*Forwarded as received*
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Hey folks, I'm helping Rebecca Maung (rmaung(a)wikimedia.org) distribute this
request. Her words below:
The Wikimedia Foundation is asking for your feedback in the annual
Community Insights survey. We want to know how well we are supporting your
work on- and off-wiki, and how we can change or improve things in the
future. The opinions you share will directly affect the current and future
work of the Wikimedia Foundation.
If you are a volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces
of MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools, please complete the survey. It is
available in various languages and will take between 15 and 25 minutes to
complete.
Follow this link to the survey:
https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0pSrrkJAKVRXPpj?Target=dev
If you have seen a similar message elsewhere and have already taken the
Community Insights survey, please do not take it twice.
You can find more information about this survey on the project page and see
how your feedback helps the Wikimedia Foundation support contributors like
you. This survey is hosted by a third-party service and governed by this
privacy statement. Please visit our frequently asked questions page to find
more information about this survey.
If you need additional help, send an email to surveys(a)wikimedia.org.
Thank you!
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Sorry for cross-posting!
Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting this week **Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC**
on #wikimedia-tech.
Questions can be asked in English, Persian, Spanish!
The Technical Advice IRC Meeting (TAIM) is a weekly support event for
volunteer developers. Every Wednesday, two full-time developers are
available to help you with all your questions about MediaWiki, gadgets,
tools and more! This can be anything from "how to get started" over "who
would be the best contact for X" to specific questions on your project.
If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your
topic to the next meeting:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting
Hope to see you there!
--
Raz Shuty
Engineering Manager
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0
https://wikimedia.de
Imagine a world, in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. That‘s our commitment.
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
Dear developers,
Hope we are all doing well. On behalf of the AWMD core team, I wish to
thank you all for your contributions on answering the survey. I am mostly
happy because the greatest participation was from the ladies👯. (No hard
feeling guys but such results are rare in tech🙂).
- More than 60% participation from AWMD countries in Africa
- 80% of response were from female.
- 70% of response were from people who Averagely attend IRC meetings.
- 60% find IRC meetings useful
- 80% find the IRC tool useful to developers
- 70% agreed on having more meetings centered around helping others with
tasks and getting started
- 70% agreed they will regularly attend the meetings if it is centered
on solving issues rather than addressing agenda points. the remaining 30%
reacted with *maybe.*
*To be considered.*
1. We received a lot of complains mostly from beginners about IRC tool
not being friendly
2. A few other comments show that some of you don't know how exactly you
should or can contribute.
3. Two comments about not being aware of meeting times and one complain
on the chosen meeting time.
*What we are suggesting and will be trying soon:*
we decided to introduce some regular meeting day twice a months, meant at
fixing working in group remotely, debugging and fixing issues, this
includes helping beginners with simple issues. attendance is optional. You
may attend if you feel you can be helpful or if you have questions to
expose or need some help related to code contributions to MediaWiki.
*Action points*
1. Meeting every second and third Saturday of the month. From 1pm to 6pm
the floor is open for any help requests and questions. You are sure to meet
people who can help then. (The name of the meeting is still to be chosen,
we welcome suggestions e.g *AwmdDebugTime* ?)
2. IRC meetings will be once in 3 month, 2nd Friday of the 3rd month,
5pm-6pmUTC.
3. You can also request for a hangout call in case you think it will
make things easier for you. You can send me a direct mail and we will make
it happen for you.
4. Apart from meeting times you can always hang around on
*#wikimedia-dev-Africa*.
We are still looking into changing the meeting tool (IRC to Slack?) but
for now we will keep it till further notice.
Feel free to directly reply to this mail with your questions.
Sorry for the long email ;)
Have a great week
Best regards,
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Perside Rosalie
about.me/perside
<https://about.me/perside?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=emai…>
Sorry for cross-posting!
Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting this week **Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC**
on #wikimedia-tech.
Questions can be asked in English!
The Technical Advice IRC Meeting (TAIM) is a weekly support event for
volunteer developers. Every Wednesday, two full-time developers are
available to help you with all your questions about MediaWiki, gadgets,
tools and more! This can be anything from "how to get started" over "who
would be the best contact for X" to specific questions on your project.
If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your
topic to the next meeting:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting
Hope to see you there!
--
Raz Shuty
Engineering Manager
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0
https://wikimedia.de
Imagine a world, in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. That‘s our commitment.
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.