Cool idea. I'd be in. Mark --- Robin Shannon robin.shannon@gmail.com wrote:
Count me in for learning PHP in a group. I'd love to contribute but dont have the skills... yet. Anyone else?
[[User:The bellman]] rjs
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 00:13:36 -0500 (EST), Shaun MacPherson shaun_macpherson2001@yahoo.ca wrote:
--- Tim Starling
t.starling@physics.unimelb.edu.au
wrote:
Matt R wrote:
--- Tim Starling wrote:
Unfortunately it seems most programmers on
Wikipedia would rather think
of excuses, complain about the lack of
progress
and file bug reports.
There's an unfortunate tendency on Wikipedia
to
suppose that if you identify a
problem that you can fix, then you have an
obligation to fix it. Even if you
have the capability, there is no moral
imperative
for volunteers to do anything
at all on Wikipedia, and documenting a problem
is
already a positive
contribution, albeit a comparatively minor
one. Of
course, to grumble or whine
about a problem that you've identified is
churlish, as you have no right to
expect that others fix things on your behalf.
But to get to the point: I'm very grateful to
the
developers. I would quite
like to hack on Mediawiki myself some day, but
right now I prefer to spend my
time contributing to the content of articles
--
this is not an *excuse*; this
is a choice, and I (only mildly!) resent any
such
implication.
I'm sorry if I caused offence, I just wanted to impress on everyone that Wikipedia has barely any developers. If you're
ever
wondering why some feature hasn't been written yet, it's because there's been no-one around to write it. Most of the active developers seem
to
be more interested writing features for a general audience than for Wikimedia projects. There's more editors on the Old English
Wikipedia
than there are developers overall. Maybe Matt doesn't want to
help,
and that's fine. I get the feeling Gerrit doesn't either. But is
there
anyone? Every second Wikipedian seems to know a programming language.
We
just need, say, two or three developers willing to put in a few
hours
per week.
-- Tim Starling
I currently have some time on my hands and I'd
love to
be able to learn how to contribute. What do you
need
exactly, only people who know PHP?
I little about PHP but I would be willing to learn from scratch :). Hopefully there are other people
who
want to learn, we can form a little group and go though a few tutorials. This way people who know
PHP
could help multiple people at once learn saving
time.
How long would you guess it take before a person
would
learn enough PHP to be useful on MediaWiki?
ShaunMacPherson
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