> 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. >
It's also a good opportunity for people to get familiar with Labs, and maybe help out with a current project that does something MediaWiki related. > I expect that we'll get a lot of people with some PHP experience but who > have little experience with, say, Git and Gerrit. > Getting enough of the basics of Git/Gerrit to push in code is easy enough that people can really focus more on coding. > 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. > Don't forget about opportunities for volunteer operations work as well. People don't necessarily need to hack on MediaWiki. If they want to fix operations things, that's doable as well. - Ryan _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
