Hi,

My name is Travis Briggs and I'm a software developer who currently works at Google in California. I've always had a soft spot for Wikipedia and wondered how I could get more involved and contribute more. Today, I was thinking about how it's a shame that Media Wiki is written in PHP, as that is a language that I'm not really interested in hacking on in my spare time. Then I found pywikibot. Python is probably the language I have the most current experience in, besides maybe Javascript, and I'm familiar with web API usages.

All this to say, I'd like to see if I can help out on the pywikibot project itself, though I don't have a specific wiki that I work on or a specific bot that I'd like to write.

I've gotten as far as installing a vagrant instance of Media Wiki and cloning the "core" branch of pywikibot, though I haven't gotten them talking to each other just yet.

Thanks!

-Travis