Architect position, and started interviews. Week 8: 2022-11-21 Designed and prototyped a refresh of the Architecture Repository, and shared with the team for feedback. Reviewed introduction to Wikimedia technical ecosystem document. Week 9: 2022-11-28 Completed interviews for Staff Architect position. Drafted list of tech docs stakeholders for WMF Engineering Enablement strategy process. Week 10: 2022-12-05 Started a content map for the API Portal and prototypes of an API page and an API design doc template. Reached consensus with the AQS 2.0 team to formally adopt the API docs tooling we've been evaluating. Opened a patch to resolve issues with the Unique Devices API docs. Week 11: 2022-12-12 Completed the refresh of the Architecture Repository, including creating, moving, and updating content. Participated in an API Platform strategy discussion, and worked on the API Portal content map. Week 12: 2022-12-19 Provided editing support for system architecture documents. Reviewed MediaWiki core concepts document.

2022-2023 Q1
Note: I've made these lists more concise, focusing on progress made in main areas of work. Week 1: 2022-07-18 Caught up on email and meetings after returning from vacation Reviewed Dev Portal patch to fix Twitter cards Started research on writing for multilingual communication Week 2: 2022-07-25 Worked on decision record for development policy governance Provided editing support for architecture system analysis Week 3: 2022-08-01 Provided editing support for architecture system analysis Started research into decision record pattern Week 4: 2022-08-08 Met with new API product manager and worked on new API portal content strategy Worked on case studies for writing for multilingual communication Week 5: 2022-08-15 Audited current content in the Architecture Repository and discussed next steps with the team Provided editing support for architecture team proposal document Celebrating my three-year anniversary of working at WMF Week 6: 2022-08-22 Worked on API Platform knowledge transfer for new product manager Started research on AQS 2.0 docs Worked on content refresh for the Architecture Repository Worked on decision record pattern Reviewed slides from US Federal Plain Language Summit Week 7: 2022-08-29 Worked on AQS 2.0 docs research and wrote a script to scrape endpoints from AQS source code Reviewed API platform project docs Week 8: 2022-09-06 Worked on case studies for writing for multilingual communication Worked on AQS 2.0 documentation Started participated in WMF Core Skills Program Week 9: 2022-09-12 Worked on implementation of Swag and RapiDoc for AQS 2.0 Week 10: 2022-09-19 Completed initial implementation of Swag and RapiDoc for AQS 2.0 Completed proposal for Architecture Repository refresh Week 11: 2022-09-26 Started end-of-quarter retrospective notes Reviewed Dev Portal patch Wrote up findings from research into writing for multilingual communication

2021-2022 Q4
Week 13: 2022-06-27 Published Q4 log to history page Reviewed two patches for the Dev Portal Wrote ITC responses for Q4 Reviewed product development playbook Participated in Dev Portal retrospective Out of office on Friday Week 12: 2022-06-20 Holiday on Monday, out sick on Thursday Prepared retrospective agenda, exercise board, and project timeline for KR1 Reviewed and updated patch for adding meta tags to Dev Portal, created a graphic to use in meta cards Created slides for Dev Portal presentation at tech department meeting Week 11: 2022-06-13 Finished productionizing the review template https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T310319 Final KR1 sync meeting Dev Portal launch! Post-launch support: Responding to feedback, reviewing patches Week 10: 2022-06-06 Worked on productionizing the review template https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T310319 Supported launch prep for Dev Portal Week 9: 2022-05-31 Held last KR1 sync meeting before launch, scheduled retro for the end of the month Wrapped up final changes for the Dev Portal Wrote up a starting doc for tech writers for next fiscal year Completed a key doc review Started work on productionizing the review template Week 8: 2022-05-23 Attended (virtual) Write the Docs conference Reviewed patches to support final stages of Dev Portal translation integration Added content strategy Dev Portal docs on mediawiki.org and organized pages Week 7: 2022-05-16 Fixed a typo in the footer of the API Portal and updated the docs Worked on key doc reviews to support KR1 Documented, reviewed, and updated styles in the Dev Portal Participated in the Wikimedia Hackathon, and presented ToolDocs (with live demo!) in the showcase Week 6: 2022-05-09 Finished preparing the Dev Portal for translation Participated in CommTech hackathon project to create Read the Docs for Toolforge Started on remaining Dev Portal tasks to do before launch Week 5: 2022-05-02 Analyzed Dev Portal user testing feedback and scoped changes to implement in the short term and long term Started implementing changes based on user testing feedback Facilitated KR1 check-in meeting Met with design research about user testing feedback analysis Week 4: 2022-04-25 Reviewed three patches for the Dev Portal Completed 3 user tests for the Dev Portal, took notes for another 3 tests https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1B7H52XR8MasV6I4eZJqYHzUdgMlPBvEJ3gi3Xbs3Pm0/edit#gid=0 Finished rtl test patch https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/784796 and pinged for review Resolved https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T306351 Updated the key docs spreadsheet to match the latest Dev Portal version Re-organized the doc review board Opened all tasks for new doc review process https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T306943 Analyzed user testing feedback https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hljp6XS8LOzMDGyWr_c-GozwcJ97swX8bwa3ctrKfQo/edit Week 3: 2022-04-18 Opened five patches for the Dev Portal https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/783877 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/783882 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/784344 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/784769 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/784796 KR1 task grooming and project management Reviewed two patches for the Dev Portal Ran one user test for the Dev Portal, processed screener participants, and took notes for another test Updated and merged https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/782466 Completed the prep of the Dev Portal prior to first round 4 user test Started testing the Dev Portal for right-to-left languages, opened bugs https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T306672 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T306670 Completed my ITC writeup Out of office on Friday Week 2: 2022-04-11 Interviewed two tech writer candidates and submitted feedback Reviewed two Dev Portal patches Opened seven patches for the Dev Portal https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/779576 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/779963 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/779972 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/780900 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/781094 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/782484 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/782785 Worked on T299078 and opened T306038 Practiced user testing process for the Dev Portal and worked on discussion guides Sent out invitations to user research pilot participants Opened experimental copy editing patch for the Dev Portal https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/782466 Week 1: 2022-04-04 Published weekly and quarterly summaries from Q3 to my history page Set up new format for work tracking in Q4 Worked on user research planning and screening surveys for Dev Portal user research Attended workshop on multilingual communication and Architecture community of practice meetup Responded to review feedback on https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/774550 Submitted patch to update contributing section of the Dev Portal https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/777441 Finalized questions for interview next week Opened small Dev Portal fixes to finalize new list of key docs https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/777485 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/777487 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/777829 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/777895 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/778592

2021-2022 Q3
Week 13: 2022-03-28 Held documentation office hours Submitted patch for update to Dev Portal content reuse journey and responded to review feedback Discussed next steps on Architecture Repository Copy editing for Wikifunctions Worked on patch for update to Dev Portal contribute journey Planned OKRs for KR1 for Q4 Added to the troubleshooting section of the Dev Portal docs on Wikitech Co-hosted Wikipedia editing party Week 12: 2022-03-21 Attended API platform strategy presentations Started https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:APaskulin_(WMF)/Translation_notes to capture my FAQ about working with translation markup Brainstormed questions for tech writer hiring Prepped and held sync meeting for KR1 the docs Graded several candidate writing samples Met up with Tricia for in-person coworking Worked on content reuse journey for Dev Portal Week 11: 2022-03-13 Reviewed patch https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/771365 Graded several candidate writing samples Project management support for Architecture Looked into some API details to answer a question https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Wq0cawgqbgsipr43 Worked on content reuse journey for Dev Portal Out on Friday Week 10: 2022-03-07 Updated the architecture office hours page on office wiki Opened https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/769133 Merged several open patches Responded to edits on API Portal Edits to maintenance script pages Reviewed https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/769582 Week 9: 2022-02-28 Out on Thursday and Friday Updated https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/764823 based on review feedback Opened Dev Portal content fixes https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/767261 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/76726 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/767564 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/767904 and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/767260 Week 8: 2022-02-22 Holiday on Monday Tested API Portal bug from https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T283555 Opened https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T302349 for API Portal bug Opened https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/764823 for update to Dev Portal tools content Reviewed docs and communications for Project Pralekhan Met with Karolin to discuss documentation Week 7: 2022-02-14 Opened https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/762555 and updated based on comments Reviewed work for Project Pralekhan and attended check-in meeting Built a prototype to export document descriptions in the Dev Portal to a spreadsheet via JSON—>CSV Reviewed community of practice document from Tricia Week 6: 2022-02-07 Continued work on reviewing “Build a tool” user journey for developer portal Check-in meeting with Project Pralekhan Prototyped a change that allows the Dev Portal to render content on a per-document basis Attended API platform code jam, design jam, and backlog grooming Continued to maintain work management process and artifacts for Architecture Team Reviewed quarter-in-review deck and topics for community of practice meetups with Architecture Team Prepped for and attended KR1 the docs sync meeting Week 5: 2022-02-02 Reviewed and merged https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/758969 Opened https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/758572 Edited communications for architecture Co-hosted documentation office hours Met with Nikki to revise approach to API catalog sandboxes Met with Seve about work handoff Continued work on reviewing “Build a tool” user journey for developer portal Set up Phabricator workboard and check-in notes doc for Architecture Team as a lightweight work management process Week 4: 2022-01-24 Checked in with Jay on Project Pralekhan grant and followed up with grant admins on approving midpoint report Prepped agenda for and attended KR1 the docs sync meeting Attended API platform code jam sessions Worked on reviewing “Build a tool” user journey for developer portal Attended design research office hours to inform work on dev portal user research Started work on getting all sandboxes to work in the API catalog and opened https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/research/mwaddlink/+/757988 Updated the tech docs team pitch desk with new team structure proposal Week 3: 2022-01-17 Holiday on Monday Held documentation office hours (no participants) Merged https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/753587 Gathered strategy links for Tricia and I to start working on our docs strategy for next fiscal year Opened Dev portal patches https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/755014 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/755045 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/755498 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/755828 Created https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_Portal Opened DevPortal tasks https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T299452 Worked on review of DevPortal content Held user testing session during KR1 design jam Tried to get a better link color for dark mode in the DevPortal Week 2: 2022-01-10 Process iteration: Created “Discuss” column on Key Docs workboard Finished API catalog docs based on recent work https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/API_catalog Opened https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/nikkin/backstage/-/merge_requests/5 to fix up a property in the catalog definition files Prepped agenda for KR1: The docs sync meeting Adjusted KR1: The docs project plan to account for Sarah R’s departure from WMF Reviewed and merged dev portal patches https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/753096/ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/753171 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/753170 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/753173 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/753587 Resolved several dev portal tasks following patch merges from the last few weeks Created a dev portal logo Reviewed, updated, and merged https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/749790 Opened dev portal tasks https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T299000 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T299003 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T299078 Opened dev portal patches https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/753176 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/753562 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/753578 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/754014 Week 1: 2022-01-03 Out Monday and Tuesday Worked on Sarah R handoff Updated Tech Docs team deck with new staff and org structure Published Q2 log to history page on Meta Completed Q2 ITC Wrote up matrixing retro for Q2 and plans for Q3 Created professional development OKR in Betterworks Cleared out desktop Responded to Sarah’s goodbye email Provided feedback on architecture roadmap diagram Reviewed and merged dev portal patches (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/749573 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/747214 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/748322) and opened https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T298741 to track build failure

2021-2022 Q2
Q2 Week 12: 2021-12-20 Co-hosted documentation office hours Completed review of development guidelines landing page Reviewed developer portal patches Updated API catalog merge request Out half day Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday Collected feedback on Architecture overview presentation Q2 Week 11: 2021-12-13 Submitted PR to add APIs to the Backstage API catalog https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/nikkin/backstage/-/merge_requests/3 and responded to review comments Started review and updates to Dev Guidelines landing page Prepped agenda for and led KR1: The Docs check-in meeting Led meeting to define KR1 OKRs for Q3 Worked on Architecture execute overview presentation Q2 Week 10: 2021-12-06 Updated https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/mediawiki-config/+/649942 to try and get it resolved Attended domain modeling exercise with product and tech execs Started review of development guidelines landing page and decision record for process update Added myself to Gerrit/Reviewers Did my first review and +2 for the new developer portal repo in Gerrit Responded to comments on the dev portal v4 doc Participated in architecture team planning Held regular sync with Jay for Project Pralekhan Groomed tasks for API Portal UI improvements Helped run KR1 the doc design jam Started work on adding APIs to the Backstage API catalog Q2 Week 9: 2021-11-29 Getting back into the swing of things after the holiday break Completed updates to Technical Community Newsletter landing page Prepped agenda for and ran KR1 the docs sync meeting Created a first draft for the API catalog docs https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Alex_Paskulin/API_catalog Completed updates to technical decision making pages, including creating a navigation template Wrote up more details for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271765 Updated API Portal docs Reviewed Dev Portal v4 outline Q2 Week 8: 2021-11-22 Cleared out 600+ emails in my inbox :) Worked on request form for Tech Docs Team Worked on updating technical decision forum docs Out Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday Q2 Week 7: 2021-11-15 Met with Jay to check in on Project Pralekhan grant Prepped agenda for KR1: The docs check-in meeting Met with maintainer for technical newsletter docs Worked on proposal for Tech Docs Team Worked on updates to decision making process docs Completed card sorting exercise for Dev Portal user journeys Completed RACI model for decision to update process for development policies https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fg5p9pA8tLnDzZpNSxuARAMrFaV6H2QMs16mrd7KYgk/edit#heading=h.5dj1zwou4ckc Q2 Week 6: 2021-11-08 Reviewed and merged PR to the Dev Portal draft site Created a mural for the Dev Portal mkdocs stack explaining how it work and showing a few options for navigation and design https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lkldIfg=/ Create a stack comparison doc for the Developer Portal https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xU-59K9GoyUx8UlAr1IAZcT9ppTJDQQ7d2S7EUgnv90/edit# Created spreadsheet for office hours rotations https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1w9VAbI3uAE5s_18eyzFYh5EJomJtjgzj9LEMlo00x4E/edit#gid=0 Continued to work on proposal for decision forum docs https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:APaskulin_(WMF)/Sandbox/Decisions Started review of technical newsletter key doc and created a sandbox page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:APaskulin_(WMF)/Sandbox/Newsletter