Re: Proposed Blog Post: still can't access

Hi, David-

Have you made a blog account?

Regards-
-Doug


On 4/23/13 2:34 AM, David R. Herz wrote:
> I am still in that group of people who can not access these
> previews.
>
> David R. Herz wpd@theherzes.com
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Doug Schepers
> [mailto:schepers@w3.org] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 9:24 AM To:
> Patrick D'Souza Cc: Eliot Graff; Julee; public-webplatform@w3.org;
> Alex Komoroske Subject: Re: Proposed Blog Post for MSDN JS
> Contribution
>
> Hi, folks-
>
> Sorry for another iteration... here's a (hopefully) final draft of
> the MSDN JS docs blog post, greatly improved by help from Eliot's
> skillful hand. (Thanks, Eliot!)
>
> We plan to publish this tomorrow at 15:00 UTC / 11:00 ET / 8:00 PT.
> That will give a bit of time to Europeans to absorb it.
>
> We'll tweet right then to point to it (and retweet from @w3c), and
> then repeat it a few hours later just before noon PT, to hit
> lunchtime on the West Coast, and hopefully some stewards will retweet
> it then.
>
>
> Tweet (proposed): [[ Want to help us integrate our new hoard of 400+
> JavaScript articles into Web Platform Docs? Read on!
> http://blog.webplatform.org/2013/04/new-msdn-js-docs/]] ]]
>
>
> Blog: http://blog.webplatform.org/?p=335&preview=true [[ New
> JavaScript Docs from MSDN!
>
> Apr 23 2013 by Shepazu Let’s face it, a site for Web documentation
> that doesn’t have solid JavaScript docs is like a browser that
> doesn’t have JavaScript. Up to now, the JavaScript topic on Web
> Platform Docs has been sparsely populated, especially our reference
> articles. That’s why we were so thrilled when Microsoft offered us
> their excellent JavaScript documentation from MSDN.
>
> These 400+ articles will give Web Platform Docs a foundation to build
> up a robust library describing the use of JavaScript in modern web
> development. The donation is substantial, but it leaves room for a
> expansion and enhancement from our community. But the first step is
> integrating these articles into WPD.
>
> So, this is where you come in!
>
>
> Help us transform the MSDN donation into WPD content
>
> Last week, Microsoft’s Kathy Shoesmith and her team exported the
> whole JavaScript branch of their MSDN content from their CMS as
> well-structured HTML; they also provided some support files,
> including a hierarchy index in XML, and an Excel file with the
> correspondence table between file names, like
> “1b512146-1e8a-44a4-89da-6cc5338d15cb.htm” (shudder), and article
> titles like “getMilliseconds Method (Date) (JavaScript)”.
>
> We converted that spreadsheet file to a JSON object, and used Node.js
> to rename all the files (e.g. “getMilliseconds-Method__Date.html”)
> and convert the XML hierarchy index to an HTML nested list to serve
> as a table of contents, then pushed everything to WebPlatform’s
> Github msdn-js repo.
>
> So, there’s where we are. Where we go next is up to the community as
> a whole, because Webplatform is a community-based and
> community-driven project. Microsoft donated the source content, but
> it will be the community that takes this donation and builds WPD with
> it. And let’s face it, content integration is not a trivial task.
> It’s not difficult, either, but there are lots of moving parts.
>
> First, we have to settle what on the URL structure. How do we want
> to organize the different pages within our information hierarchy, so
> that it’s consistent, easy to find and reference, and avoids naming
> clashes? Second, we have to make MediaWiki templates. We need to
> define how each page type (object, property, method, etc.) is
> structured, again for consistency and to make it easy for an API to
> extract just the information needed. Third, we have to come up with a
> methodology to convert the HTML content into the wiki. Converting
> 400+ pages by hand would be tedious, but an automated import script
> is likely to be error-prone, even with consistent and well-structured
> HTML like the export from MSDN. Which sections do we use? What do we
> do if we need to add structure that doesn’t exist in the original?
> How shall we review all the converted documents? Should we import
> first into our test wiki instance, then transfer into the main wiki?
> In some cases, there may be duplicates of content already in the
> wiki; how shall we resolve that? What import script should we use
> (and can we revise and reuse the script from our original MSDN
> mass-import back in October)? Phew! What can I do?
>
> For starters, you can help us answer these questions, and ask
> questions we didn’t think about. If you don’t already have an
> account, go create one, and feel free to participate in one or more
> of our general content meetings. You can volunteer to help do the
> conversion, review migrated content, or help out with other parts of
> the project. All our work is public, and to help manage this process,
> we created a special sub-project, MSDN-JS, in our issue
> tracker/project management tool. Once you have an account, subscribe
> to our public-webplatform mailing list and introduce yourself, and
> we’ll help get you started.
>
> JavaScript is still evolving (rapidly!), so WPD community engagement
> by JavaScript experts will help us evolve our content along with it.
> You want to future-proof our documentation by adding a tutorial and
> examples on JavaScript Futures? Go for it!
>
> Don’t feel intimidated by all these open questions! We’ve already got
> a skilled community, like Alex Komoroske (Google) who authored most
> of the site templates, Eliot Graff (Microsoft) who helped design
> WPD’s information architecture, and content drivers like Chris Mills
> (Opera and W3C), Julee Burdekin (Adobe), and Scott Rowe (Google), as
> well as many other folks who can lead the integration… or step aside
> to let new leaders take the initiative!
>
> What about other donations?
>
> We’ve gotten this type of donation before. We’ve received large
> transfers of content files from nearly all of our stewards. To cite
> a few examples, Google and MDN have donated many articles and
> tutorials; Opera donated a great deal of their developer education
> materials; Adobe offered wonderful content from their site; and
> Microsoft had donated reference pages previously. It’s been a
> wonderful and cooperative effort to get the seed content in place for
> this project.
>
> For each content topic, sometimes there are multiple sources that
> we’d like to use, with overlap in coverage. For example, MDN, the
> Mozilla Developer Network, already has great JavaScript
> documentation, and Mozilla is one of the Web Platform stewards. Why
> didn’t we just reuse their JavaScript content, too? As Mozilla’s
> Janet Swisher explains, that content was contributed to MDN under the
> CC-BY-SA (Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike) license, rather
> than the more permissive and reusable CC-BY license that WPD offers,
> so for the long-term goal of making and keeping WPD as open as
> possible, we needed another solution. Microsoft donating their
> content is an ideal starting point for comprehensive community-driven
> documentation. Having the option to select the best choices from
> different sources is another strength of WPD.
>
> You really need me?
>
> Yes. Even with big content contributions like this one from
> Microsoft, this site will never succeed in our mission without
> consistent contributions and engagement from our community. So,
> consider your effort in integrating these documents a “matching
> donation” and help us make WPD the documentation site we all need.
> ]]
>
>
> Regards- -Doug
>
>

Received on Thursday, 25 April 2013 06:38:21 UTC