Re: [Wikitech-l] I'd love to contribue. Can anyone help me get started?

2016-05-18 Thread Jon Robson
Likewise if you want to help us do exciting stuff on wikipedia mobile web give me a shout on my email or via irc (irc.freenode.org #wikimedia-mobile) On 18 May 2016 3:40 p.m., "Brian Wolff" wrote: > On Wednesday, May 18, 2016, Ty Landercasper >

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'd love to contribue. Can anyone help me get started?

2016-05-18 Thread Brian Wolff
On Wednesday, May 18, 2016, Ty Landercasper wrote: > I'm a self employed programmer who's taking a bit of time off from his > current project as a way to gain some fresh perspective and I thought I'd > use that free time to help out a community I really

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'd love to contribue. Can anyone help me get started?

2016-05-18 Thread Stephen Niedzielski
If you're interested in Android, the Android team is interested in your contributions! We try to make a card for anything we work on in Phabricator. Our planning board is here[0]. Anything tagged Easy and unassigned is usually ripe to pick up. Here's a recent example[1]. Check out our getting

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'd love to contribue. Can anyone help me get started?

2016-05-18 Thread Ty Landercasper
Pine W gmail.com> writes: > > Hello Seattleite! There are some Wikimedians, many with technology > backrounds, who meet in the Seattle area. Please join our mailing list: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia > > I think that your existing skill set might fit well

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'd love to contribue. Can anyone help me get started?

2016-05-18 Thread Cyken Zeraux
If you're contributing to the Mediawiki framework, make sure you're learning the modern standards of PHP, along with how to make your PHP code HHVM and PHP7 compatable. One of the basic sites to get started on some concepts in PHP is: http://www.phptherightway.com/ Also you'l want to figure out

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'd love to contribue. Can anyone help me get started?

2016-05-18 Thread Pine W
Hello Seattleite! There are some Wikimedians, many with technology backrounds, who meet in the Seattle area. Please join our mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia I think that your existing skill set might fit well with WMF's interests in mobile apps and

[Wikitech-l] I'd love to contribue. Can anyone help me get started?

2016-05-18 Thread Ty Landercasper
I'm a self employed programmer who's taking a bit of time off from his current project as a way to gain some fresh perspective and I thought I'd use that free time to help out a community I really appreciate. Wikipedia is one of the best things the internet has to offer and it has