Hi Harsh,
On 02/17/2014 08:46 AM, Harsh Kothari wrote:
Hi
Understanding how to contribute in MediaWiki is essential to new bees.
Here is the MediaWiki page
:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute
I found very interesting thing for Mozilla
:
http://www.whatcanidoformozilla.org/
This is very useful stuff with localised in many languages.
Can we do the same thing by converting our How to contribute page into
some interesting way and user friendly so that new contributors may find
very easy way to kick start.
Two ideas there
1. Create Extension
2. Separate Website (I guess Yuvi has already bought Domain
whatcanidoforwikimedia)
3. Guided Tours
See the long discussion we had some time ago at
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-April/068166.html
If this idea is good then it may become GSOC project.
It is an interesting project for a newcomer, yes. However, regardless of
the technical approach it requires more copy writing and design than
coding. I don't think it qualifies as a GSoC project, but it could be an
OPW candidate, especially if we include polishing the landing pages we
point to with such tool/site.
--
Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil