Major Documentation Oversight -- What is MDN?

[vwheeler63]

MDN URL

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/

What specific section or headline is this issue about?

Landing Page and About Page

What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?

This issue is about information that is MISSING.

Specifically, I am a 32-veteran software and firmware developer (new at web development), and wanted to learn some more details about CSS (psuedo-elements and psuedo-classes and anchor-positioning), and ran into the MDN website.

The first question I asked is:

• "What is MDN?"
• Then "What does M D and N stand for?"

This should be answered by the very first sentence readable on the page (or at least very near the top). (A positively great example of this is here, about CSS, which immediately answers both questions.) But it is not answered anywhere on the page, and it is also not answered in the About Page nor in the README document.

5 minutes later and I STILL had not found out what MDN stood for! (I guessed because of the similarity to "MSDN", but I still don't know if I guessed correctly, though I did find mention of the word "Developer" after the word "formerly" after I had dug far enough to find the GitHub hosting repository for the website's content.)

This is kind of a big oversight considering answering the question, "What is it?" is the first place a new reader goes mentally, because it answers for him/her, "Why could this website be valuable to me?".

The basic questions all documentation should answer IMMEDIATELY (especially when hosted on-line) are (because the reader wants to know "Is this the place I should be looking to answer my current question?"):

1. What is it?
2. What does it do?
3. Why does it exist?

in broad terms, in order to orient the new reader.

And I am very glad the content of this website is hosted on GitHub! Thank you for that!

What did you expect to see?

The answers to the above basic 3 questions.

Do you have any supporting links, references, or citations?

http://crystal-clear-research.com/code_documentation/

Do you have anything more you want to share?

Thank you for being here on GitHub! What a nice choice given that "many heads are better than one"! :-)

[Josh-Cena]

@mdn/core-yari-content