Re: [Wikitech-l] Introduction

[Andre Klapper]

Hi and welcome Rohit!

On Sat, 2021-03-20 at 16:37 +0530, Rohit Purkait wrote:
> I am Rohit Purkait, 1st year B.Tech undergraduate at Techno India Main.
> 
> I would like to contribute to Wikitech-I. I have working experience in
> HTML, CSS,  SASS, JavaScript and Node.js

Please see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_Developers - thanks! :)

Cheers,
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[Rohit Purkait]

Hi Wikitech-I Team,
I am Rohit Purkait, 1st year B.Tech undergraduate at Techno India Main.

I would like to contribute to Wikitech-I*.* I have working experience in
HTML, CSS,  SASS, JavaScript and Node.js

This is one of the responsive websites created by me in the  Front-End
Mentor Challenge:
 My created website 
Here is the GitHub repo link for the above: Github Repo Link


Thanks and Regards,
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Introduction

[Srishti Sethi]

Hello Bobga,

Thanks for your interest in applying to GSoC with Wikimedia! To start with,
you can look into our participants' guide here
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Participants


You can then go through some of the project ideas listed here
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2020 (we will be
updating this list with more projects in the coming weeks!)


If you have further questions, please feel free to chat with us on Zulip
https://wikimedia.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/220258-gsoc20-outreachy20


Cheers,
Srishti

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On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 6:07 AM Bobga Hermann N. 
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>
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> Hello, I’m Bobga Hermann, a software engineering student from the College
> of Technology of Buea, Cameroon. Please I’ll like to be guided on a
> starting point on projects to work on concerning the Gsoc Program from
> Google. I skilled with knowledge in html5 and css3, including experience in
> Graphic Designing. I await your reply,  thank you.
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[Bobga Hermann N .]

Sent from Mail for Windows 10
Hello, I’m Bobga Hermann, a software engineering student from the College of 
Technology of Buea, Cameroon. Please I’ll like to be guided on a starting point 
on projects to work on concerning the Gsoc Program from Google. I skilled with 
knowledge in html5 and css3, including experience in Graphic Designing. I await 
your reply,  thank you.
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Re: [Wikitech-l] introduction

[Michael Schönitzer]

Hi,

additional to all the good links you already received, I want to point you
to two places that you can raise a questions or ask for help when your
stuck :

   - The Technical Advice IRC Meeting is a weekly support event for
   volunteer developers:
   https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting
   - There's a new platform for asking questions:
   https://discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org/


Happy Hacking,
 Michael


2018-08-16 13:09 GMT+02:00 Nadege Awah :

>  Dear sir/madame;
>
> I am Awah Nadege Tayebatu, female and a Cameroonian. I am an Applied
> Geology student of the University of Buea, Cameroon. I will love to
> contribute code to MediaWiki and so will appreciate some guide on how to
> start contributing and some learning  resources i can use as a beginner.
>
>   Thank you.
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[Egbe Eugene]

I would recommend you start with the AWMD program.

https://www.mediawikiorg/wiki/Africa_Wikimedia_Developers_Project

This should be a good place where you will meet folks closest to you who
can help.


On Thu, 16 Aug 2018 at 12:25 Jack Gleeson  wrote:

> Hello Awah Nadege Tayebatu!
>
> I would recommend that you look here to get started
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker
>
> Jack
>
> On 16 August 2018 at 12:09, Nadege Awah  wrote:
>
> >  Dear sir/madame;
> >
> > I am Awah Nadege Tayebatu, female and a Cameroonian. I am an Applied
> > Geology student of the University of Buea, Cameroon. I will love to
> > contribute code to MediaWiki and so will appreciate some guide on how to
> > start contributing and some learning  resources i can use as a beginner.
> >
> >   Thank you.
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Re: [Wikitech-l] introduction

[Jaime Crespo]

Hi,

Here are some resources I would recommend reading first:

* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/New_Developers
* Slides:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Technical_Areas_An_Overview.pdf
*
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker

Other than that, general resources about PHP, Javascript, web development,
SQL, git can also be useful, depending on the topic you would be interested
on contributing.
Maybe someone else can provide also some extra tips and resources.

Thank you and welcome!

On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 1:09 PM Nadege Awah  wrote:

>  Dear sir/madame;
>
> I am Awah Nadege Tayebatu, female and a Cameroonian. I am an Applied
> Geology student of the University of Buea, Cameroon. I will love to
> contribute code to MediaWiki and so will appreciate some guide on how to
> start contributing and some learning  resources i can use as a beginner.
>
>   Thank you.
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[Wikitech-l] introduction

[Jack Gleeson]

Hello Awah Nadege Tayebatu!

I would recommend that you look here to get started
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker

Jack

On 16 August 2018 at 12:09, Nadege Awah  wrote:

>  Dear sir/madame;
>
> I am Awah Nadege Tayebatu, female and a Cameroonian. I am an Applied
> Geology student of the University of Buea, Cameroon. I will love to
> contribute code to MediaWiki and so will appreciate some guide on how to
> start contributing and some learning  resources i can use as a beginner.
>
>   Thank you.
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[Nadege Awah]

 Dear sir/madame;

I am Awah Nadege Tayebatu, female and a Cameroonian. I am an Applied
Geology student of the University of Buea, Cameroon. I will love to
contribute code to MediaWiki and so will appreciate some guide on how to
start contributing and some learning  resources i can use as a beginner.

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[Wikitech-l] Introduction : Ujjwal Agrawal ( GSoC 2018 )

[Ujjwal Agrawal]

Hello Everyone!

