If you're interested in Wikimedia's infrastructure, or in making it easier to develop MediaWiki and extensions, gadgets, and tools, please come to the Wikimedia and MediaWiki hackathon happening 14-16 October in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/NOLA_Hackathon
We're getting together a wide variety of contributors -- including tool, extension, and gadget writers -- to participate, give feedback, test, and hack together.
At the event, MediaWiki developers and Wikimedia operations engineers will be working on Wikimedia's gadgets/extensions/tools support, authorization/authentication strategy, dev-ops virtualization, and general training and hacking. And we'll improve and discuss the Wikimedia Labs projects infrastructure
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Projects/Wikimedia_Labs
and other stuff that makes it easier for anyone to supercharge Wikimedia with awesomeness.
The event is open to anyone who wants to come and contribute.
If you can make it to New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 14-16 October 2011, we'd love to have you. Please add your name to the attendees list:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/NOLA_Hackathon#Attendees
(And please spread the word!)
Hey, a quick reminder: The New Orleans developers' days for Wikimedia & MediaWiki are this weekend!
In the late morning on Saturday, Roan Kattouw will lead a workshop for developers to teach them how to hack MediaWiki -- MediaWiki's overall architecture and ways to mod it, from site preferences to gadgets to extensions. Attendees will learn how to customize MediaWiki using CSS, JavaScript, and PHP. This is based on a previous workshop we gave: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker/Workshop
Tentatively scheduled for midday Sunday is Chad Horohoe's testing training - a lecture on how to write tests, walking attendees through the documentation and teaching them how to run tests. He writes:
"I'll find a simple function we still need a test for, and use it as an example. I'll briefly touch on setting up phpunit (with the caveat that *sometimes* it's harder than it should be, so ask if you need extra help). Then dive into how to write the test."
You can just drop in for either of those, or come for more of the weekend. And it's free to attend - no admission fee.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/NOLA_Hackathon
Hope you, or people you know, can come. Thanks!
Am 11.10.2011 16:13, schrieb Sumana Harihareswara:
Hey, a quick reminder: The New Orleans developers' days for Wikimedia & MediaWiki are this weekend!
Hi Sumana,
just again as a tip for the Newcomers' workshop:
there's the MediaWiki Virtual Library http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MVL with currently four up-to-date books:
mwbook #01 MediaWiki Developer's Guide MDG PDF 222 3.5 MB first book on MediaWiki; for newbies and experienced programmers mwbook #02 MediaWiki Security Guide MSG PDF 24 0.2 MB what you need to know about security issues and best practices mwbook #03 MediaWiki Interwiki and Interlanguage Guide MIG PDF 19 0.5 MB how to efficiently link pages between wikis and projects mwbook #04 MediaWiki Developer's Style Guide MST PDF 23 1.6 MB how to..
The most important is of course the MW Developer's Guide http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MDG
Everyone is welcome to improve (my) selection of pertinent pages (articles) in these "books", ( but I also try to keep the selection as current as possible as one can see )
N'awlinz: wish to be there....
Tom
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