Thank you Aisha. I really look forward to contributing significantly to
this project ( Wikimedia)
Yes, I have used PAWS before and it was far easier for me.
Also, are there any areas of the codebase that you will recommend that I
start solving issues in, as I get more familiar with this tools?


On Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 5:40 PM Aisha Khatun <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Tambe,
>
> First of all, welcome to Wikimedia. If you are having trouble using
> Toolforge you can ask about your specific issue, the good thing about
> toolforge is that you can run long jobs (often required when working with
> large data) in grid
> <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Grid>. Otherwise, you
> can consider using PAWS <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/PAWS> which
> is a jupyter notebook environment and you can also access various databases
> from here as is.
>
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 10:29 PM Tambe Tabitha <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>> My name is Tambe Tabitha Achere and I just got a Bachelor of Engineering
>> in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and I am pursuing a career in
>> Data Science. I am Cameroonian.
>>
>> I learnt how to code and Data science using books, videos and online
>> tutorials. I code in Python. I know SQL too.
>>
>> I think contributing to opensource and the exposure it gives me will be a
>> good test of my knowledge. However, I tried contributing earlier and I was
>> a little confused with how to use toolforge and how to get datasets from
>> the dumps into analysis-friendly structures like Pandas Dataframes.
>>
>> Are there areas of the codebase that needs analytical skills which I can
>> contribute to which don't initially require a lot of knowledge about
>> mediawiki customized tools? This will give me a softer landing as I start
>> to contribute again.
>>
>> Please let me know if there are any issues or projects you recommend.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Tambe Tabitha Achere.
>>
>>
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