https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T293784 Created v3 of the Dev Portal draft site with a single-column layout and archived v2 to history https://github.com/apaskulin/wmf-dev-portal-draft/pull/6 Met with maintainer of decision forum docs to review proposed changes Q2 Week 5: 2021-11-01 Continued professional development hours for this quarter https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:APaskulin_(WMF)/Research Worked on review of decision forum docs Prep for KR1 the docs status meeting Created a quick and messy prototype of cross-wiki docs search https://public-paws.wmcloud.org/User:APaskulin_(WMF)/Docs%20search.ipynb Worked on docs team proposal Worked on proposal for decision forum docs https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:APaskulin_(WMF)/Sandbox/Decisions and reached out to maintainer Reviewed feedback on decision about dev policies Reached out to Matt for design review on Dev Portal Q2 Week 4: 2021-10-25 Built out multi-page version of the Developer Portal Worked on Enterprise docs strategy and shared with MWE PM Ran design jam to review multi-page version of Dev Portal Created a wikitext version of the API catalog https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/API_catalog Started working on my professional development hours for this quarter https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:APaskulin_(WMF)/Research Presented docs team proposal to eng VP Participated in architecture team planning Participated in API platform design jam Q2 Week 3: 2021-10-18 Attended knowledge sharing session about OpenAPI with RESTBase developers Provided feedback on data model for Developer Portal https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T276708 Ran KR1: The docs check-in meeting Created a multi-page version of the Developer Portal draft Opened tasks for all key docs to be reviewed Attended API Platform design jam Worked on the architecture team glossary Conducted a user test of the Developer Portal Worked on review of cloud services introduction Created a proposal for a technical documentation team at WMF Q2 Week 2: 2021-10-11 Assisted handoff of Developer Portal user testing from design research to content team Co-hosted documentation office hours Finalized edits for Wikimedia Enterprise documentation and copy Added a list of key landing pages to the DevPortal page on mediawiki.org Participated in architecture team planning and DDD coaching Got promoted to staff technical writer! Completed a review of key doc for cloud services https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T292811 Iterated on doc review process Added a column for collections on the key docs spreadsheet Q2 Week 1: 2021-10-04 Set up work tracking spreadsheet for Q2 Filled out retrospective on percentages of time dedicated to specific projects in Q1 Met with developer experience product management to clarify design research scope for developer portal Hosted Q2 kickoff meeting for “KR1: The docs” team Onboarded new technical writer onto “KR1: The docs” and Wikimedia docs in general Reviewed https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project_Pralekhan and made a few corrections to updated pages Collected feedback on key docs and dev portal work Wrote my ITC and published my logs for the quarter Updated the key docs review template https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation/Review_template Worked on Wikimedia Enterprise documentation edits and strategy

2021-2022 Q1
Q1 Week 13: 2021-09-27 Out of office on Friday Created a simpler deploy process for the Developer Portal draft site Attended the API Specification Conference and posted notes to a collaborative Slack channel Finalized review process and accuracy criteria for KR1: The docs https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation/Review_process Wrote up strategy for combining review process, list of priority collections, and developer portal https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yHk_0AFj4vtwTk570T71lfDOTCdGr09z1pkH0h1pf_k/edit# Posted end-of-quarter celebrations for the “KR1: The docs” team in Slack Q1 Week 12: 2021-09-20 Implemented an initial layout in the Developer Portal prototype https://github.com/apaskulin/wmf-dev-portal-draft/pull/2 Attended consultation corner presentation on decision by committee Met with Wikimedia Enterprise to schedule support for docs Set up past versions in the Developer Portal prototype https://github.com/apaskulin/wmf-dev-portal-draft/pull/4 Published https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation/Style_guide/Style_checklist to resolve https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T287301 Published https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation/Review_process Q1 Week 11: 2021-09-13 Co-hosted documentation office hours Collaborated on Developer Portal content strategy Verified and resolved https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T290350 Started formal draft of new API Portal content strategy https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jmvm0braxcukj_iPA2MiaZAXrRqCgQB8l_agmopl6Fo/edit Started draft of Dev Portal content strategy overview https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xjb2PnbLe98j_MQJObLiKwMMqVddtnCn9874K3LXcUc/edit# Created v2 of the list of key docs https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aVjBjTb-_hi7ZyyKUi5VxSbKbrOjST6wauYn8ejepWI/edit#gid=1538653388 Created a Developer Portal mockup in Miro Worked on docs accuracy criteria Q1 Week 10: 2021-09-06 Holiday on Monday Met with design researcher for Developer Portal Project management for KR1 The Docs Worked on accuracy criteria for KR1 The Docs Ran a design jam session for automating API reference docs with the API Platform team Updated content to support WME team https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:API_comparison Created https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Web_APIs_hub/API_index to serve as a temporary API catalog Opened https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T290762 Q1 Week 9: 2021-08-30 Voted in WMF board election Participated in round-up discussion for hiring a new tech writer Collaborated on architecture narratives and patterns document Ran a user test of the architecture narratives and patterns document Co-hosted documentation office hours Collaborated with Andre on Developer Portal investigation and accuracy criteria Participated in API platform design jam Got feedback on API Portal content strategy principles and capabilities Participated in architecture team sprint rituals Followed up on translated template issue from office hours Updated Notifications API docs and sent a followup email Worked on accuracy criteria for general docs and overviews https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:APaskulin_(WMF)/Key_docs/Overview/Test Opened https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaApiPortalOAuth/+/717613/ Updated API Portal docs https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=API_Portal&type=revision&diff=1924188&oldid=1923343 Q1 Week 8: 2021-08-23 Completed work on user scenario exercises for the Developer Portal Worked on overview template prototype https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:APaskulin_(WMF)/Key_docs/Overview Participated in architecture team backlog grooming Project management for KR1 the docs Interviewed a candidate for the tech writing position Collaborated with Andre on the technical investigation for the Developer Portal Worked on the new content strategy for the API Portal and commented with initial stub on T289183 Shared vision for “wikidata for docs” at the API Platform design jam Collaborated on architecture narratives and patterns Opened https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T289877 Q1 Week 7: 2021-08-16 Edited Architecture/Product strategy narratives doc Paired on replicating API Portal bug Reviewed OAuth diagram Worked on accuracy criteria for technical topic overviews Created collage of navigation elements used on technical topic overviews https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_l2ZgrUs=/ Held documentation office hours Interviewed two candidates for the technical writer position Conducted a user research session for the architecture repository Participated in an API Platform design jam, commented on T288126, and opened T289183 Participated in architecture team sprint rituals Worked on new API Portal scope and strategy Supported knowledge sharing on the API Platform team Experimented with Avrodoc https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:APaskulin_(WMF)/Avrodoc Conducted a user scenario exercise for the Developer Portal Created a mockup for an overview template Q1 Week 6: 2021-08-09 Out of office Monday-Thursday Co-hosted session about Developer Portal at the Wikimania Hackathon Co-hosted session about Developer Portal at the Wikimania Unconference Paired with Sarah R on analyzing use of categories for key docs using Python https://public-paws.wmcloud.org/User:APaskulin_(WMF)/Category%20analysis%20on%20key%20technical%20docs%20for%20Developer%20Portal.ipynb KR1 the docs project management Q1 Week 5: 2021-08-02 Out of office Q1 Week 4: 2021-07-26 Out of office Thursday-Friday Registered for API Specifications conference and submitted expense report Met with Andre to collaborate on the Dev Portal Edited draft of architecture narratives Attended two API Platform team kickoff meetings Commented on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T283277 to try to move things forward Opened https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T287415 for the MediaWiki API integration testing library Attended sprint planning for architecture team Signed up for the Wikimania hackathon Opened https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T287422 for the Developer Portal Worked on content types for Key Docs Updates Led sync meeting for KR1 the docs Collaborated on dev portal content strategy Completed anti-harassment training Did my Q4 ITC Provided feedback on user personas for the Dev Portal Attended security training Attended ERC results session Q1 Week 3: 2021-07-19 Deployed dev portal content prototype to GitHub pages with automated script and basic instructions Set up Sarah R as a contributor to the Dev Portal draft Participated in four days of architecture team offsite Finished initial mapping of content types for key docs Project management for KR1 the docs, including updating OKRs in Betterworks Q1 Week 2: 2021-07-12 Migrated to Libera Chat from Freenode Registered for Wikimania 2021 Ran check-in meeting for KR1 team Held a sync meeting for dev portal content strategy and key docs accuracy criteria Planned architecture team offsite for next week Prepared sessions to lead the the architecture team offsite next week Worked on key docs content types Spun up a dev portal content prototype Attended DDD workshop with architecture team Attended Phoenix books demo with architecture team Attended All Staff and Tech All meetings Attended kickoff for hiring new tech writer Q1 Week 1: 2021-07-05 Out of office

