On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 3:42 AM, Ty Landercasper wiki.nospam@ibudesigns.com wrote:
I'm a self employed programmer who's taking a bit of time off from his
current project as a way to gain some fresh perspective and I thought I'd use that free time to help out a community I really appreciate. Wikipedia is one of the best things the internet has to offer and it has certainly helped me out a bunch of times, so it seemed like the place to volunteer.
Welcome ;-)
I was wondering if someone there is willing to play the role of onboarding
manager. You know, show me the ropes, assign some good relevant tasks to get a feel for things, the standard stuff. I'd really appreciate it, and I know I can contribute a lot to the community once I get on my feet.
If you want to play with Python, on the Pywikibot project, I am happy to act as onboarding manager for a while. It will be a softer landing that will at least bring you up to speed with the Wikimedia development environment, and you'll be playing with the MediaWiki API in no time at all. Drop into IRC FreeNode #pywikibot, or shoot me an email if interested.
As for my skill set, while I don't have a lot of experience with PHP, I do
have a lot of experience with just about everything else. I've done game development, ...
I saw game development a few times in your profile.
We have a few 'gamification' projects that you may be interested in helping with, of which this is probably the best
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:The_Game
Other than the Android app, here are some C++ projects that are in the Wikimedia family that you might like to investigate a little: https://github.com/wikimedia/varnishkafka https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-php-luasandbox https://github.com/wikimedia-incubator/libcidr https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix https://bitbucket.org/magnusmanske/petscan https://github.com/google/primarysources https://github.com/DamianZaremba/cluebotng
While not quite in the Wikimedia family, a lot of Wikisource is built using scanning tools https://github.com/scantailor/scantailor https://github.com/DIYBookScanner/spreads
There are also C++ projects used by Wikimedia that have bugs/missing features, e.g.
https://github.com/scylladb/scylla/issues/414 https://github.com/scylladb/scylla/issues/511 https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/issues/6497 https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/issues/6206 (and probably many more in hhvm) https://github.com/gdnsd/gdnsd/issues/111 https://github.com/varnishcache/varnish-cache/issues/1955
-- John Vandenberg