Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] welcome, new technical contributors

2013-05-14 Thread Aarti K. Dwivedi
Hi, >> How we can grow technical community? Almost every technical college has a Linux User Group which meets once in a while. We could use their interest in Open Source to increase our contributor base. A few colleges also have groups dedicated to programming activities. We can reach out to them

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] welcome, new technical contributors

2013-05-12 Thread Harsh Kothari
I totally agree with Sumana. Try to edit something on wiki so that you can also think that this facility must be there and watch village pump for problems and try to solve that. Since I am contributing in Gujarati wikipedia I have already localized and ported some of essential gadgets that any lang

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] welcome, new technical contributors

2013-05-12 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Harsh wrote: > Hopefully you all have subscribed mediawiki-india list. Since we all are > technical contributors. We can fix the bugs of local wikis like gu wiki, hi > wiki etc. We can localize and port some gadgets on local wikis as well. > Also can develop some new feature that particular commun

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] welcome, new technical contributors

2013-05-12 Thread Harsh Kothari
Hi All Hopefully you all have subscribed mediawiki-india list. Since we all are technical contributors. We can fix the bugs of local wikis like gu wiki, hi wiki etc. We can localize and port some gadgets on local wikis as well. Also can develop some new feature that particular community wants. We

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] welcome, new technical contributors

2013-05-12 Thread anubhav agarwal
Hey Ansuman, Thanks for the welcome. As Sumanah pointed out I am interested in helping Wikimedia India community. How should I start ? On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 10:09 AM, ansuman wrote: > Welcome everyone! > > Grv99, Prageck, Rtdwivedi, Rahul21, Nilesh.c, Puneet kaur, and others. > > Glad to ha

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] welcome, new technical contributors

2013-05-12 Thread Gaurav Chawla
On 10 May 2013 20:04, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > We had several applicants to Google Summer of Code this year who come > from India, so I asked them to also please join this list to keep up > with the Wikimedia community in India. Hello to users Grv99, Prageck, > Rtdwivedi, Rahul21, Nilesh.c,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] welcome, new technical contributors

2013-05-12 Thread Aarti K. Dwivedi
HI, Thank you Sumana! I am Aarti Dwivedi, undergraduate moving to my 3rd year at IIT Roorkee. I have applied to GSoC 2013 for the project 'Refactoring of ProofreadPage extension'. I plan to work more closely with Wikimedia India. It would be good to know what I can possibly do to expand the W

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] welcome, new technical contributors

2013-05-12 Thread Puneet Kaur
Thank you Mam for such a warm welcome :-) It is indeed a pleasure for us to join the Wikimedia community and contribute. Love to read your mails that help us know what is going around in the community. Looking forward to some technical events from the Wikimedia community.. On Fri, May 10, 2013

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] welcome, new technical contributors

2013-05-12 Thread Rahul Maliakkal
Hello, Regarding the exams, most of them get over by the end of may :) Looking forward to contribute to the community this summer, would be a learning curve for all the new developers. Thanks On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > We had several applicants to Google Su

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] welcome, new technical contributors

2013-05-12 Thread arun vm
Thank u On 5/10/13, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > We had several applicants to Google Summer of Code this year who come > from India, so I asked them to also please join this list to keep up > with the Wikimedia community in India. Hello to users Grv99, Prageck, > Rtdwivedi, Rahul21, Nilesh.c, P

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] welcome, new technical contributors

2013-05-10 Thread ansuman
Welcome everyone! Grv99, Prageck, Rtdwivedi, Rahul21, Nilesh.c, Puneet kaur, and others. Glad to have you all here, feel free to share your views, and contributions. And please keep us updated about your work you all have been doing at GSoC. There is also a list for MediaWiki development in Ind