Hi Andrew,
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 5:00 PM, Andrew Lih andrew.lih@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a wiki page that acts as a first stop or landing page for computer science students who might be interested in working on coding projects with Wikipedia/Wikimedia projects?
We have a page on Wikipedia greeting students/instructors who want to do class projects related to *writing* articles, but do we have a similar thing for CS instructors and students who might want to do an assignment or class project with Mediawiki, APIs, or with database dumps?
If anyone could point me to the best of what we have now, that’d be great. This would be a way to find “shovel ready” challenges for students to work on, or contribute to projects in progress.
For what is worth, all Wikimedia wikis have a "Developers" link in the footer that points to
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute
That page features a first link to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Starter_kit and different sections for types of technical contributions, each of them pointing to a specialized landing page.
I wish we had a clearer path for newcomers. The https://mediawiki.org homepage should provide a clear answer to the expected question you ask. The diversity of replies you got shows the dimension of the prob... of the opportunity ;) we have.