Greetings from CIS-A2K,

MediaWiki Training 2019 (MWT2019) will take place on 7-9 June at Bangalore. MWT2019 will be a residential workshop where topics related to MediaWiki, Toolforge will be discussed. Earlier MWT iterations were conducted in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. MWT2019 participation will be an invitation-based. The invitation will be sent to MediaWikians who are working on Phabricator, Gerrit and Extensions creation.  For more information, you can look at -  https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/MediaWiki_Training/2019

Last year Tony Thomas was the primary trainer. This year Jay Prakash will lead the training, and Srishti Sethi is helping in the planning, participation selection, program structuring. 

If any community members from India, who are working on MediaWiki, would like to part in this year MWT please write an email to tito+mwt2019@gmail.com answering the following questions. Detailed answers, and links (wherever applicable) will be helpful.
  • Please tell your contribution related to MediaWiki and Wiki-technical topics
  • Please also let us know some of the areas you want to learn during the workshop.
  • It is desired that the participants utilise their learning in future to improve different projects, hence, please let us know some of the future tasks or activities you expect to do after this workshop training. 
The last date of showing interest to participate is 31 May 2019.

Thanks and Regards,


ANANTH SUBRAY P V

Programme Associate at The Centre for Internet & Society

Secretary of Wikipedia & Education User Group

Co-founder of Lakshya

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