I am Ujjwal Agrawal, third-year B.Tech. Undergraduate at Indian
Institue of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad, and I've been selected for GSoC
2018. I have a keen interest in Android App development and I will be
implementing a feature to browse/search the Wikimedia Commons
Repository from Commons App >, as a part of my
intern program.

I’d like to thank my mentors Nicolas Raoul and Neslihan for giving me
this wonderful opportunity!

Regards
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Introduction : Tanvi Dadu ( GSoC 2018)

[Derk-Jan Hartman]

Looking forward to see you work on these items !

Welcome,
DJ

On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 7:10 AM, Brian Wolff  wrote:
> Welcome Tanvi!
>
> --
> Brian
>
> On Tuesday, April 24, 2018, Tanvi Dadu  wrote:
>> Greetings !
>>
>> I am Tanvi Dadu, GSoC 2018 participant . I will be implementing  Feedback
>> Sharing Module in Commons App and
>> quiz
>> , for users who have a
>> high upload revert rate ,as a part of my intern program under Josephine
> Lim
>> and Vivek Maskara. I have a keen interest in android development and
>> participation in GSoC provides a huge opportunity to get acquainted with
>> the latest technology and work with highly skilled professionals.This is
> my
>> first time being a part of a FOSS internship and I am quite excited about
>> it.
>>
>> Regards
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[Brian Wolff]

Welcome Tanvi!

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On Tuesday, April 24, 2018, Tanvi Dadu  wrote:
> Greetings !
>
> I am Tanvi Dadu, GSoC 2018 participant . I will be implementing  Feedback
> Sharing Module in Commons App and
> quiz
> , for users who have a
> high upload revert rate ,as a part of my intern program under Josephine
Lim
> and Vivek Maskara. I have a keen interest in android development and
> participation in GSoC provides a huge opportunity to get acquainted with
> the latest technology and work with highly skilled professionals.This is
my
> first time being a part of a FOSS internship and I am quite excited about
> it.
>
> Regards
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[Tanvi Dadu]

Greetings !

I am Tanvi Dadu, GSoC 2018 participant . I will be implementing  Feedback
Sharing Module in Commons App and
quiz
, for users who have a
high upload revert rate ,as a part of my intern program under Josephine Lim
and Vivek Maskara. I have a keen interest in android development and
participation in GSoC provides a huge opportunity to get acquainted with
the latest technology and work with highly skilled professionals.This is my
first time being a part of a FOSS internship and I am quite excited about
it.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Introduction

[Brad Jorsch (Anomie)]

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 7:03 PM, rupert THURNER 
wrote:

> Really? What keywords are you using?
>

"wikimedia projects programming beginner",[1] just as you said.

[1]:
https://www.google.com/search?q=wikimedia+projects+programming+beginner=utf-8=utf-8


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Re: [Wikitech-l] Introduction

[David Gerard]

On 20 March 2017 at 01:03, MZMcBride  wrote:

> In the footer of every Wikimedia wiki, there should be a "Developers" link
> that leads to .
> You can see this link at 
> or  or
> . Suggestions for more
> places to put this link or better text to make it more obvious are always
> welcome, of course. :-)


+1 !!


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[rupert THURNER]

On Mar 19, 2017 2:17 PM, "Brad Jorsch (Anomie)" 
wrote:

On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 7:23 AM, rupert THURNER 
wrote:

> where is this beginners page hidden,


Is https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker what
you're looking for?


> and why are google, bing, and duckduckgo not able to find it?
>

I don't know. When I try that search on Google the above page shows up as
the 9th result, even in a private browsing session with a different browser
from a different IP.


Really? What keywords are you using?

Rupert
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[MZMcBride]

rupert THURNER wrote:
>ha, how embarrassing! i used google to search "wikimedia projects
>programming beginner" and google found the beginners guide for python
>programmers, which is not what i wanted :)
>https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Programmers . then i went
>to https://www.wikipedia.org/ and i was lost as well. donation, shop,
>help, and, and, and. no programming.

In the footer of every Wikimedia wiki, there should be a "Developers" link
that leads to .

You can see this link at 
or  or
. Suggestions for more
places to put this link or better text to make it more obvious are always
welcome, of course. :-)

MZMcBride



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[Brad Jorsch (Anomie)]

On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 7:23 AM, rupert THURNER 
wrote:

> where is this beginners page hidden,


Is https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker what
you're looking for?


> and why are google, bing, and duckduckgo not able to find it?
>

I don't know. When I try that search on Google the above page shows up as
the 9th result, even in a private browsing session with a different browser
from a different IP.


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[Andre Klapper]

On Sun, 2017-03-19 at 12:23 +0100, rupert THURNER wrote:
> ha, how embarrassing! i used google to search "wikimedia projects
> programming beginner" and google found the beginners guide for python
> programmers, which is not what i wanted :)
> https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Programmers . then i went
> to https://www.wikipedia.org/ and i was lost as well. donation, shop,
> help, and, and, and. no programming.
> 
> where is this beginners page hidden, and why are google, bing, and
> duckduckgo not able to find it?
> 
> 
> > On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Egbe Eugene  wrote:
> > I wish to express my desire to participate in this year's summer of code as
> > i know it is the most rapid way ( apart from the hackathons) to hack the
> > Foundation projects. For someone as new to the foundation as i am, are
> > there any projects which could be suggested for me to quickly get about and
> > straight to work.

