Implementing Mediawiki as a documentation platform

Implementing Mediawiki as a documentation platform How Genesys uses Mediawiki šŸŽ™ Xavier Roy I work at Genesys as a Staff Technical Writer. My role involves writing, editing, and content engineering. /now interested in personal knowledge management, role-playing games, and neuroscience… What? This session covers how Genesys uses Mediawiki for developing and publishing complex enterprise-wide documentation. Mediawiki currently is the software that runs the world’s largest website, Wikipedia. How we chose Mediawiki?...

November 24, 2022
Personal Knowledge Management for writers

PKM for Writers (TWT)

A talk on how personal knowledge management benefits writers. Held for Tech Writer Tribe

September 24, 2022
Personal Knowledge Management for writers

PKM for Writers

personal knowledge management for writers šŸŽ™ Xavier Roy I work at Genesys as a Staff Technical Writer. Agenda Why? What? How? a day in a writer’s life How many sources of information are you exposed to throughout a normal work day? -Ā emails -Ā meetings -Ā calls -Ā conversations -Ā onlineĀ (interalĀ andĀ externalĀ sites) As writers, we deal with information in every part of our day. That knowledge can belong to:...

September 19, 2020

JAMstack for Writers

Hello everyone. And welcome to radix day 2020. I hoped you had enjoyed the first two presentations earlier today. an introduction to Hope that this ā€œintroduction to jamstackā€ session is as informative as the previous ones. I am Xavier. I work at Genesys as a Staff Technical Writer. I am Xavier and I work as a Staff Technical Writer at Genesys. You can find my user assistance blog at paperarrow....

September 11, 2020

JAMstack Primer

What is JAMstack? JAMstack Modern web development architecture based on client-side JavaScript, reusable APIs, and prebuilt Markup. JavaScript Any dynamic programming during the request/response cycle is handled by JavaScript, running entirely on the client. This could be any frontend framework like Vue.js, React, Angular, etc. or even vanilla JavaScript. APIs All server-side processes or database actions are abstracted into reusable APIs, accessed over HTTP with JavaScript. These can be custom-built or leverage third-party services....

December 7, 2019

Hugo Primer

Hugo Primer STC India Chennai Regional Conference August 31, 2019 I am Xavier. I work at Genesys as a Staff Technical Writer. @paperarrow šŸŽ™ļø An introduction to Hugo A live walkthrough to create a documentation site šŸ˜• What is Hugo? Hugo is a static site generator. A Static Site Generator (SSG) takes some text-based markup and generates a static website using some templates. Popular SSGs Jekyll Hugo Gatsby VuePress Eleventy and many more… You can find more SSGs at StaticGen....

August 15, 2019