2020-2021 Q4
Q4 Week 13: 2021-06-28 Created a tracking spreadsheet for key docs https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T285790 Opened T285814, T286082, T286085, T286086, T286087 Resolved T285336 Prepped agenda for KR1 the docs meeting in two weeks Helped onboard new team member to the Architecture team Attended Effective and Responsible Communication working group sessions Published Q4 history on Meta Updated OKRs in Betterworks Q4 Week 12: 2021-06-21 Left comments on Okapi schema doc Ran first regular KR1 the docs sync meeting Opened T285336 Finished work on Okapi data model schema Q4 Week 11: 2021-06-14 Out of office on Friday WMF All Hands Tuesday - Thursday Worked on data model schema Q4 Week 10: 2021-06-07 Replied to email from grantee Jay for new documentation grant Participated in sprint planning and backlog grooming Watched All Hands and Tech All videos from last week Kicked off Dev Portal and Key Docs Updates projects with Developer Advocacy Consulted the Technical Decision Chairs about update process for development policies Planned team offsite Co-hosted documentation office hours Worked on adding properties to the knowledge store data model based on feedback from Okapi team Tested and closed https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T282259 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268791 Opened https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T284621 Fixed typo on JavaScript examples in API Portal as followup to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T283899 Reached inbox-zero after returning from vacation Reviewed patches to add jsdoc to the api-testing repo, opened a task to document the process Collected onboarding documentation for Dana Q4 Week 9: 2021-05-31 Out of office Q4 Week 8: 2021-05-24 Completed ITC survey Opened https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T283552, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T283555, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T283899, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T283896, and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T283889 Worked on data model for citations https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lDS7y_o=/?moveToWidget=3074457359124330605&cot=14 Co-hosted documentation office hours Left a comment about Cobra docs generator https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T282339#7112227 Drafted project plan and ideas for dev portal and key docs update projects Created https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_Repository/About/Template/Initiative Out of office on Friday Q4 Week 7: 2021-05-17 Participated in hiring decision conversations Published https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community/Add_your_API Updated https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/API_Gateway#How_to_design_your_API with rate limit information and formatting updates Published https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_Repository/Strategy/Goals_and_initiatives/Phoenix_books Updated OKRs Participated in Phoenix books sprint planning Reviewed overview for monthly strategic architecture meeting Responded to feedback on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281499#7094087 Worked on data model for citations https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lDS7y_o=/?moveToWidget=3074457359124330605&cot=14 Opened https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T283277 and filled out decision overview doc Participated in Wikimedia Hackathon 2021 Q4 Week 6: 2021-05-10 Published data model on wiki https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_Repository/Systems/Data_models/Knowledge_store Provided feedback and copy editing for OKRs Interviewed a candidate for the new architect position Created https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_Repository/Components/Knowledge_store Out of office Thursday and Friday Q4 Week 5: 2021-05-03 Conducted two interviews for the new architect position Responded to comments on API docs proposal Prepped event storming spike for demo https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SbXabqlLDD0MGw22eXZljPOEpsnQkhoLq5pZ6xIGrrc/edit Worked on a definition of “architecture” https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c-HQEpTNDwhv8BeKwZ6fu1CqqeEnkrk5uyccAdQkG0s/edit Provided feedback on a grant proposal Opened T282263 and T282259 Got really excited about the potential for Toolhub and docs Experimented with a two-column doc layout in MediaWiki https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:APaskulin_(WMF)/Two_column_experiment Q4 Week 4: 2021-04-26 Attended Write the Docs conference https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uOUzU0KWlC5ljjaeZsWm_sUSkRZBVNpoY9mCheXerjI/edit Ran a mini docs editathon at the Write the Docs conference writing day https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zjYgeb3Q-aypt7wyBJack9gaACKl24WAMsXvVHe3Rtc/edit Advised Wikimedia Enterprise about starting their docs effort Worked on canonical data model Held documentation office hours Worked with Wikimedia Enterprise on their data model https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281499#7050279 Q4 Week 3: 2021-04-19 Added status fields to documents in the Architecture Repository https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_Repository/About#Status Created https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_Repository/About Created https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_Repository/Systems/System_models/Evolving_towards_a_target_architecture and added images to other parts of the Architecture Repository Created a script to list page statuses automatically https://public-paws.wmcloud.org/User:APaskulin_(WMF)/Architecture/Page-status-lister.ipynb Added category to the Architecture Repository https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Architecture_Repository_orientation Added create page buttons to the Architecture Repository https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_Repository/About#Creating_a_page Created a test for language support documentation for link recommendations https://public-paws.wmcloud.org/User:APaskulin_(WMF)/Link-recommendations-language-support-test.ipynb Participated in an event storming session for references Worked on a template for event storming https://app.mural.co/t/neweditorexperiences1471/m/neweditorexperiences1471/1619038065141/835287a20fec335cb8f359c4700b468025bf43ae https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SbXabqlLDD0MGw22eXZljPOEpsnQkhoLq5pZ6xIGrrc/edit Worked on developing canonical data model https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w68NJcx4bgrvUu1A22fh-iwEZZD7JNlr0_i5wdkA-0s/edit Advised on Abstract Wiki architecture docs https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_Repository/Strategy/Goals_and_initiatives/Abstract_Wikipedia_Architecture Out of office on Thursday Q4 Week 2: 2021-04-12 Out of office on Monday Created a worksheet and worked on developing canonical data model https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w68NJcx4bgrvUu1A22fh-iwEZZD7JNlr0_i5wdkA-0s/edit Met with Wikimedia Enterprise team about API Portal Held documentation office hours Responded to feedback on API gateway acceptance criteria and shared with PM https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A3hzbFeIMpnWN0FQTnbFw3uF2uauXHJ22of3eVEB1-4/edit?ts=60756b04# Got Toolhub running locally Drafted an initial version of https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:APaskulin_(WMF)/Sandbox/API_process Met with API product manager and platform director to get support for API reference docs project Conducted ITC with manager Out sick on Friday Q4 Week 1: 2021-04-05 Out of office on Monday Drafted interview questions for new architect position Reviewed GSoD communications with Sarah R. and updated relevant wiki pages, including creating https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Season_of_Docs/Past_projects Did a final edit of and shared out API docs proposal https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DSVIGap0eCdrYEsFtyZNLld3jkvk04Tz4Nlhs9rdl1I/edit# Published Q3 history on Meta Completed ITC questions Completed responsible and effective communication survey Updated https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Decision_Making_Process Completed and shared first draft of API Gateway acceptance criteria https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A3hzbFeIMpnWN0FQTnbFw3uF2uauXHJ22of3eVEB1-4/edit# Investigated tooling for canonical data model doc https://app.graphqleditor.com/wmf-arch/canonical-data-model?v=latest Cleaned up my notes Entered OKRs into Betterworks Started experimentation with VuePress https://github.com/apaskulin/wmf-system-docs