For more information, please see 
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker and
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_programs

Thanks!
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[rupert THURNER]

ha, how embarrassing! i used google to search "wikimedia projects
programming beginner" and google found the beginners guide for python
programmers, which is not what i wanted :)
https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Programmers . then i went
to https://www.wikipedia.org/ and i was lost as well. donation, shop,
help, and, and, and. no programming.

where is this beginners page hidden, and why are google, bing, and
duckduckgo not able to find it?

best,
rupert

On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Egbe Eugene  wrote:
> Thanks for the warm welcome into the community *All*
>
> I wish to express my desire to participate in this year's summer of code as
> i know it is the most rapid way ( apart from the hackathons) to hack the
> Foundation projects. For someone as new to the foundation as i am, are
> there any projects which could be suggested for me to quickly get about and
> straight to work.
>
> Thanks very much
> Egbe
>
> On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 8:55 AM, Jan Dittrich 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Egbe,
>>
>> Great to have you on board!
>>
>> Don’t hesitate to poke people if you have trouble finding or understanding
>> documentation, we may be already used to its quirks :-)

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[Egbe Eugene]

Thanks for the warm welcome into the community *All*

I wish to express my desire to participate in this year's summer of code as
i know it is the most rapid way ( apart from the hackathons) to hack the
Foundation projects. For someone as new to the foundation as i am, are
there any projects which could be suggested for me to quickly get about and
straight to work.

Thanks very much
Egbe

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 8:55 AM, Jan Dittrich 
wrote:

> Hi Egbe,
>
> Great to have you on board!
>
> Don’t hesitate to poke people if you have trouble finding or understanding
> documentation, we may be already used to its quirks :-)
>
> Jan
>
>
> --
> Jan Dittrich
> UX Design/ User Research
>
> Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
> Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0
> http://wikimedia.de
>
> Imagine a world, in which every single human being can freely share in the
> sum of all knowledge. That‘s our commitment.
>
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[Jan Dittrich]

Hi Egbe,

Great to have you on board!

Don’t hesitate to poke people if you have trouble finding or understanding
documentation, we may be already used to its quirks :-)

Jan


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[zppix e]

Welcome Egbe!!! We are always around on irc at chat.freenode.net in 
#wikimedia-dev. Hope you enjoy your time as a volunteer developer!
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Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 7, 2017, at 6:25 PM, Bryan Davis  wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 2:41 PM, Egbe Eugene  wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I am Egbe Eugene. I come from Cameroon and i am quite new to the movement
>> as a developer. My thought towards contributing to the community is driven
>> by the impact which the foundation could bring to my country and Africa and
>> also what i will do in order that the movement be heard around the ends of
>> my country.
>> 
>> I will also wish to enhance my engineering skills while contributing to the
>> movement by working on the foundation's projects.
>> 
>> Hope to get more help to get started soonest.
> 
> Welcome Egbe! We can always use more help from technical contributors,
> and its especially nice to see people coming into the technical side
> of the movement to hone skills that they can put to use elsewhere in
> their lives as well. The
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker wiki
> page is a good place to start looking for ways to contribute.
> 
> Bryan
> -- 
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On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 2:41 PM, Egbe Eugene  wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am Egbe Eugene. I come from Cameroon and i am quite new to the movement
> as a developer. My thought towards contributing to the community is driven
> by the impact which the foundation could bring to my country and Africa and
> also what i will do in order that the movement be heard around the ends of
> my country.
>
> I will also wish to enhance my engineering skills while contributing to the
> movement by working on the foundation's projects.
>
> Hope to get more help to get started soonest.

Welcome Egbe! We can always use more help from technical contributors,
and its especially nice to see people coming into the technical side
of the movement to hone skills that they can put to use elsewhere in
their lives as well. The
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker wiki
page is a good place to start looking for ways to contribute.

Bryan
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[Egbe Eugene]

Hi all,

I am Egbe Eugene. I come from Cameroon and i am quite new to the movement
as a developer. My thought towards contributing to the community is driven
by the impact which the foundation could bring to my country and Africa and
also what i will do in order that the movement be heard around the ends of
my country.

I will also wish to enhance my engineering skills while contributing to the
movement by working on the foundation's projects.

Hope to get more help to get started soonest.

Thanks
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[bawolff]

>>
>
> In regards to 3:
>> 3.  What are the other things that happen apart from GSoC(In case if I wish
>> to contribute even after Gsoc. How is the  culture of this
>> community?
>
> You are welcome to contribute at any time. You do not need to be part
> of a program to do so. The other major outreach programs are GCI
> (happening right now) which is open to high school students, and
> Outreachy, which is similar to GSOC, but only open to Women.
>
> As far as "culture" goes, that's a rather broad question. Can you be
> more specific.
>
> In regards to 4,
>> 4. I am not facing a lot of difficulties in IRC. Sometimes I don't get the
>> reply, sometimes my nickname is unavailable if I get offline for some time
>> and it is not very friendly. Could somebody help me in IRC. I am using mac.
>> My nickname is *mayank_dev*
>
> Whether or not somebody replies to you can depend on a lot of factors,
> such as how specific your question is, if anyone knowledgeable is
> around (This can very significantly with timezone), etc. If your
> nickname is unavailable, I would suggest just chosing a different one.
> Possibly it is unavailable because you are still logged in somewhere
> (most likely), or maybe someone else also uses that nickname. If you
> really want to always have the same nickname always, see the freenode
> ChanServ docs about how to register a nickname.
>
> --
> Brian

Its been pointed out to me that my description of Outreachy was
incorrect. It is open to anyone who is in a group that is
"underrepresented", not just Women. Additionally, unlike GSOC, you do
not need to be a student to participate. For more information on this
program see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Introduction for Gsoc 2017

[bawolff]

