Very fair point! Last year, we had people with such varied skills that
we offered three projects:
- Easy: Editing Wikipedia and Wikiquote for the first time
- Medium: Customizing your Wikipedia experience with JavaScript and CSS
- Challenging: Creating your first patch & learning to use Git
People who edited for the first time had a reasonably rewarding time but
wanted more interesting tasks once they got the hang of it; this year we
can use GuidedTour and we can check
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/ for a
better structure. A few people liked the medium and challenging tasks,
but they got stuck a lot, and I don't think we got much followup. So
this year I'd be interested in helping intermediate and advanced folks
code up simple bots so they can see how to play with our API. That seems
more likely to be a skill they can use in the long term, and we have API
and pywikipedia tutorials to use.
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
On 09/03/2013 05:09 PM, Leslie Carr wrote:
As someone who attended this last year, I think that
having a specific
small project/goal in mind would be very helpful -- many attendees
seemed to enjoy the projects where they could show off what they did
in the end.
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Sumana Harihareswara
<sumanah(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
http://gracehopper.org/2013/conference/grace-hopper-open-source-day/
>
> "The purpose of Grace Hopper Open Source Day is to give attendees of the
> conference and some of our friends from local universities the
> opportunity to code, network and contribute to the greater social good."
>
> I was going to lead this. But if possible, I'd like to concentrate on my
> sabbatical and give someone else a chance to guide these folks (mostly
> women who are studying computer science as grad students or
> undergraduates). I can give you instructions and task lists for how to
> help these MediaWiki/Wikimedia newbies started. And WMF can pay for you
> to get to Minneapolis and stay overnight for a few nights. (The closer
> you are, the better.)
>
> Can you help?
>
> I'd like to get this taken care of by the end of this Friday; please
> email me off-list if you're interested. Thanks.
> --
> Sumana Harihareswara
> Engineering Community Manager
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
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