2020-2021 Q3
Q3 Week 13: 2021-03-29 Added https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/API_reference/Service/Link_recommendation/Get_link_recommendations_for_revision Recruiting training Reviewed Phoenix email for product and tech Reviewed early Okapi endpoint descriptions Participated in Dev Portal review Worked on API docs proposal Q3 Week 12: 2021-03-22 Reviewed Sarah R’s talk for WTD Merged https://github.com/wikimedia/phoenix/pull/118 Worked on API docs proposal Opened https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278463 Q3 Week 11: 2021-03-15 Updated https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_Repository/Strategy/Goals_and_initiatives/Structured_content_proof_of_value with new content, links, diagram, and edits Architecture modeling, OKR planning, sprint planning, synchronous work Added docs for https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Last_updated Opened and merged https://github.com/wikimedia/phoenix/pull/117 Opened https://github.com/wikimedia/phoenix/pull/118 Started API docs proposal Q3 Week 10: 2021-03-08 Reviewed architecture repository prototype with Diana Responded to feedback on team communication process doc Built out architecture repository on mediawiki.org based on prototype Provided feedback on developer portal project, shared 18F design card resources as tools for next steps Created https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Node but didn’t end up using it Applied for admin permissions on mediawiki.org Created https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Last_updated Q3 Week 9: 2021-03-01 Got help from Cindy on how to do “children display” in MediaWiki Reviewed job posting for new team role Wrote too much on the Product Platform Strategy Feedback Completed and shared API Portal product roadmap handoff doc https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ORxzIFXZkwR68Qv7LnhBNvU1mIXXnxrrhwfkDRoV7qE/edit OAuth tech support Completed draft of team communications process Got Phoenix PR merged https://github.com/wikimedia/phoenix/pull/104 Met with Seve about spec-driven development for APIs Q3 Week 8: 2021-02-22 Met with API Portal management (x3) and added draft banners to WIP pages Reviewed PAWS API tutorial Submitted PR to add intro content to Phoenix demo https://github.com/wikimedia/phoenix/pull/104 Got SSH set up for GitHub Worked on roadmap handoff doc for API Portal https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ORxzIFXZkwR68Qv7LnhBNvU1mIXXnxrrhwfkDRoV7qE/edit Worked on a page design for the architecture repository on mediawiki.org https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:APaskulin_(WMF)/Architecture_repository Worked on a solution for a clickable model for the architecture repository on mediawiki.org https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:APaskulin_(WMF)/Clickable_model_experiment Participated in Wikidata editing event storming session with the architecture team and WMDE Q3 Week 7: 2021-02-15 Drafted https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:APaskulin_(WMF)/How_to_respond_to_docs_feedback Reviewed 662692 Figured out how to get API Portal pageview stats through Turnilo Held internal documentation office hours Updated OKRs Tested embedding Lucidchart in Phoenix demo Experimented with Vuepress Researched replicating Confluence children pages feature in MediaWiki (https://app.asana.com/0/1161243145839649/1199893124602427/f) Tried (and failed) to get dociql to work Q3 Week 6: 2021-02-08 Attended API strategy meeting to kickoff product management handover of the API Portal A volunteer made a minor-but-still-awesome edit to the API Portal :happy-tears: Reviewed change to maturity model page on mediawiki.org and made a small continuity update Reviewed doc planning wishlist with Wikimedia Dev Advocacy Set up review of API Platform announcements with new management Patch author scheduled 649942 for deployment, yay! Noting for future reference: this was three weeks from nudge to response, which seems pretty fair. Following the deployment of T272665, completed final tests and resolved T268257, signifying the true completion of the API Portal MVP! And the end of the project management work. Tried to deal with syntax highlighting bug, opened https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274474, which was resolved almost immediately Worked on intro text for structured content prototype and experimented with Vuetify Q3 Week 5: 2021-02-01 Opened 661167 to resolve config change requested in T270178. Researched process for getting beta config changes deployed. Turns out that even beta-only config changes should follow the deploy process so there are no undeployed commits waiting for the next person Worked on API Portal blog post and public announcements Worked on architecture repository planning and modeling Brainstormed outline for Phoenix demo Worked on homepage content for API Portal Tracked deployment schedule for API Portal bug fixes as part of the latest MediaWiki version Opened 661146 to resolve issue with API Portal extension version Synced with Eng Mgmt about the future of the API Portal Q3 Week 4: 2021-01-25 657925 reviewed and merged Reviewed 658585 Held two-day tech docs offsite with Sarah R. 657898 reviewed, merged, and verified Opened T273326 OKR planning for architecture team API Portal project management Updated API Portal internal docs Q3 Week 3: 2021-01-19 Holiday on Monday Granted editing permissions to a community member on the API Portal Created and uploaded https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Programming_icon_flat_circle.svg Worked on API Portal use case pages Commented on T270308 to try and move it forward Added use case pages to the API Portal to complete T250304 Added some content to the API Portal continuity doc https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=API_Portal&type=revision&diff=1894722&oldid=1893071 Input OKRs into Betterworks API Portal project management Passed 5/7 cases for T268257 End-to-end testing for API Gateway, API Portal, and OAuth and opened T272665 for failing cases Opened 657898 for T271285 Links in "Create API key" dialog should open in a new tab Connected my local API Portal to my local OAuth extension, so I’m able to test viewing clients in the API Portal Opened 657925 for T272660 Hide redirect URL for owner-only clients Q3 Week 2: 2021-01-11 Realized that the work of opening tasks for the API Portal is ongoing Tested ability to get API Portal pageview metrics via API (https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/pageviews/per-article/api.wikimedia.org/all-access/all-agents/Main_Page/daily/20201201/20210101) Published API Portal workflow process on wikitech https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/API_Portal#Workflow, on the Portal https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community/Contributing, and on Phabricator Wrote up some brief info for adding endpoints to the API Portal https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/API_Portal#Adding_an_endpoint Finished draft of OKRs and professional development goals Planned tech docs offsite Worked on plans for architecture repository Reached out to Dejan and resolved T265815 Reached out to Art to get his WIP for T258757 Officially became a MediaWiki OAuth extension developer with 655180 getting merged API Portal project management Individual tuning conversation and professional development discussion Q3 Week 1: 2021-01-04 Happy new year! 650792 was approved and merged Consolidated API Portal project management onto https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/api-portal/ and worked on moving todos from my notes to this board Published Q2 log to history page Worked on OKRs for this quarter Cleaned up notes Nice documentation office hours session. Realizing that about three people is the max for productive Q&A. Made sure all javascript examples in the API Portal have semicolons at the end of lines Provided tech support for OAuth and helped resolve T271078 :D Was finally able to link my GitHub and Gerrit users to get green squares for my contributions Reviewed 649766 Updated my local MediaWiki Docker environment to run Doxygen Got the OAuth extension to run locally and opened 655180

2020-2021 Q2
Q2 Week 1: 2020-10-05 Created a workboard for API Portal skin https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4822/ Worked on API Portal main page https://api.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&type=revision&diff=220&oldid=6 Gave a demo of the API Portal at Tech-all https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LzT0fD1rL0ROhCaKKc740snCXKgrNBCM/view?usp=sharing Reviewed templates created by Season of Docs participant https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?search=User%3AGbahdeyboh%2FGSoD20&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&advancedSearch-current=%7B%7D&ns0=1&ns12=1&ns100=1&ns102=1&ns104=1&ns106=1 API Portal project management, code review, and task validation Troubleshooting for API Portal bugs Opened patch with improvements for API Portal https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaApiPortalOAuth/+/632521 Fixed and closed T264202, T264628, and T262709 +2’d a one-line patch for the WikimediaApiPortalOAuth extension Added content to the heuristics page https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Heuristics&type=revision&diff=4161023&oldid=4129864 Q2 Week 2: 2020-10-12 Reviewed 633566, 630318, 633557, 633856, 633861, 634068, 631565, 634335, API Portal project management and task validation Fixed T265409 Remove blue border on page action buttons Opened T265495, T265507 Opened and abandoned https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/skins/WikimediaApiPortal/+/634081/ Edited GSoD work Used styles and templates to make API Portal reference docs easier to create and maintain, reducing the number of characters used on the page by 35% (endpoint) and 61% (object) https://api.