On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 6:50 AM, MAYANK JINDAL  wrote:
> Hi ,
> Hope you are doing well.
> I want to discuss my preparation for Gsoc-2017 in Wikimedia. I am very new
> to this organization and I am facing a lot of difficulties in getting
> Wikimedia workflow.
> 1. I have done open source contributions in past and what I have seen is -
> They have their repositories on GitHub and issues related to that repo. For
> preparing to contribute, we just had to fork their repo and send a pull
> request after resolving the issue. But in Wikipedia, there is a lot of
> hassle(phabricator, gerrit and all).
> 2. For the preparation of GSoC, we need to choose an idea from the idea
> page. Can you please help me in choosing the project?
>I am doing android app developement since 3 years. So I think android
> related tasks would be easy for me to get started.
>Could Someone help me for getting started in android?
> 3.  What are the other things that happen apart from GSoC(In case if I wish
> to contribute even after Gsoc. How is the  culture of this
> community?
> 4. I am not facing a lot of difficulties in IRC. Sometimes I don't get the
> reply, sometimes my nickname is unavailable if I get offline for some time
> and it is not very friendly. Could somebody help me in IRC. I am using mac.
> My nickname is *mayank_dev*
>
> I apologize for my long email. But I am facing a lot of difficulties in
> the community.
>
> Thanks.
>

In regards to 3:
> 3.  What are the other things that happen apart from GSoC(In case if I wish
> to contribute even after Gsoc. How is the  culture of this
> community?

You are welcome to contribute at any time. You do not need to be part
of a program to do so. The other major outreach programs are GCI
(happening right now) which is open to high school students, and
Outreachy, which is similar to GSOC, but only open to Women.

As far as "culture" goes, that's a rather broad question. Can you be
more specific.

In regards to 4,
> 4. I am not facing a lot of difficulties in IRC. Sometimes I don't get the
> reply, sometimes my nickname is unavailable if I get offline for some time
> and it is not very friendly. Could somebody help me in IRC. I am using mac.
> My nickname is *mayank_dev*

Whether or not somebody replies to you can depend on a lot of factors,
such as how specific your question is, if anyone knowledgeable is
around (This can very significantly with timezone), etc. If your
nickname is unavailable, I would suggest just chosing a different one.
Possibly it is unavailable because you are still logged in somewhere
(most likely), or maybe someone else also uses that nickname. If you
really want to always have the same nickname always, see the freenode
ChanServ docs about how to register a nickname.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Introduction for Gsoc 2017

[MAYANK JINDAL]

Hi ,
Hope you are doing well.
I want to discuss my preparation for Gsoc-2017 in Wikimedia. I am very new
to this organization and I am facing a lot of difficulties in getting
Wikimedia workflow.
1. I have done open source contributions in past and what I have seen is -
They have their repositories on GitHub and issues related to that repo. For
preparing to contribute, we just had to fork their repo and send a pull
request after resolving the issue. But in Wikipedia, there is a lot of
hassle(phabricator, gerrit and all).
2. For the preparation of GSoC, we need to choose an idea from the idea
page. Can you please help me in choosing the project?
   I am doing android app developement since 3 years. So I think android
related tasks would be easy for me to get started.
   Could Someone help me for getting started in android?
3.  What are the other things that happen apart from GSoC(In case if I wish
to contribute even after Gsoc. How is the  culture of this
community?
4. I am not facing a lot of difficulties in IRC. Sometimes I don't get the
reply, sometimes my nickname is unavailable if I get offline for some time
and it is not very friendly. Could somebody help me in IRC. I am using mac.
My nickname is *mayank_dev*

I apologize for my long email. But I am facing a lot of difficulties in
the community.

Thanks.




On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 7:36 PM, Andre Klapper 
wrote:

> On Wed, 2016-08-24 at 22:39 +0530, MAYANK JINDAL wrote:
> >  My name is Mayank Jindal. I am third year undergraduate student
> > currently studying at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. I
> > want to take part in Gsoc-2017 from Wikimedia.
> > I have knowledge of C, C++, JAVA, Python, Android app development and
> > Web development and beginner in *Machine Learning, Artificial
> > Intelligence.*
> > I am very enthusiastic to learn new skills which would be required.
>
> Thanks for your early interest.
> Glad to hear you'd like to get involved!
>
> Regarding machine learning,
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Objective_Revision_Evaluation_Service
> might be interesting?
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Revision_scoring_as_a_service
> lists mailing list and IRC channel contact information.
>
> We don't have any information about GSoC 2017 yet but you could get an
> impression by looking at the page for GSoC 2016 at
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016
> and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_programs for general info
> on workflows and expectations for GSoC, Outreachy and other programs.
>
> About technical contributions in general, have you taken a look at
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker
> already? It explains how to set up your testing environment, how to
> find good "easy" tasks to start with, how to check out code via Git,
> how to submit patches via Gerrit, recommendations for communication,
> and best places where to ask any questions you might have.
>
> Hope that helps for the start? If not, tell us!
>
> Looking forward to your contributions! :)
>
> andre
> --
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> http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
>



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Re: [Wikitech-l] Introduction

[Andre Klapper]

Hi Taufik,

Thanks for your early interest.
Glad to hear you'd like to get involved!

On Thu, 2016-09-08 at 14:29 +0700, Taufik Hidayat wrote:
> I'd love to do submit proposal for google summer of code 2017 in wikimedia
> foundation about "Automatic Summarization of Articles" i found on this link
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127038.
> i hope you can share advice or what should i do or prepare, and which
> idea(s) that's a good fit for my skills. thank you very much in advance.

