MDN/MDN 2014 Archives

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Open a bug

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State OF MDN

Monthly report on what is happening on MDN - projects, metrics, SEO and other information

2014

2013

Team Meetings

  • MDN writer staff meetings are held biweekly. While these are employee-only meetings, the notes are published here afterward.
  • In-Person MDN staff meeting was held January 20 & @1 in the San Francisco office. While this was a paid-staff only meeting, the notes are published on the wiki and shared through email.

Project-specific docs meetings

MDN Projects

Current Projects

WebAPI Documentation

Learning Area

  • The MDN Learning Area project aims to build content and features dedicated to beginners by the end of 2014.

Badges

  • Proposal for Badges on MDN, being driven by Janet, Florian, Christie & Robert

Improving compatibility tables

GitHub Integration

  • Proposal for what GitHub integration might look like.

Proposed Projects

Personal Dashboard

  • Proposal to build a Personal dashboard on MDN; this is a customizable "home" page for users that provides key information about things they care about on MDN.

Metrics

Blackhole Integration

Working Sample Code

  • Proposal for JSFiddle-like sample code on every page that you can download, tweak, run "out of the box"

Social Features

Implement social features on the site to promote collaboration and community

Product versioning

Git backend for wiki

Page building blocks

  • Proposed building blocks for the page templates and building blocks project requirement.

Accessibility Review

  • proposed by teoli

Mobile/Tablet & Offline Experience for MDN

  • From community feedback during MDN redesign

Mozilla Hacks Localization

StackOverflow widgets

  • Proposal to add topical StackOverFlow widgets to MDN pages, proposed by by [[User:Robnyman|Robert Nyman] & Ali

Filtering UI for MDN Seach / "Command & Query"

Completed Projects

MDN Redesign

  • Large project aimed at rebranding & redesigning MDN to better serve developers as users and contributors.

Localization dashboard

Google Summer of Code

  • The Mozilla Developer Network team will be hosting a Google Summer of Code this summer. The project will center around building a Localization Dashboard to track localization status and help localizers find articles that need to be updated.
  • For more information, please see our Google Summer of Code 2013 page.

Development

The MDN wiki is on the Kuma platform that is based on django and was launched on August 3, 2012. There is ongoing development to improve the platform and developer/writer experience on the MDN.

Interested in our development plans, development process, and more? Please see the Development page.

User & Developer Resources

Archived Content

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