Hello all, The Bay Area Wikipedians User Group organizers (BAWUG: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bay_Area_Wikipedians_User_Group), is in the early stages of planning a satellite "hackathon" to coincide with the main one in Milan in May.
As part of the planning, I'm thinking about doing more of a "beginner's workshop" type format, where there is a lot of hands on training and we work as a group on one or two projects. This is in contrast to the normal hackathon format where you give suggestions then set a bunch of people loose to work individually and in teams on a variety of projects. To be clear, we're anticipating 10 or less attendees, with almost no experience in Wikimedia development (but still developers of at least moderate other experience) Anyways, I was wondering if there's any capacity for us to have a "sandbox" type toolforge project, where we can get our participants onboarded with developer accounts, and they can experiment with developing and launching some kind of "hello world" tool. I think it would be a great experience to set up the accounts, the keys, the SSH tunnels, etc, as well as learning how to query enwiki_p and access other resources. Though looking through the onboarding docs just now (it's been ages since I've done this process myself and it clearly has changed), it says "Toolforge membership" can take up to a week for approval? This might not be an issue because I was already planning to have a "pre-session" for our workshop a week before the in person event. Basically my request comes down to: Can I just go ahead and use the self service tool account creation workflow ( https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Tool_accounts#Creating) with the knowledge that I'm not developing a "real" tool, it's for educational purposes? Thanks, -Travis BAWUG Co-organizer
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