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

[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
as well.
Not just for technical community:
Organize workshops on how to get started with Wiki development. Although
the documentation is good, I have seen a reluctance
and fear in people when they setup such an app that is being used by
millions. We can also organize Wikiathons where people
would try to make as many edits possible in a given time span. I am
positive that we will see a lot of edits because people in college
tend to carve their niche.

Any thoughts are welcome.


On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Sumana Harihareswara  wrote:

> 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 community wants. We can
> > also start some regular activity to boost technical community across
> India.
> > How we can grow technical community? Ideas are welcomed. Since we all are
> > from different states. It is very useful to grow technical activities
> > across India as well as to find new contributors.
>
> Here are some tutorials that coders could teach:
>
> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/MediaWiki_Workshop
>
> Here are some instructions regarding documenting, localising and porting
> templates and gadgets:
>
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/4/49/Extension_cite.pdf
>
>
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/2/2d/Documenting_noteworthy_local_templates.pdf
>
> According to Arjuna Rao Chavala,
>
> https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Essentials_for_Nurturing_Small_Wikis
> it's really helpful to smaller Wikipedias to help them adopt tools like
> HotCat and Twinkle and bots.  So that's something Indian technical
> contributors could work on.
>
> I have a suggestion:
>
> And whatever languages you feel comfortable with, try making some small
> improvements to a few pages for wikis in those languages -- Tamil
> Wiktionary, Kannada Wikisource, Hindi Wikiquote, Bengali Wikipedia, and
> so on.  And then look at the wiki's village pump, watering hole,
> scriptorium, or other community discussion forum.  It's always nice to
> have a bit of direct experience and observation.
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> Engineering Community Manager
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] welcome, new technical contributors

[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 language wiki must have like HotCat. Bot is also very useful tool.
Since I have created some bot scripts for gu wiki for automate the tasks
like placing infobox, grammar correction etc.

According to me mediawiki gadget kitchen is very easy thing to start. I
have already developed half tutorial for new coders. I will complete it
after my examination. Its very interesting stuff and it uses js, css :)
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gadget_kitchen

If you want any kind of information/help regarding to gadgets, bots,
extension I can help you :)

Happy Coding

Thanks
Harsh



On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Sumana Harihareswara  wrote:

> 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 community wants. We can
> > also start some regular activity to boost technical community across
> India.
> > How we can grow technical community? Ideas are welcomed. Since we all are
> > from different states. It is very useful to grow technical activities
> > across India as well as to find new contributors.
>
> Here are some tutorials that coders could teach:
>
> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/MediaWiki_Workshop
>
> Here are some instructions regarding documenting, localising and porting
> templates and gadgets:
>
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/4/49/Extension_cite.pdf
>
>
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/2/2d/Documenting_noteworthy_local_templates.pdf
>
> According to Arjuna Rao Chavala,
>
> https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Essentials_for_Nurturing_Small_Wikis
> it's really helpful to smaller Wikipedias to help them adopt tools like
> HotCat and Twinkle and bots.  So that's something Indian technical
> contributors could work on.
>
> I have a suggestion:
>
> And whatever languages you feel comfortable with, try making some small
> improvements to a few pages for wikis in those languages -- Tamil
> Wiktionary, Kannada Wikisource, Hindi Wikiquote, Bengali Wikipedia, and
> so on.  And then look at the wiki's village pump, watering hole,
> scriptorium, or other community discussion forum.  It's always nice to
> have a bit of direct experience and observation.
> --
> Sumana Harihareswara
> Engineering Community Manager
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] welcome, new technical contributors

[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 community wants. We can
> also start some regular activity to boost technical community across India.
> How we can grow technical community? Ideas are welcomed. Since we all are
> from different states. It is very useful to grow technical activities
> across India as well as to find new contributors.

Here are some tutorials that coders could teach:

http://wiki.wikimedia.in/MediaWiki_Workshop

Here are some instructions regarding documenting, localising and porting
templates and gadgets:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/4/49/Extension_cite.pdf

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/2/2d/Documenting_noteworthy_local_templates.pdf

According to Arjuna Rao Chavala,
https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Essentials_for_Nurturing_Small_Wikis
it's really helpful to smaller Wikipedias to help them adopt tools like
HotCat and Twinkle and bots.  So that's something Indian technical
contributors could work on.

I have a suggestion:

And whatever languages you feel comfortable with, try making some small
improvements to a few pages for wikis in those languages -- Tamil
Wiktionary, Kannada Wikisource, Hindi Wikiquote, Bengali Wikipedia, and
so on.  And then look at the wiki's village pump, watering hole,
scriptorium, or other community discussion forum.  It's always nice to
have a bit of direct experience and observation.
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Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation

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

[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 can
also start some regular activity to boost technical community across India.
How we can grow technical community? Ideas are welcomed. Since we all are
from different states. It is very useful to grow technical activities
across India as well as to find new contributors.