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=API_reference%2FCore_API%2FSearch%2FSearch_pages&type=revision&diff=284&oldid=195. https://api.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=API_reference%2FCore_API%2FSearch%2FSearch_result_object&type=revision&diff=297&oldid=191. Added basic (without examples and cross-links) reference content to API Portal Holiday on Monday Q2 Week 3: 2020-10-19 Reviewed 634732 and 635300 API Portal project management and task validation Wild attempt to fix some CSS bugs 635093 Worked on some designs for project messaging https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Projects Troubleshooted getting DiscussionTools to work on API Portal Opened T266161,  T266160,  T266073 Opened a patch for T265815 Opened and got +2’d my first PHP patch, 635610 for T266161 Added a patchset to 635300 for CSS fixes Worked on capability modeling and process with architecture team Q2 Week 4: 2020-10-26 Reviewed 636130, 636158, and 637674 API Portal project management and task validation Closed T265366 with CSS fix Worked on displaying projects and languages in API Portal Participated in event storming workshop Participated in architecture planning Q2 Week 5: 2020-11-02 Created a deck for docs principles https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oV30xIEerLyERHj05VopyS47yOiWzXmI-7IrX7QAoLM/edit#slide=id.g15105b408d_0_287 Reviewed architecture artifact Reviewed 639281 Conducted first user test of API Portal and made updates Worked on API Portal content Opened T267449 Holiday on Tuesday Q2 Week 6: 2020-11-09 Figured out issue with text wrapping for code samples (requires word break property and inline block) Figured out issue with syntaxhighlight being limited to a number of lines Conducted API Portal user tests API Portal project management and task validation Reviewed 639281, 639946, and 639925 Updated API Portal extension docs https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Extension%3AWikimediaApiPortalOAuth&type=revision&diff=4227564&oldid=4224042 Opened patch for T267811 Holidays on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday Q2 Week 7: 2020-11-16 Reviewed 640699 API Portal project management and task validation Conducted API Portal user tests Tested OAuth flows and opened T267996 and T268169 Worked on API Portal launch plan and opened T268288 Wrote up end-to-end test cases for OAuth, API Gateway, and API Portal and opened T268257 Tried to mitigate context switching between content development and project management Completed https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/API_reference/Feed/Featured_content Improved tables on https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/API_reference/Feed GSoD review and mentoring Q2 Week 8: 2020-11-23 Reviewed 643280 Tested end-to-end OAuth and API Gateway workflows Conducted API Portal user tests Discovered that the API Gateway doesn’t support Api-User-Agent headers as required by the User Agent policy, opened T268791, and removed them from the API Portal reference docs examples Finished API reference docs for Core endpoint in the API Portal Updated the JavaScript examples in the API Portal reference to be more concise Holiday on Thursday and Friday Q2 Week 9: 2020-11-30 API Portal project management and task validation Google Season of Docs mentorship support and docs review Figured out that I can easily add supplemental text to form inputs on the Create Client form, but not easily add tooltips. I’m guessing this is because tooltips carry a style as a result of their implementation as part of the client details view. Reviewed 645062 Conducted API Portal user tests and an evaluation for compatibility with RTL languages Did a live demo of the API Portal at the All Staff meeting Participated in architecture modeling Opened 645537 for improvements to API key management interface in the API Portal Co-hosted a meetup of Wikimedia Friends of the Docs Q2 Week 10: 2020-12-07 Updated Extension:OAuth to reflect https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/644547 API Portal project management and task validation Worked on API Portal content Reviewed 647088 and 647234 Responded to feedback on updates to API Portal create API key flow Got back to zero unread messages in my email inbox :) Decided that without a “depicts” feature for searching Commons, searching for images of a particular subject via the API isn’t helpful as an example use case. Soft-launched the API Portal so that it is publicly visible prior to official launch next month Q2 Week 11: 2020-12-14 Updated and merged 645537 (user experience improvements for the API Portal key management interface) API Portal project management and task validation Started adding short description API endpoints to the API Portal Opened 650792 to fix short description API spec Worked on API Portal getting started pages Hosted API Portal project closeout celebration (slide deck) Participated in architecture modeling Published architecture event modeling to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_system_model#Edit_collections Q2 Week 12: 2020-12-21 Finished API Portal reference docs for page description endpoints Reviewed Manual:Parser_cache draft on mw.org Holidays Wednesday-Friday

2020-2021 Q1
Q1 Week 1: 2020-07-06 Vacation Q1 Week 2 2020-07-13 Reviewed recent updates to hooks.txt and updated wiki docs Reviewed patchsets for WikimediaApiPortalOAuth and OAuth extensions API Portal project management Imported ContentGrid and Colored Box templates to Wikitech Documented Template:ContentGrid on mediawiki.org Researched OAuth and security for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T253067 Updated REST API docs following configuration setting changes Reviewed https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/613155 Learned the hard way to assign myself to a patch as a reviewer if I want to make sure my review gets seen prior to merging Worked on word cloud tutorial https://paws-public.wmflabs.org/paws-public/User:APaskulin_(WMF)/word-cloud.ipynb Q1 Week 3: 2020-07-20 Opened tasks for the API Portal and MediaWiki REST API Co-hosted second meeting of Wikimedia Friends of the Docs and presented some favorite templates https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_technical_documentation:_Friends_of_the_Docs/Meetings/2020-07-21 Attended a virtual argumentation workshop through the Domain Driven Design group on Meetup Responded to comment on architecture maturity model Worked on content for API Portal Tested user contribution endpoints and drafted docs Worked on a draft of an architecture diagram for the API Gateway (https://app.diagrams.net/?state=%7B%22folderId%22:%220AMFQCwYg24uoUk9PVA%22,%22action%22:%22create%22,%22userId%22:%22115032417586964497221%22%7D#G1Rsa_McPTxyiq6ZoWqc5BFF8vOm_nxWiD) Task management for WikimediaApiPortalOAuth and WikimediaApiPortal Drafted individual tuning form Researched wikifeeds endpoints for API Gateway Q1 Week 4: 2020-07-27 Reviewed proposals for Google Season of Docs and submitted project selection Kicked off planning for participation in the Writing Day at the (virtual) Write the Docs conference in two weeks Project management support for the API Portal project Reviewed technical decision making process doc Updated Template:MediaWikiHook to support hooks with a single underscore in the name Continued researching wikifeeds API for API Gateway Submitted form for individual tuning conversation Drafted OKRs for this quarter Facilitation for TechCom Documentation consultation with OKAPI team Published initial draft of architecture docs Q1 Week 5: 2020-08-03 Worked on design validation for WikimediaApiPortal skin Completed permissions validation for API Portal on beta Reviewed structured content store docs Edited and published Indic workshop post on the Tech Blog https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2020/08/07/designing-technical-workshops-for-the-indic-community/ Project and task management for API Portal Worked on documenting security best practices for the API Portal Edited and sent user contributions API docs for review Helped teammates to write their OKRs Q1 Week 6: 2020-08-10 Write the Docs conference (Notes) Worked on design validation of WikimediaApiPortal skin Completed user contributions API docs Hosted Tech Talk https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Talks#Episode_6:_Retargeting_extensions_to_work_with_Parsoid Facilitation for TechCom Holiday on Friday Q1 Week 7: 2020-08-17 Completed design validation of WikimediaApiPortal skin https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T256793 Reviewed script for Phabricator instructional video Project management for the API Portal project Opened patches for T259953 and T260618 Announced the selected project for Google Season of Docs and kicked off community bonding phase Worked to define a set of closable tasks for each sprint ahead of time One year anniversary of working at WMF Learned about OAuth and started working on updates to OAuth extension docs Worked on user interface mockups for API Portal create and manage app views https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1FPUkNWjodNc4Y4yUCS4fk_EEx-dQKbM6rzYOHy7KXcs/edit and shared via https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T253067 Learned about Wikifeeds API Reviews for architecture team Q1 Week 8: 2020-08-24 Set up a MediaWikiDockerDev environment Opened patches for seven small fixes for the API Portal skin Architecture team offsite Learned about OAuth T260944 Worked on Wikifeeds API docs API Portal task validation Q1 Week 9: 2020-08-31 Reviewed patches 621611, 623142, 624910, 624906, 623622, and 623099 Did documentation updates for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259716 Opened patch for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260620 