Please check out my reply to a similar request on this mailing list at
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-September/086482.html

Thanks,
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Introduction for Gsoc 2017

[Andre Klapper]

On Wed, 2016-08-24 at 22:39 +0530, MAYANK JINDAL wrote:
>  My name is Mayank Jindal. I am third year undergraduate student
> currently studying at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. I
> want to take part in Gsoc-2017 from Wikimedia.
> I have knowledge of C, C++, JAVA, Python, Android app development and
> Web development and beginner in *Machine Learning, Artificial
> Intelligence.*
> I am very enthusiastic to learn new skills which would be required.

Thanks for your early interest.
Glad to hear you'd like to get involved!

Regarding machine learning,
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Objective_Revision_Evaluation_Service
might be interesting?
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Revision_scoring_as_a_service
lists mailing list and IRC channel contact information.

We don't have any information about GSoC 2017 yet but you could get an
impression by looking at the page for GSoC 2016 at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016
and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_programs for general info
on workflows and expectations for GSoC, Outreachy and other programs.

About technical contributions in general, have you taken a look at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker
already? It explains how to set up your testing environment, how to
find good "easy" tasks to start with, how to check out code via Git,
how to submit patches via Gerrit, recommendations for communication,
and best places where to ask any questions you might have.

Hope that helps for the start? If not, tell us!

Looking forward to your contributions! :)

andre
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[Wikitech-l] Introduction

[Taufik Hidayat]

Dear wikimedia,
I am taufik hidayat bacelor student from state islamic university sultan
syarif kasim of riau, indonesia. i'm currently studying computer and
science, especially text processing. My profile is at
orcid.org/-0002-4524-1882.

I'd love to do submit proposal for google summer of code 2017 in wikimedia
foundation about "Automatic Summarization of Articles" i found on this link
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127038.

My skills are PHP, Java, NodeJS, SQL Database such as MariaDB and Postgre
SQL. I also know about HTML 5, CSS and Javascript.

i hope you can share advice or what should i do or prepare, and which
idea(s) that's a good fit for my skills. thank you very much in advance.

best regards,
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Introduction for Gsoc 2017

[Rob Lanphier]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 10:09 AM, MAYANK JINDAL
 wrote:
>  My name is Mayank Jindal. I am third year undergraduate student
> currently studying at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. I want to
> take part in Gsoc-2017 from Wikimedia.
> I have knowledge of C, C++, JAVA, Python, Android app development and Web
> development and beginner in *Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence.*
> I am very enthusiastic to learn new skills which would be required.
> Kindly guide me to proceed further.

Greetings!  It's a bit early for GSoC 2017, but certainly getting to
know the project now will help everyone in 2017.  I think a good next
step is to join one of our IRC channels and say "hi" there:


In case you have a tough time striking up a conversation, this page
gives you some more information to peruse while you wait.


Rob

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[Wikitech-l] Introduction for Gsoc 2017

[MAYANK JINDAL]

Hi,
 My name is Mayank Jindal. I am third year undergraduate student
currently studying at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. I want to
take part in Gsoc-2017 from Wikimedia.
I have knowledge of C, C++, JAVA, Python, Android app development and Web
development and beginner in *Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence.*
I am very enthusiastic to learn new skills which would be required.
Kindly guide me to proceed further.

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[Wikitech-l] Introduction | GSoC Intern | Pywikibot Support for Thanks

[Sriharsh Bhyravajjula]

Hello All,

I am Sriharsh ( I go by the nick of darthbhyrava on IRC and on
Phabricator), and this is a rather late introduction of myself. :P

I am a second year undergrad pursuing a dual degree (B.Tech in Computer
Science and MS in Computational Linguisitcs) course at IIIT-Hyderabad. I
was fortunate enough to be selected as a Google Summer of Code intern at
Wikimedia this year, and I will be working on implementing pywikibot
support for the Thanks extension. :)

I would like to thank my mentor jayvdb for helping me extensively since
February, and for being one of the primary reasons for my getting selected.
I would also like to polybuildr, my friend from college, who introduced me
to the world of Wikimedia, fellow intern AbdealiJK for his help, and all
the other people who replied to my doubts on IRC or reviewed my patches or
commented on my tasks. Thank you all, for giving me an opportunity to work
on Thanks! :)

It's been a while into the Community Bonding period, and I have enjoyed it
so far. I have realized the demands of the project, and look forward to the
challenge of implementing Pywikibot-Thanks over the next two months. This
being my first GSoC experience, I look forward to a learning a lot over the
summer and beyond!

Thank you for your time.

Sriharsh Bhyravajjula
IIIT-Hyderabad

P.S: You can take a look at my proposal and progress at
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130585, or read my blog on my wonderful
Wikimedia experience so far at http://bhyrava.me/code . Thank you once
again!
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[Wikitech-l] Introduction for OPW (Collaborative spelling dictionary building tool)

[Ankita Shukla]

Hello!

I am Ankita Shukla, a Computer Science and Engineering student pursuing
the junior year of Bachelor of Technology at the Indian Institute of
Technology Roorkee, India. I had posted my announcement for the
project 'collaborative
spelling dictionary building tool' here
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-October/079007.html.

I have also set up the proposal page
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Ankitashukla/Proposal for the project
with help and guidance from my mentors. Since the project itself is quite
dependent on the community support and crowd-sourcing, therefore it would
be great to get started with considering the views of the community about
the same.

I'd be happy to have reviews and feedback from the community regarding the
proposal and the (feasibility of the) timeline in particular. I welcome any
suggestion towards the betterment of the project and am also ready to
discuss about any point which might not be very clear in the proposal. :)

Kindest regards

Thanks,
Ankita Shukla
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[Wikitech-l] Introduction for OPW Round 9

[Neta Livneh]

Hi everyone!