Thanks
Harsh


On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 12:18 PM, anubhav agarwal wrote:

>
> 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 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 India,
>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-india you may
>> want to join.
>>
>> Thanks Sumana for being so bold and sharing information, updates related
>> to India.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ansuman 
>> *ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ *
>>
>>
>> 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, Puneet kaur, and anyone else who has
>>> joined. :-)
>>>
>>> The Indian Wikimedia community is eager to share knowledge, host
>>> technical events, and generally improve the sites and their content.
>>> These new contributors are interested in helping specifically with the
>>> tech side, so if you'd like to ask them for help with something, now is
>>> a good time!  (Except that many of them have exams.) :)
>>>
>>> Thanks for joining the Wikimedia community!
>>> --
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>>> Engineering Community Manager
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] welcome, new technical contributors

[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 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 India,
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-india you may want
> to join.
>
> Thanks Sumana for being so bold and sharing information, updates related
> to India.
>
> Regards,
> Ansuman 
> *ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ *
>
>
> 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, Puneet kaur, and anyone else who has
>> joined. :-)
>>
>> The Indian Wikimedia community is eager to share knowledge, host
>> technical events, and generally improve the sites and their content.
>> These new contributors are interested in helping specifically with the
>> tech side, so if you'd like to ask them for help with something, now is
>> a good time!  (Except that many of them have exams.) :)
>>
>> Thanks for joining the Wikimedia community!
>> --
>> Sumana Harihareswara
>> Engineering Community Manager
>> Wikimedia Foundation
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] welcome, new technical contributors

[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, Puneet kaur, and anyone else who has
> joined. :-)
>
> The Indian Wikimedia community is eager to share knowledge, host
> technical events, and generally improve the sites and their content.
> These new contributors are interested in helping specifically with the
> tech side, so if you'd like to ask them for help with something, now is
> a good time!  (Except that many of them have exams.) :)
>
> Thanks for joining the Wikimedia community!
>

Hello to all,

Thankyou for this warm welcome, Sumana :)

I am glad to announce, my exams are over now (finally! :P). I am all free
nowadays, except some GSoC homework. So yes, you can add me (
grvi...@gmail.com)
on CC of any bug you would like to have fixed. I will try my best to debug
and
fix it as soon as possible. Or if there's anything else, you think I can
help in,
please do let me know.

PS: though Grv99 is not that bad, I would love to be called Gaurav instead
:)


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

[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 Wikimedia
community in my college.

Thank You,
Aarti


On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 8:04 PM, 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, Puneet kaur, and anyone else who has
> joined. :-)
>
> The Indian Wikimedia community is eager to share knowledge, host
> technical events, and generally improve the sites and their content.
> These new contributors are interested in helping specifically with the
> tech side, so if you'd like to ask them for help with something, now is
> a good time!  (Except that many of them have exams.) :)
>
> Thanks for joining the Wikimedia community!
> --
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> Engineering Community Manager
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] welcome, new technical contributors

[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 at 8:04 PM, 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, Puneet kaur, and anyone else who has
> joined. :-)
>
> The Indian Wikimedia community is eager to share knowledge, host
> technical events, and generally improve the sites and their content.
> These new contributors are interested in helping specifically with the
> tech side, so if you'd like to ask them for help with something, now is
> a good time!  (Except that many of them have exams.) :)
>
> Thanks for joining the Wikimedia community!
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> Engineering Community Manager
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] welcome, new technical contributors

[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 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, Puneet kaur, and anyone else who has
> joined. :-)
>
> The Indian Wikimedia community is eager to share knowledge, host
> technical events, and generally improve the sites and their content.
> These new contributors are interested in helping specifically with the
> tech side, so if you'd like to ask them for help with something, now is
> a good time!  (Except that many of them have exams.) :)
>
> Thanks for joining the Wikimedia community!
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> Engineering Community Manager
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] welcome, new technical contributors

[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, Puneet kaur, and anyone else who has
> joined. :-)
>
> The Indian Wikimedia community is eager to share knowledge, host
> technical events, and generally improve the sites and their content.
> These new contributors are interested in helping specifically with the
> tech side, so if you'd like to ask them for help with something, now is
> a good time!  (Except that many of them have exams.) :)
>
> Thanks for joining the Wikimedia community!
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] welcome, new technical contributors

[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 India,
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-india you may want
to join.

Thanks Sumana for being so bold and sharing information, updates related to
India.

Regards,
Ansuman 
*ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ *


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, Puneet kaur, and anyone else who has
> joined. :-)
>
> The Indian Wikimedia community is eager to share knowledge, host
> technical events, and generally improve the sites and their content.
> These new contributors are interested in helping specifically with the
> tech side, so if you'd like to ask them for help with something, now is
> a good time!  (Except that many of them have exams.) :)
>
> Thanks for joining the Wikimedia community!
> --
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> Engineering Community Manager
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