At the Wikimania Developer Days this week, several developers led a
workshop for MediaWiki beginners, and a code review training covering
our coding standards. First-draft notes for both are up:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker/Workshop
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_review_management/Aug_2011_training
and I intend on improving them into a more productized curriculum for
future hackathons.
Thanks to Guillaume Paumier and to Waldir Pimenta for many of those
notes, to Roan Kattouw, Timo Tijhof, Andrew Garrett, Brion Vibber, Tim
Starling, Brandon Harris, and other developers for teaching, to Amir
Aharoni for initiating the idea of the beginners' workshop, and to
Florian Hackenberger for volunteering to have Tim Starling review his
code live & onstage.
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Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation