Hi Harsh,
On 02/17/2014 08:46 AM, Harsh Kothari wrote:
Hi
Understanding how to contribute in MediaWiki is essential to new bees. Here is the MediaWiki page : https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute
I found very interesting thing for Mozilla : http://www.whatcanidoformozilla.org/
This is very useful stuff with localised in many languages.
Can we do the same thing by converting our How to contribute page into some interesting way and user friendly so that new contributors may find very easy way to kick start.
Two ideas there
Create Extension
Separate Website (I guess Yuvi has already bought Domain
whatcanidoforwikimedia)
3. Guided Tours
See the long discussion we had some time ago at http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-April/068166.html
If this idea is good then it may become GSOC project.
It is an interesting project for a newcomer, yes. However, regardless of the technical approach it requires more copy writing and design than coding. I don't think it qualifies as a GSoC project, but it could be an OPW candidate, especially if we include polishing the landing pages we point to with such tool/site.