Discussed T260309 and T260311 with Cindy Worked on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259042 Addressed https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262062 Q1 Week 10: 2020-09-07 Holiday on Monday API Portal code review and product management Updated OAuth extension docs Created WikimediaApiPortal skin docs https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:WikimediaApiPortal Opened patch for API Portal T260306 Attended API Specifications Conference Sent project digest Q1 Week 11: 2020-09-14 API Portal project management Set up Echo and ULS in my local environment Published some minimal placeholder text to the prod portal main page Kicked off Google season of docs Implemented and verified footer for API Portal Blog post review API Portal code review and task validation Reviewed and resolved T261692, T260630, T259735, T258759 Developed styles for API reference in Portal https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/API_reference/Core_API/Search/Search_pages Completed https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255483 Learned about OAuth and bot policies Q1 Week 12: 2020-09-21 Worked on architecture team documentation Requested review for API Portal reference styles Worked on OAuth scopes for the API Portal Code review for API Portal Created Wikifeeds tutorial https://public-paws.wmcloud.org/User:APaskulin_(WMF)/Wikimedia-Feeds-API-Intro.ipynb Q1 Week 13: 2020-09-28 Troubleshooting with Cindy API Portal project management Fixed some CSS bugs in the Portal skin Opened patch for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260944 Acceptance testing for WikimediaApiPortalOAuth extension Drafted docs for new extension Troubleshooting extension bugs

2019-2020 Q4
Q4 Week 14: 2020-06-29 Worked on UX for the API Portal Project management for API Portal Published tutorial for MediaWiki REST API https://paws-public.wmflabs.org/paws-public/User:APaskulin_(WMF)/en-wikipedia-images.ipynb Facilitation for TechCom Holiday on Friday Q4 Week 13: 2020-06-22 Sent out second API Portal project digest Support for Google Season of Docs Published architecture maturity model Added page, file, and language endpoints to the MediaWiki REST API docs Experimental tutorials grid https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:APaskulin_(WMF)/Sandbox/Wikimedia_Tutorials Worked on UX for the API Portal Q4 Week 12: 2020-06-15 Worked on API Portal project plan Published https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:REST_API/Conditional_requests  First Friends of the Docs meeting Support for Google Season of Docs Q4 Week 11: 2020-06-08 Created presentation on Extension:Mermaid Information design for architecture maturity model wiki page Published code samples in Python, PHP, and JavaScript for core REST API reference docs  Worked on API Portal design Wrapped up this phase of hooks docs Support for Google Season of Docs Q4 Week 10: 2020-06-01 Worked on API Portal project plan Support for Google Season of Docs Published single page version of MediaWiki Core REST API docs Added search endpoints to MediaWiki Core REST API docs Facilitation for TechCom Updated Template:MediaWikiHook Worked on updates for Manual:Hooks Q4 Week 9: 2020-05-25 Holiday on Monday Interviewed for Between the Brackets podcast Support for new hook system Merged two patches for improvements to hooks docs on MediaWiki Doxygen Merged a patch correcting a typo on hook interface doc comments Support for Google Season of Docs Reviewed docs patches Worked on the MediaWiki Core REST API docs Q4 Week 8: 2020-05-18 Drafted doc plan for new hooks system Designed update for mediawikihook template Worked on the single-page design for the MediaWiki Core REST API docs Worked on API Portal workflows Crated API Gateway stakeholders group and sent out first API Portal project digest Support for Google Season of Docs Facilitation for TechCom Q4 Week 7: 2020-05-11 Kicked off Google Season of Docs as a co-admin for Wikimedia Worked on updates to API integration test docs Found my first bug Finished spec for API Portal create app flow Reviewed updates to the API Portal skin Worked on stakeholder communications for the API Portal Worked on API Portal workflows Worked on app management flow for API Portal Q4 Week 6: 2020-05-04 Facilitation for TechCom Created documentation plan for new hook system Worked on API Portal workflows Drafted updated template format for MediaWikiHooks Q4 Week 5: 2020-04-27 Finished single page version of MediaWiki REST API reference Continued support for API Portal project Facilitation for TechCom Continued support for API Portal project Data analysis for "Was this documentation helpful?" gadget Q4 Week 4: 2020-04-20 Worked on single page version of MediaWiki REST API reference Continued support for API Portal project Added API Portal design for page options Planned PHP and Python examples for MediaWiki REST API docs Out of office Wednesday-Friday Q4 Week 3: 2020-04-13 Completed hooks doc comment review patch Continued support for API Portal project Completed API Portal design review Demoed API Portal for CPT Q4 Week 2: 2020-04-06 Doc reviews for MediaWiki REST API Worked on hooks doc comment review patch Continued support for API Portal project Started work on Wikimedia docs metrics Worked on API Portal design review and updates Q4 Week 1: 2020-03-30 Continued support for API Portal project Worked on hooks doc comment review patch Drafted docs for three MediaWiki REST API endpoints Facilitation for TechCom

2019-2020 Q3
Q3 Week 13: 2020-03-23 Continued support for API Portal project Worked on API Portal design updates Worked on hooks doc comment review patch Q3 Week 12: 2020-03-16 Started hooks doc comment review patch Worked on MediaWiki REST API docs Experimented with apiDoc tool Worked on API Portal content Facilitation for TechCom Q3 Week 11: 2020-03-09 Responded to hooks docs task (phab:T246855) Requested review for latest batch of MediaWiki REST API docs Worked on API Portal design updates Holiday on Monday Q3 Week 10: 2020-03-02 Drafted and shared mw:Core_Platform_Team/Initiatives/API_Gateway/Documentation_Plan Tech docs virtual offsite Monday and Tuesday Facilitation for TechCom Q3 Week 9: 2020-02-24 Strategy docs for dev portal Drafted https://paws-public.wmflabs.org/paws-public/User:APaskulin_(WMF)/en-wikipedia-page-search.ipynb Created a script to generate a swagger spec skeleton from a list of endpoints https://paws-public.wmflabs.org/paws-public/User:APaskulin_(WMF)/swagger-gen.ipynb Reviewed docs for EventBus extension Facilitation for TechCom Q3 Week 8: 2020-02-17 Researched Wikimedia API change policies, and proposed changes to address phab:T244263. Drafted docs for conditional requests to the MediaWiki REST API. Requested review through mediawiki.org. Reviewed Core Platform team OKRs Attended remote presentation from Stack Overflow. Interesting to learn that they encourage volunteer-built bots but they discourage those bots making edits; they want edits to come from a person. Holiday on Friday Q3 Week 7: 2020-02-10 Participated in API gateway planning Read small wiki toolkits Worked on mw:APaskulin_(WMF)/OAuth_2.0_notes Facilitation for TechCom Q3 Week 6: 2020-02-03 Compiled mw:APaskulin_(WMF)/OAuth_2.0_notes Q3 Week 5: 2020-01-27 Wikimedia All Hands The movement strategy team handles translation by doing paid translations that are checked by volunteers. The (former) community engagement team is a great resource for docs support. The research team has regular contact with people who are using our content on their platforms, so they’re familiar with their use cases and experiences. Q3 Week 4: 2020-01-20 Migrated MediaWiki REST API history endpoints guide into PAWS http://paws-public.wmflabs.org/paws-public/User:APaskulin_(WMF)/en-wikipedia-page-history.ipynb Updated mw:API:REST_API/History with expandable organization Drafted docs for MediaWiki REST API page and media file endpoints Q3 Week 3: 2020-01-13 Drafted recommendations for onboarding working group Reviewed and updated API integration test docs following packaging Proof of concept for swagger-php mw:User:APaskulin (WMF)/Swagger annotations Q3 Week 2: 2020-01-06 Worked on re-doing dev portal content strategy and prototype content Joined Slack for green team standups (and goats channel) Learned that Swagger Codegen exports HTML -> dynamic-html: Swagger UI with CSS and JS files html2: Two-column layout with generated examples in eight programming languages and expandable schemas, no sandbox, no examples html: Single-column layout with examples, no sandbox Added HTML display to https://github.com/apaskulin/api-examples/blob/master/page-counts.ipynb Joined hiring working group. Met with Corey to discuss next steps for evaluating and improving the onboarding process. Drafted a summary of the state of onboarding docs. Q3 Week 1: 2019-12-30 Holidays Monday - Wednesday Read When Not to Comment: Questions and Tradeoffs with API Documentation for C++ Projects(https://andrewhead.info/assets/pdf/when-not-to-comment.pdf) "Robillard and DeLine interviewed and surveyed developers about learning obstacles, recommending that common obstacles could be avoided if the intent of an API is documented, code examples cover non-trivial use cases and best practices, and documentation helps developers find API elements for their tasks, understand relevant parts of APIs’ internal behavior, and avoids fragmentation" Researchers grouped developers questions into: "how to do something, what code does, why it is behaving the way it is, finding where something is, who did something, and when they did it" "Recent research has proposed tools for automatically improving documentation. Such tools synthesize code examples [6, 21], generate method [19, 35] and parameter descriptions [36], mine API usage patterns (e.g., [20, 40]), collect insightful sentences describing APIs [37], and identify improvable documentation [39, 41]." "Distrust of documentation could lead to unnecessary searches: S6 visited the implementation to check for unexpected behavior when “it was actually documented properly, but I didn’t believe it.” See also: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bjoern/papers/glassman-examplore-chi2018.pdf https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2337223.2337255

