On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:13 AM, Asheesh Laroia <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey all wikitech peeps, > > In helping organize the upcoming Wikimania DC Hackathon, I wanted > to ask if there are particular categories of work that people with > fairly limited experience could do that would have a meaningful impact. > > For example: > > * Updating extensions to work with the latest version of MediaWiki > > * Testing extensions so that we can update mediawiki.org pages about > the extension's compatibility with different MediaWiki revisions > > * Converting user scripts into Gadgets > > * Convert templates into Lua (but seems lower-impact than some of > the above because Lua scripts aren't deployed very many places yet) > > * (Only applicable to attendees who mntain an extension) Teaching > maintainers how to move extensions from the wiki into things that > live in Git and are updated through Gerrit > > I'm especially interested in tasks where there's a lot of work to do -- > that way, people can be given lots of hands-on things to do that can > provide practice to help people be more comfortable with tools like git > and gerrit, or more comfortable with the MediaWiki hooks, or where the > task gives people a reason to install MediaWiki on their own machine. > Additionally, it's important the task meaningfully contributes to the > project, so people feel the value of what they're doing. > > I expect that we'll get a lot of people with some PHP experience but who > have little experience with, say, Git and Gerrit. > > Also, if you'll be at the Wikimania DC 2012 Hackathon and want to help > mentor people through any of these, reply as well. > > Other ideas welcome. I'll be collating these over the next few days, > and then trying to pick the ones with the highest probable impact based > on the attendees. One warning: this is intended just as a research > question for now. I can't promise that I'll focus a portion of the > hackathon on your particular suggestion. But I do aim to stay in touch > as the planning progresses. > > -- Asheesh. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > Since you mentioned "Updating extensions to work with the latest version of MediaWiki " I think writing unit tests for extensions could be very useful and fairly easy to learn. -- Cheers, Nischay Nahata http://nischayn22.in _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
