Hi Tambe,
First of all, welcome to Wikimedia. If you are having trouble using
Toolforge you can ask about your specific issue, the good thing about
toolforge is that you can run long jobs (often required when working with
large data) in grid
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Grid>. Otherwise, you
can consider using PAWS <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/PAWS> which is
a jupyter notebook environment and you can also access various databases
from here as is.
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 10:29 PM Tambe Tabitha <tambetachere(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Greetings,
My name is Tambe Tabitha Achere and I just got a Bachelor of Engineering
in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and I am pursuing a career in
Data Science. I am Cameroonian.
I learnt how to code and Data science using books, videos and online
tutorials. I code in Python. I know SQL too.
I think contributing to opensource and the exposure it gives me will be a
good test of my knowledge. However, I tried contributing earlier and I was
a little confused with how to use toolforge and how to get datasets from
the dumps into analysis-friendly structures like Pandas Dataframes.
Are there areas of the codebase that needs analytical skills which I can
contribute to which don't initially require a lot of knowledge about
mediawiki customized tools? This will give me a softer landing as I start
to contribute again.
Please let me know if there are any issues or projects you recommend.
Best regards,
Tambe Tabitha Achere.
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