Hi , Hope you are doing well. I want to discuss my preparation for Gsoc-2017 in Wikimedia. I am very new to this organization and I am facing a lot of difficulties in getting Wikimedia workflow. 1. I have done open source contributions in past and what I have seen is - They have their repositories on GitHub and issues related to that repo. For preparing to contribute, we just had to fork their repo and send a pull request after resolving the issue. But in Wikipedia, there is a lot of hassle(phabricator, gerrit and all). 2. For the preparation of GSoC, we need to choose an idea from the idea page. Can you please help me in choosing the project? I am doing android app developement since 3 years. So I think android related tasks would be easy for me to get started. Could Someone help me for getting started in android? 3. What are the other things that happen apart from GSoC(In case if I wish to contribute even after Gsoc. How is the culture of this community? 4. I am not facing a lot of difficulties in IRC. Sometimes I don't get the reply, sometimes my nickname is unavailable if I get offline for some time and it is not very friendly. Could somebody help me in IRC. I am using mac. My nickname is *mayank_dev*
I apologize for my long email. But I am facing a lot of difficulties in the community.
Thanks.
On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 7:36 PM, Andre Klapper aklapper@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Wed, 2016-08-24 at 22:39 +0530, MAYANK JINDAL wrote:
My name is Mayank Jindal. I am third year undergraduate studentcurrently studying at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. I want to take part in Gsoc-2017 from Wikimedia. I have knowledge of C, C++, JAVA, Python, Android app development and Web development and beginner in *Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence.* I am very enthusiastic to learn new skills which would be required.
Thanks for your early interest. Glad to hear you'd like to get involved!
Regarding machine learning, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Objective_Revision_Evaluation_Service might be interesting? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Revision_scoring_as_a_service lists mailing list and IRC channel contact information.
We don't have any information about GSoC 2017 yet but you could get an impression by looking at the page for GSoC 2016 at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016 and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_programs for general info on workflows and expectations for GSoC, Outreachy and other programs.
About technical contributions in general, have you taken a look at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker already? It explains how to set up your testing environment, how to find good "easy" tasks to start with, how to check out code via Git, how to submit patches via Gerrit, recommendations for communication, and best places where to ask any questions you might have.
Hope that helps for the start? If not, tell us!
Looking forward to your contributions! :)
andre
Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/