My Name is Neta Livneh and I am a PhD Student in the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, doing my research the field of computational social science.

I am applying to the FOSS Outreach Program for Women round 9  to work on
the interesting project Wikipedia article translation metrics. I have a
background in data analysis, a bit of machine learning skills and a lot of
motivation to find some a way to pinpoint translated articles in Wikipedia.

If you want to help or guide just interested in hearing more about the
project, please contact me.

Cheers,
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[Neta Livneh]

And here you can find more information about me
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Livnetata and about the project
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Livnetata/OPWproposal.

Cheers,
Neta

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 8:31 PM, Neta Livneh neta.liv...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi everyone!

 My Name is Neta Livneh and I am a PhD Student in the Hebrew University of
 Jerusalem, doing my research the field of computational social science.

 I am applying to the FOSS Outreach Program for Women round 9  to work on
 the interesting project Wikipedia article translation metrics. I have a
 background in data analysis, a bit of machine learning skills and a lot of
 motivation to find some a way to pinpoint translated articles in Wikipedia.

 If you want to help or guide just interested in hearing more about the
 project, please contact me.

 Cheers,
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Introduction for OPW (Collaborative spelling dictionary building tool)

[Pine W]

Hi Ankita,

The person to ask about OPW is Quim. He is likely trying to enjoy a day off
of work but hopefully he will contact you in a day or two.

Thanks for your interest in Wikimedia.

Pine
On Oct 11, 2014 10:13 PM, Ankita Shukla ankitashukla...@gmail.com wrote:

 Ankita Shukla ankitashukla707 at gmail.com writes:

 
  Hello everyone!
 
  I am Ankita Shukla and am a Computer Science and Engineering student
 pursuing
  the junior year of Bachelor of Technology.
 
  I am interested in working on the project: Collaborative spelling
 dictionary
  building tool, as given on the Featured Projects Section of MediaWiki OPW
  page.
 
  It'd be really great if I could get some guidance through this. Also,
 since
  the project did not seem to mention any micro-task explicitly, could
 someone
  suggest what I could take up as a micro-task?
  I'd be really grateful for the help and support. :)
 
  Thanks in advance,
  Ankita Shukla
 
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 Hi again!

 I have been looking forward to your response so that I can get started on
 the code-base as soon as possible. Please suggest some micro tasks that
 would be useful for this project and help me get started with the same.

 The featured ideas page doesn't have any tracked bug for this project idea
 (Collaborative Dictionary Building Tool)


 Kind regards,
 Thanks,
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[Quim Gil]

Hi Ankita,

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:06 PM, Ankita Shukla ankitashukla...@gmail.com
wrote:

 Hello everyone!

 I am Ankita Shukla and am a Computer Science and Engineering student
 pursuing
 the junior year of Bachelor of Technology.

 I am interested in working on the project: Collaborative spelling
 dictionary
 building tool, as given on the Featured Projects Section of MediaWiki OPW
 page.


https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FOSS_Outreach_Program_for_Women/Round_9#Collaborative_spelling_dictionary_building_tool
is mentored by Kartik and Amir (explicitly CCed above). There should have
been a link to a Bugzilla report where you and other candidates interested
could ask questions directly and discuss the project. I have created that
report now:

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71973

Please follow up there.

Let me also paste the description of that project idea, just in case other
contributors in this list want to help defining it:

There are extensive spelling dictionaries for the major languages of the
world: English, Italian, French and some others; at various degrees of
coverage, Mozilla has over a hundred
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/dictionaries/,LibreOffice dozens
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Language_support_of_LibreOffice. They
help make Wikipedia articles in these languages more readable and
professional and provide an opportunity for participation in improving
spelling. Many other languages, however, don’t have spelling dictionaries.
One possible way to build good spelling dictionaries would be to employ
crowdsourcing, and Wikipedia editors can be a good source for this, but
this approach will also require a robust system in which language experts
will be able to manage the submissions: accept, reject, filter and build
new versions of the spelling dictionary upon them. This can be done as a
MediaWiki extension integrated with VisualEditor, and possibly use Wikidata
as a backend.

   - Skills: PHP, Web frontend. Bonus: Familiarity with VisualEditor and
   Wikidata; experience in an existing dictionary-building community.
   - Mentors: Amir Aharoni
   https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Aaharoni, Kartik Mistry
   https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:KartikMistry
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[Ankita Shukla]

Hi Quim and Pine,

Thanks for the response.
I'll keep everyone updated about the progress. :)
Also, I'll follow up on the bugzilla report now on.

Thanks a lot!
Ankita Shukla


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[Brian Wolff]

On Oct 12, 2014 6:54 AM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 Hi Ankita,

 On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:06 PM, Ankita Shukla ankitashukla...@gmail.com

 wrote:

  Hello everyone!
 
  I am Ankita Shukla and am a Computer Science and Engineering student
  pursuing
  the junior year of Bachelor of Technology.
 
  I am interested in working on the project: Collaborative spelling
  dictionary
  building tool, as given on the Featured Projects Section of MediaWiki
OPW
  page.
 


https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FOSS_Outreach_Program_for_Women/Round_9#Collaborative_spelling_dictionary_building_tool
 is mentored by Kartik and Amir (explicitly CCed above). There should have
 been a link to a Bugzilla report where you and other candidates interested
 could ask questions directly and discuss the project. I have created that
 report now:

 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71973

 Please follow up there.

