Thanks to Arthur, Andrew, Ryan Lane, &c. for getting to this question
before me! :-) Andrew, could you give a link to your "old presentation
about MediaWiki itself" even though "it's a bit nitty-gritty"?
Thanks, Ryan Kaldari, for doing this intro. We attempt to amass
slidesets on
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Presentations . And I
try to link all the stuff you'll need at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker . If
you're running an event you may want to check
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Volunteer_coordination_and_outreach/Event_pl…
for a quick checklist.
OpenHatch is also rather a gold mine.
I recommend to your attention these hands-on workshop syllabi, in
addition to the extension-writing tutorial that Arthur wrote:
*
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gadget_kitchen/Training for customizing
any wiki via Javascript user scripts & Gadgets
*
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Localisation/Tutorial for using and
improving our localisation tools
*
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Tutorial for using our web API and
integrating Wikimedia content into one's app of choice
*
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile/PhoneGap/Tutorial for building
the Wikipedia Android app
And three leaflets:
*
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MediaWiki_flyer_2012.svg
*
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MediaWiki_flyer_student2012.svg
*
https://google-summer-of-code.googlecode.com/files/GSoC2012Flyer.pdf
Ryan, if you can arrange to get a recording of your talk, that would be
lovely.
Thanks for doing this!
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
On 02/16/2012 12:54 PM, Arthur Richards wrote:
For the hackathon in Pune, I prepared an 'intro to
hacking mediawiki'
tutorial for novices. There are a few mistakes in the tutorial, feel free
to adjust as needed:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker/Extension_W…
Also, Sumana prepared a 'How to become a Mediawiki Hacker' workshop,
outlined here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker/Workshop
Arthur
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Ryan Lane <rlane32(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I've given a few talks on this at random places. Slides are up on
> wikitech in PDF form, and on my blog in ODF format:
>
>
>
http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/index.php?title=File:Ryan_Lane_-_How_to_be_a_…
>
>
>
http://ryandlane.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/How-to-be-a-part-of-th…
>
> The ODF version has full notes, if you switch to notes view.
>
> - Ryan
>
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>> Hey guys,
>> I'm going to be giving a presentation next month at the University of
> Chile
>> to their incoming freshman CS students on how to get started with
> volunteer
>> open source software development and specifically MediaWiki development.
> If
>> anyone has material that would be useful for such a presentation (slides,
>> charts, documentation, funny pictures, etc.), please let me know.
>>
>> Things I'm hoping to incorporate already:
>>
http://openhatch.org/ (lots of good newbie resources)
>>
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker (intro
>> documentation)
>>
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_little_bugs (good places to
> start)
>> Sumana (human interface)
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Ryan Kaldari