*Forwarded as received*
Hi everyone,
The Wikimedia Foundation is asking for your feedback in a 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
affect the current and future work of the Wikimedia Foundation.
If you are 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 20 and 40 minutes to complete.
*Follow this link to the Survey:*
https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5ABs6WwrDHzAeLr?aud=DEV
If you have already seen a similar message on Phabricator, Mediawiki.org,
Discourse, or other platforms for volunteer developers, please don't take
the survey twice.
You can find more information about this survey on the project page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_Insights/About_CE_>
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
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_
Insights_2018_Survey_Privacy_Statement>.
Please visit our frequently asked questions page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_
Insights/Frequently_asked_questions>
to find more information about this survey.
Feel free to email me directly with any questions you may have.
Thank you!
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Sorry for cross-posting!
Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **today, Wednesday 3-4 pm
UTC** on #wikimedia-tech.
The Technical Advice IRC meeting is open for all volunteer developers,
topics and questions. 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!
Michi (for WMDE’s tech team)
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Michael F. Schönitzer
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
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 27/681/51985.
Dear all,
Just to remind you of our IRC meeting that will hold in less than 10
minutes from now.
join us on #wikimedia-dev-africa on freenode.
waiting to see you all.
*AWMD Core Team*
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Perside Rosalie
[image: https://]about.me/perside
<https://about.me/perside?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=emai…>
Hello all,
We are pleased to remind you of our next IRC meeting which will take place
today.
*From: 4pm - 5:30pm UTC*
*When: Today, 30th March, 2018*
*Where: #wikimedia-dev-africa* on Freenode
Check out the meeting agenda here
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185803>
A lot of interesting topics will be addressed and you will be able to
expose any of your worries related to AWMD. Looking forward to seeing you
all on IRC in less than 4 hours from now.
Best,
*AWMD Core Team*
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Perside Rosalie
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<https://about.me/perside?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=emai…>
Hello all,
If you have successfully applied for GSoC then you must be aware that
results for accepted proposals will be announced April 23rd. Asking
yourself what to do between now and then? Good.
1. Make a few more research on your project topic.
2. Get in touch with your mentors on IRC and try to ask as many
questions as you need to understand your project more.
3. Keep working on micro tasks and making patches.
4. Make sure you don't stay back and just wait. Do something
This is the period mentors make a choice. So, please prove your worth.
All the best,
*AWMD Core Team*
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Perside Rosalie
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<https://about.me/perside?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=emai…>
Hello all,
This is just a kind reminder for those of you interested in applying for
Google Summer of Code 2018. We are 20 hours close to application dateline.
Remember after creating a draft proposal on phabricator, you still need to
import it to a google docs, finalize it depending on reviews from mentors
and submit a link and PDF of it on *GSoC site
<https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/> *along side a proof of enrollment.
Feel free to reply to this mail with any question and good luck to all
applicants.
Best,
*AWMD Core Team*
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Chris Koerner <ckoerner(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 11:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Women Tech Storm
To: Coordination of technology deployments across languages/projects <
wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Michelle,
I just posted this news on the MediaWiki social media accounts.
https://www.facebook.com/MediaWikiProject/posts/1658967814197927https://twitter.com/mediawiki/status/978313433451057157
I have these messages scheduled to post again on Friday, at Noon CEST.
I hope that helps and good luck with the event.
Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison
Wikimedia Foundation
On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 12:36 PM, Michelle Boon <boon(a)wikimedia.nl> wrote:
> Dear sir, madam
>
>
> Wikimedia Nederland is organizing her very first Women Tech Storm.
>
> This event is a small female-only hackathon. It is also open for
non-binary
> people. It will be held in The Hague from 10-12 May 2018.
>
> It will be an extended weekend filled with hacking together with other
> interested developers.
>
>
> The Hackathon has two targeted groups. One group exists of female and
> non-binary developers with some experience programming outside Wikimedia
and
> who would like to learn Wikimedia coding. The other group consists of
women
> and non-binary people who are already acquainted with Wikimedia projects
and
> are interested in learning the coding side of the projects. You can learn
> how to make a query with SPARQL or learn to master Python.
>
>
> The Women Tech Storm - part I will be followed by Part II. This event will
> be in October/November and is open for all genders.
>
>
> Participation is free of charge and it includes entrance, meals and hotel:
> we ask of people participating to join us in Part II.
>
>
> Please see the registration form or our page on mediawiki.org for more
> information.
>
> If you have any questions, please email to Hackathon(a)wikimedia.nl
>
>
> On behalf of the work group,
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Michelle Boon
> Event Organiser & Community Support
> Wikimedia Nederland
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list
> Wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
>
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https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
Hello Everyone!
Hope we're all doing great? Africa Wikimedia Developers is a group now on
the Wikimedia Resource Center (WRC)
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Resource_Center>[1], you can see
that here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Connect/Africa_Wikimedia_Developers. There
are a lot of things you can do with this group;
* We can ask our questions and expect to get an answer and the list of
questions will be available for others to read.
* We can connect with other Wikimedians and work together on what interest
us (individually).
* Hey, writing on Meta (there on the group) also increases your edit count
on the wiki :D.
Feel free to reach us on WRC Connect[2] with your questions anytime and
we'll do our best to help you out. Also we'll build these conversations as
time goes so that we use the information in the future to help the younger
generation.
*NOTE:*
When trying to make contact to ask questions, check the best possible
platform in order to get your questions answered on time and in the best
possible way, see below;
* Mailing List
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedia-developers>
: Maybe quick but generally slow but very reliable as someone will see and
definitely answer but the questions are not searchable after a while and
may get lost.
* IRC : Quick but not very reliable as people may be away and you may also
leave IRC when someone answers the question so you would not see the
response. But this place is best for holding meetings where everyone is
available at a particular time :)
* Wikimedia Developer Support <https://discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org/> :
I believe in this platform and it's reliable. Also, the questions can be
used by others in the future as reference so (very recommended).
* AWMD Group on WRC
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Connect/Africa_Wikimedia_Developers> :
Quick and reliable as I'm watching that page and will always give feedback
to any questions that come in. This is a focused group so if there is
anything related to AWMD, ask here and if it's Developer related, ask on
the Wikimedia Developer Support :)
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Resource_Center
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Connect
*Kind regards,*
*Volunteer Developer @ Wikimedia*
*Technical Lead, Africa Wikimedia Developers*
*More Info: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Alangi_Derick
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Alangi_Derick>*
This article has to be a developer's heaven I suggest you guys check it out as it has many cheatsheets
The best front-end hacking cheatsheets — all in one place. by Indrek Lasn
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Zppix
Volunteer Wikimedia Developer
Africa Wikimedia Developers Member and Mentor
enwp.org/User:Zppix
**Note: I do not work for Wikimedia Foundation, or any of its chapters.**