2019-2020 Q2
Week 19: 2019-12-23 Worked on dev portal content Holidays Tuesday - Friday Week 18: 2019-12-16 Reviews for Google Code-in Completed onboarding docs refresh Completed offsite survey Week 17: 2019-12-09 Reviews for Google Code-in Reviewed dev portal content strategy with Evan Team remote offsite https://github.com/apaskulin/api-examples/blob/master/page-history.ipynb Dev portal sync with Liz Week 16: 2019-12-02 Note that the nowiki tag are helpful for documenting things like translate tags. Completed open enrollment and surveys Reviewed patches for Google Code-In Helped Will create a comparison matrix for popular API spec formats Finished content strategy doc for dev portal, shared with Evan and Kate Reviewed service development proposal content from Eric (T239856) Note taking for TechCom Week 15: 2019-11-25 Moved https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87796 Add includes/filebackend/README as generated documentation page into done Note taking for TechCom Looked at tasks for upcoming Google Code In mentorship tasks Review for updates to the docs for the compare revisions endpoint and wikidfiff2 extension Updated REST API docs for history count limits Worked on content strategy for dev portal Added comments to the dev portal prototype Holidays on Thursday and Friday Week 14: 2019-11-18 Last week, I added a link to the API integration test docs from the mediawiki.org developer hub. The corrected syntax for a translated link with a description is: {{ll|MediaWiki_API_Integration_Tests|<translate>API integration tests</translate>}} – <translate> learn to write API integration tests for MediaWiki using Mocha.</translate> Note that <!--T:80--> tags are added automatically by marking the page for translation and shouldn't be added manually. Wiki page references: Template:Localized_link and Help:Extension:Translate/Page_translation_administration. In writing the above, I learned that translate tags are difficult to document because they're always picked up by MediaWiki, even within codeblocks. To bypass this, use a pre or a code tag and substitute the first angle bracket for &lt; The syntaxhighlight tag renders the text as-is without converting the character. Joined CPT subteam standups Note taking for TechCom Experimented with the NotebookViewer extension in my wikifarm. I tried to create a Notebook:Test page with some example content, but I got a fatal error when trying to preview or save the page. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120697 https://github.com/valgog/wmf/blob/master/clickstream/ipython/Wikipedia%20Clickstream%20-%20Getting%20Started-Extended.ipynb https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/extensions/NotebookViewer/+log/master https://nbformat.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html https://paws-public.wmflabs.org/paws-public/User:YuviPanda/replicahelper.ipynb?format=raw Finalized mw:API:REST_API/Extensions following excellent review feedback NotebookViewer update: Cindy helped me troubleshoot the extension. She installed the dependencies and upgraded MediaWiki to 1.33 to support the getText() function in the core TextContent class. This gave us a parser error coming from the extension instead of a fatal error. I tried a few approaches to troubleshoot the parser error. Hypothesis: The sample text is invalid. I tried several different sample texts with no success. Minifying the json didn’t work Hypothesis: nbconvert is being used incorrectly In this tutorial, they use nbformat to parse the notebook before loading it into nbconvert, which NotebookViewer isn't doing. Hypothesis: The text format being pulled out of MediaWiki isn’t correct. https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/php/classTextContent.html#a5c0865039740fb1cfb6385ec2342689e Updated docs for the compare revisions endpoint and wikidfiff2 extension. Looked for a page on English Wikipedia to use for examples without too many revisions. Agapanthus Looked for two revisions to compare on English Wikipedia with a good spread of example content but not too long: curl https://en.wikipedia.org/w/rest.php/v1/revision/9060718/compare/9284424 Week 13: 2019-11-11 Holiday on Monday Updates to API integration test docs Updated wiki page with REST API functionality Moved content from the README to the wiki page Updates to the REST API extension interface docs Added new example content from the example extension Met with Bill to review content Made updates based on review feedback Met with Dev Portal designer and provided new hierarchy and placeholder content Week 12: 2019-11-04 Updated Core REST API docs to reflect updates Opened https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/548313 to adjust MediaWiki Doxygen output Note taking for TechCom Request feedback through Betterworks Created a REST API template and chose mw:File:Database_-_The_Noun_Project.svg as the icon. Other considered icons: mw:File:Noun_project_organisation_symbol_1017384_cc.svg mw:File:Documents_icon_-_noun_project_5020.svg mw:File:Open_data_-_The_Noun_Project.svg mw:File:Metadata_-_The_Noun_Project.svg Week 11: 2019-10-28 Updated History API docs to reflect updates Updated https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikidiff2 for v1.9.0 Tried out the GitHub transclusion extension on the wikifarm Ported Wikimedia Network Architecture diagram from Mural to draw.io Worked with Bryan on the documentation-relation session for TechConf Experimented with Markdown output in MediaWiki Doxygen to fix bug created by https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/539439 Week 10: 2019-10-21 Core REST API docs followups Completing review for compare revisions endpoint Updates to delta and size properties Note taking for TechCom Updates for https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/539439 Portal content strategy Week 9: 2019-10-14 Core REST API docs followups Met with Toni about wikidiff2 format REST API extension interface draft: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:REST/Extensions Experimenting with an API doc template: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:REST/Extensions/Documentation_Template https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:RESTAPIEndpoint Worked on drafting OKRs Note taking for TechCom Holiday on Monday Week 8: 2019-10-07 Core REST API docs https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:REST https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:REST/History_API Note taking for TechCom Helping to onboard Nikki Cultural orientation module 2

2019-2020 Q1
Week 7: 2019-09-30 Created a template for the REST API docs: mw:User:APaskulin_(WMF)/API_Template Integration test docs Drafted examples and reviewed with Clara Published https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_API_Integration_Tests Opened https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/tools/api-testing/+/540952 Note taking for TechCom Week 6: 2019-09-23 Published https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/Facilitator%27s_Guide MediaWiki integration tests Reviewed doc needs for and opened https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T233737 Ran tests locally using MediaWiki Vagrant but couldn't get tests to pass. Opened https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T233976 Document REST API overview Opened https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T233977 Document REST API interface Note taking for TechCom Opened WIP patch for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87796 Opened typo fix patch for Doxygen mainpage https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/539543 Following up on Kask docs Opened patch with a few small README updates https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/services/kask/+/539573 Week 5: 2019-09-16 Code review: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/536742 Note taking for TechCom Met with Corey and Tim Local testing and task management for Doxygen Markdown project Documentation portal content audit Week 4: 2019-09-09 MediaWiki Doxygen docs: submitted https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/535684 (first patch merged 🎉) Met with Evan and Bill to review the REST API integration for MediaWiki extensions. Met with Evan to review and clarify personas, use cases, and technologies for the doc portal. Met with Andre AFK on Wednesday Week 3: 2019-09-02 Completed sample text for doc portal design prototype Wrote draft of docs user personas and reviewed with Sarah. See User:APaskulin (WMF)/Docs Personas. Met with Cindy and Nick Set up Gerrit and submitted (and abandoned) my first patch: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/docroot/+/534678 MediaWiki Doxygen docs Reviewed Timo's patch (post-merge) https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/534542 Met with Timo to set up local Doxygen server Mostly AFK on Wednesday Week 2: 2019-08-26 Made level 0 edits to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Kask. Worked on planning for docs portal Met with Daniel, Brad, Timo, Petr, and Sarah Week 1: 2019-08-19 First week at the Foundation! Set up my accounts and user pages Met with Kate, Evan, Bill, Will, and Eric Started content review notes Started doc portal notes Looking forward: Objectives Spread knowledge of how to use Wikimedia tools Support the Core Platform Team in documenting the MediaWiki platform and related services Practice plain, clear, effective, translatable Global English Learn about decentralized project organization