 Let me also paste the description of that project idea, just in case other
 contributors in this list want to help defining it:

 There are extensive spelling dictionaries for the major languages of the
 world: English, Italian, French and some others; at various degrees of
 coverage, Mozilla has over a hundred
 https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/dictionaries/,LibreOffice dozens
 https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Language_support_of_LibreOffice.
They
 help make Wikipedia articles in these languages more readable and
 professional and provide an opportunity for participation in improving
 spelling. Many other languages, however, don’t have spelling dictionaries.
 One possible way to build good spelling dictionaries would be to employ
 crowdsourcing, and Wikipedia editors can be a good source for this, but
 this approach will also require a robust system in which language experts
 will be able to manage the submissions: accept, reject, filter and build
 new versions of the spelling dictionary upon them. This can be done as a
 MediaWiki extension integrated with VisualEditor, and possibly use
Wikidata
 as a backend.

- Skills: PHP, Web frontend. Bonus: Familiarity with VisualEditor and
Wikidata; experience in an existing dictionary-building community.
- Mentors: Amir Aharoni
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Aaharoni, Kartik Mistry
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:KartikMistry
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How would such a thing interact with the wiktionary community. Would it
harvest data from them or be a sub project somehow, or is it planned to be
entirely separate?

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Introduction for OPW (Collaborative spelling dictionary building tool)

[Ankita Shukla]

Ankita Shukla ankitashukla707 at gmail.com writes:

 
 Hello everyone!
 
 I am Ankita Shukla and am a Computer Science and Engineering student 
pursuing 
 the junior year of Bachelor of Technology.
 
 I am interested in working on the project: Collaborative spelling 
dictionary 
 building tool, as given on the Featured Projects Section of MediaWiki OPW 
 page.
 
 It'd be really great if I could get some guidance through this. Also, 
since 
 the project did not seem to mention any micro-task explicitly, could 
someone 
 suggest what I could take up as a micro-task?
 I'd be really grateful for the help and support. :)
 
 Thanks in advance,
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Hi again!

I have been looking forward to your response so that I can get started on 
the code-base as soon as possible. Please suggest some micro tasks that 
would be useful for this project and help me get started with the same. 

The featured ideas page doesn't have any tracked bug for this project idea 
(Collaborative Dictionary Building Tool)


Kind regards,
Thanks,
Ankita Shukla


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[Wikitech-l] Introduction for OPW (Collaborative spelling dictionary building tool)

[Ankita Shukla]

Hello everyone!

I am Ankita Shukla and am a Computer Science and Engineering student pursuing 
the junior year of Bachelor of Technology.

I am interested in working on the project: Collaborative spelling dictionary 
building tool, as given on the Featured Projects Section of MediaWiki OPW 
page.

It'd be really great if I could get some guidance through this. Also, since 
the project did not seem to mention any micro-task explicitly, could someone 
suggest what I could take up as a micro-task?
I'd be really grateful for the help and support. :)

Thanks in advance,
Ankita Shukla


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[Wikitech-l] Introduction for OPW Round 9 (Wikimedia Identities Editor)

[Divyanshi Kathuria]

Hello Everyone, warm greetings to you all. This is Divyanshi Kathuria
and I am currently pursuing BTech 2nd Year in Computer Science
Engineering. I wish to join this community for OPW Round 9. I want to
work on 'Wikimedia Identities Editor' for OPW Round 9. Please help me
in getting started with this project. And what are the microtasks I
need to perform?
I have a basic knowlwdge of C++, Python, HTML, CSS and Django. I
worked on a Django based project in my six weeks internship.  My
preferred web stack is :
Operating System: Linux(Ubuntu)
Web server: Apache
Database: MySQL
Programming Language: Python
Web-framework: Django

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divyanshikathuria27.wordpress.com
The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.

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[Wikitech-l] Introduction - Arun

[Arun Ganesh]

Hi everyone,
I wanted to introduce myself to the community and the WMF team, I'm Arun
Ganesh (user:planemad)[1a] from Bangalore, India and have joined as
contractor for the foundation's L10n team[1b] as an Interaction designer
along with Pau to improve the user experience of language tools and
features.

I have been a longtime contributer to both commons[2] and the
openstreetmap[3] project and got involved with foundation work during the
Mumbai and Pune hackathons recently[4][5][6] where I proposed some of the
first ideas for the Universal Language Selector widget with Brandon, with
which we want to make language selection for anyone easy peasy.

Apart from that, I love cartography and maps [7], which would explain my
map contributions and the occasional headline for wikipedia [8], use only
public transport[9] and traveling with my pocket camera[10].

Its feels great to have this opportunity to work more seriously on a
project which has been an important part of my life. I'm new here, I wont
claim to know much, but I hope to make a difference in whichever way
possible. I also look forward to interacting more closely and learning from
the rest of the designers - Brandon, Heather and Pau to do the wonderful
things that designers like to do .So keep the usability bugs coming :)
-Arun

[1a] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad
[1b] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Localization_team
[2]
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~daniel/WikiSense/Gallery.php?wiki=commons.wikimedia.orgimg_user_text=Planemad
[3]
http://yosmhm.neis-one.org/?zoom=4lat=21.96627lon=81.68268layers=B0Tu=PlaneMad
[4]
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector#Arun_Ganesh.27s_Original_design
[5] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mobile_language_selector.pdf
[6]
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:L10n-ux-Universal_Language_Selector-Wireframes1.pdf
[7] http://bit.ly/timesofindia-osm
[8]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/jul/30/information-beautiful-india-cameron
[9]
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/article182223.ece
[10] http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1663025,00.html
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[Wikitech-l] introduction (community communications for Wikidata)

[Lydia Pintscher]

Hi everyone!

I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself. I'm Lydia and just
started working for Wikimedia Germany. Some of you might know me from
my work in Free Software projects.

