You could look into these two resources:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/Handbook

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2017/Participants#Three_S...

There are toolkits on some technical topics (that are in your list) here:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Small_wiki_toolkits

Good luck with the Hackathon :)

Cheers, Srishti *Srishti Sethi* Developer Advocate Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org/

On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 5:03 PM Shrinivasan T tshrinivasan@gmail.com wrote:

Hello all,

We are planning on a India Hackathon.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/India_Hackathon_2020

To bring new developers and train them, looking for a developer guide or handbook/beginners guide.

Do we any such starters guide?

I think the below topics would be nice to be covered on the handbook.

If no such hand book, shall we create one? Will be useful ?

Topics to be covered :

Intro Setup User creation User types Name space Admin rights Bot access

Pages create/edit/delete Category create/edit/delete Page Talk page

Preference Gadget Widget Common.js

Api

Paws Tool server Become Ssh keys Cron Host web apps

SQL dump access SQL access SQL structure Daily dump access

Wikidata api Sparql Wikidata tools

Pywikibot Wiki old module

Phabricator Asking for help Docs Mailing list Irc Telegram groups

Oauth Auth APIs Pagination in results

Linking pages to wikidata Linking to other language site pages

Test wiki site to play around

Auto Wiki Browser Tools repo.

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What other topics can be added?

Share your thoughts.

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