I'll be a part of the team working on Wikidata
(http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata) - the goal of the project is
to create something similar to Wiki Commons for data). It's a huge
undertaking for the German and global community. Wikidata is a project
I am passionate about and I am even more passionate about doing it
right. Doing it right in this case obviously means making sure
everyone's input is heard and taken into consideration. My
responsibility will be exactly that - working with all of you to make
it a successful project. A lot of things concerning how, when and
where this will be used in Wikipedia are still up for discussion and
decisions need to be found in the community. I will be here to
facilitate this.

I assume many of you have not heard from me before so let me tell you
a bit about myself. I studied computer science at the Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology. There I worked on a program to plan
robot-assisted laser surgeries on human skulls and wrote my diploma
thesis on collaborative and transparent Free Software development. I'm
passionate about enabling people to make awesome happen around Free
Culture. I've spent most of my spare time in the last 7 years on
community work in KDE (http://kde.org). This includes running its
mentoring programs, co-founding its community working group, serving
on the board of the non-profit behind it and generally making sure
everything is running smoothly. I've also helped out other projects
occasionally like Kubuntu, VLC/VideoLan and openSUSE in that position.
Not long ago I released a free book called Open Advice
(http://open-advice.org) that is a collaborative effort to make it
easier for people to start contributing to Free Software. You probably
know 4 of the authors from around Wikipedia. When it comes to
MediaWiki I have done developer engagement for Semantic MediaWiki Plus
for the last two years and am on the steering committee of the
non-profit behind Semantic MediaWiki. Due to my day only having 24
hours (even if some people claim otherwise) I have not had a chance to
get into contributing to Wikipedia. Thankfully that's going to change
now. (As a very regular user: Thank you!)

For the next days/weeks my focus will be:
* collecting ideas/doubts/other input for Wikidata that you already
have for me now (I'll work through any existing discussions I can find
- if you want to make sure I see something please do send me a link.)
* creating some resources to explain the project better
* setting up some infrastructure to keep everyone updated on the
status and able to contribute
* work on collecting input in a structured manner and addressing it together

If you have any questions please let me know. I'll be around on the
English and German Wikipedia, IRC, XMPP, Skype or whatever else you
prefer ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lydia_Pintscher_(WMDE) ).
You can subscribe to the Wikidata mailing list at
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l and join the
IRC channel #wikimedia-wikidata on freenode.


Cheers
Lydia, who is really looking forward to working with you

-- 
Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Community Communications for Wikidata

Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Eisenacher Straße 2
10777 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de

Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.

Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das
Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] introduction (community communications for Wikidata)

[asha...@wikimedia.org]

Welcome Lydia!  Happy to see you on doing great work for Wiki Data @WMDE.

Best
Alolita

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From: Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de
To: foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org, wikidat...@lists.wikimedia.org, 
wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikitech-l] introduction (community communications for Wikidata)
Date: Fri, Mar 9, 2012 9:13 am


Hi everyone!

I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself. I'm Lydia and just
started working for Wikimedia Germany. Some of you might know me from
my work in Free Software projects.

I'll be a part of the team working on Wikidata
(http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata) - the goal of the project is
to create something similar to Wiki Commons for data). It's a huge
undertaking for the German and global community. Wikidata is a project
I am passionate about and I am even more passionate about doing it
right. Doing it right in this case obviously means making sure
everyone's input is heard and taken into consideration. My
responsibility will be exactly that - working with all of you to make
it a successful project. A lot of things concerning how, when and
where this will be used in Wikipedia are still up for discussion and
decisions need to be found in the community. I will be here to
facilitate this.

I assume many of you have not heard from me before so let me tell you
a bit about myself. I studied computer science at the Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology. There I worked on a program to plan
robot-assisted laser surgeries on human skulls and wrote my diploma
thesis on collaborative and transparent Free Software development. I'm
passionate about enabling people to make awesome happen around Free
Culture. I've spent most of my spare time in the last 7 years on
community work in KDE (http://kde.org). This includes running its
mentoring programs, co-founding its community working group, serving
on the board of the non-profit behind it and generally making sure
everything is running smoothly. I've also helped out other projects
occasionally like Kubuntu, VLC/VideoLan and openSUSE in that position.
Not long ago I released a free book called Open Advice
(http://open-advice.org) that is a collaborative effort to make it
easier for people to start contributing to Free Software. You probably
know 4 of the authors from around Wikipedia. When it comes to
MediaWiki I have done developer engagement for Semantic MediaWiki Plus
for the last two years and am on the steering committee of the
non-profit behind Semantic MediaWiki. Due to my day only having 24
hours (even if some people claim otherwise) I have not had a chance to
get into contributing to Wikipedia. Thankfully that's going to change
now. (As a very regular user: Thank you!)

For the next days/weeks my focus will be:
* collecting ideas/doubts/other input for Wikidata that you already
have for me now (I'll work through any existing discussions I can find
- if you want to make sure I see something please do send me a link.)
* creating some resources to explain the project better
* setting up some infrastructure to keep everyone updated on the
status and able to contribute
* work on collecting input in a structured manner and addressing it together

If you have any questions please let me know. I'll be around on the
English and German Wikipedia, IRC, XMPP, Skype or whatever else you
prefer ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lydia_Pintscher_(WMDE) ).
You can subscribe to the Wikidata mailing list at
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l and join the
IRC channel #wikimedia-wikidata on freenode.


Cheers
Lydia, who is really looking forward to working with you

-- 
Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Community Communications for Wikidata

Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Eisenacher Straße 2
10777 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de

Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.

Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das
Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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