Hi all,
I am Egbe Eugene. I come from Cameroon and i am quite new to the movement as a developer. My thought towards contributing to the community is driven by the impact which the foundation could bring to my country and Africa and also what i will do in order that the movement be heard around the ends of my country.
I will also wish to enhance my engineering skills while contributing to the movement by working on the foundation's projects.
Hope to get more help to get started soonest.
Thanks EEA
On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 2:41 PM, Egbe Eugene agboreugene@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I am Egbe Eugene. I come from Cameroon and i am quite new to the movement as a developer. My thought towards contributing to the community is driven by the impact which the foundation could bring to my country and Africa and also what i will do in order that the movement be heard around the ends of my country.
I will also wish to enhance my engineering skills while contributing to the movement by working on the foundation's projects.
Hope to get more help to get started soonest.
Welcome Egbe! We can always use more help from technical contributors, and its especially nice to see people coming into the technical side of the movement to hone skills that they can put to use elsewhere in their lives as well. The https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker wiki page is a good place to start looking for ways to contribute.
Bryan
Welcome Egbe!!! We are always around on irc at chat.freenode.net in #wikimedia-dev. Hope you enjoy your time as a volunteer developer! -- Zppix WMF Volunteer Developer
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On Mar 7, 2017, at 6:25 PM, Bryan Davis bd808@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 2:41 PM, Egbe Eugene agboreugene@gmail.com wrote: Hi all,
I am Egbe Eugene. I come from Cameroon and i am quite new to the movement as a developer. My thought towards contributing to the community is driven by the impact which the foundation could bring to my country and Africa and also what i will do in order that the movement be heard around the ends of my country.
I will also wish to enhance my engineering skills while contributing to the movement by working on the foundation's projects.
Hope to get more help to get started soonest.
Welcome Egbe! We can always use more help from technical contributors, and its especially nice to see people coming into the technical side of the movement to hone skills that they can put to use elsewhere in their lives as well. The https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker wiki page is a good place to start looking for ways to contribute.
Bryan
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Hi Egbe,
Great to have you on board!
Don’t hesitate to poke people if you have trouble finding or understanding documentation, we may be already used to its quirks :-)
Jan
Thanks for the warm welcome into the community *All*
I wish to express my desire to participate in this year's summer of code as i know it is the most rapid way ( apart from the hackathons) to hack the Foundation projects. For someone as new to the foundation as i am, are there any projects which could be suggested for me to quickly get about and straight to work.
Thanks very much Egbe
On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 8:55 AM, Jan Dittrich jan.dittrich@wikimedia.de wrote:
Hi Egbe,
Great to have you on board!
Don’t hesitate to poke people if you have trouble finding or understanding documentation, we may be already used to its quirks :-)
Jan
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ha, how embarrassing! i used google to search "wikimedia projects programming beginner" and google found the beginners guide for python programmers, which is not what i wanted :) https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Programmers . then i went to https://www.wikipedia.org/ and i was lost as well. donation, shop, help, and, and, and. no programming.
where is this beginners page hidden, and why are google, bing, and duckduckgo not able to find it?
best, rupert
On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Egbe Eugene agboreugene@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for the warm welcome into the community *All*
I wish to express my desire to participate in this year's summer of code as i know it is the most rapid way ( apart from the hackathons) to hack the Foundation projects. For someone as new to the foundation as i am, are there any projects which could be suggested for me to quickly get about and straight to work.
Thanks very much Egbe
On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 8:55 AM, Jan Dittrich jan.dittrich@wikimedia.de wrote:
Hi Egbe,
Great to have you on board!
Don’t hesitate to poke people if you have trouble finding or understanding documentation, we may be already used to its quirks :-)
On Sun, 2017-03-19 at 12:23 +0100, rupert THURNER wrote:
ha, how embarrassing! i used google to search "wikimedia projects programming beginner" and google found the beginners guide for python programmers, which is not what i wanted :) https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Programmers . then i went to https://www.wikipedia.org/ and i was lost as well. donation, shop, help, and, and, and. no programming.
where is this beginners page hidden, and why are google, bing, and duckduckgo not able to find it?
On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Egbe Eugene agboreugene@gmail.com wrote: I wish to express my desire to participate in this year's summer of code as i know it is the most rapid way ( apart from the hackathons) to hack the Foundation projects. For someone as new to the foundation as i am, are there any projects which could be suggested for me to quickly get about and straight to work.
For more information, please see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_programs
Thanks! andre
On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 7:23 AM, rupert THURNER rupert.thurner@gmail.com wrote:
where is this beginners page hidden,
Is https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker what you're looking for?
and why are google, bing, and duckduckgo not able to find it?
I don't know. When I try that search on Google the above page shows up as the 9th result, even in a private browsing session with a different browser from a different IP.
On Mar 19, 2017 2:17 PM, "Brad Jorsch (Anomie)" bjorsch@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 7:23 AM, rupert THURNER rupert.thurner@gmail.com wrote:
where is this beginners page hidden,
Is https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker what you're looking for?
and why are google, bing, and duckduckgo not able to find it?
I don't know. When I try that search on Google the above page shows up as the 9th result, even in a private browsing session with a different browser from a different IP.
Really? What keywords are you using?
Rupert
On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 7:03 PM, rupert THURNER rupert.thurner@gmail.com wrote:
Really? What keywords are you using?
"wikimedia projects programming beginner",[1] just as you said.
[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=wikimedia+projects+programming+beginner&...
rupert THURNER wrote:
ha, how embarrassing! i used google to search "wikimedia projects programming beginner" and google found the beginners guide for python programmers, which is not what i wanted :) https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Programmers . then i went to https://www.wikipedia.org/ and i was lost as well. donation, shop, help, and, and, and. no programming.
In the footer of every Wikimedia wiki, there should be a "Developers" link that leads to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute.
You can see this link at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page#footer or https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page#footer or https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home#footer. Suggestions for more places to put this link or better text to make it more obvious are always welcome, of course. :-)
MZMcBride
On 20 March 2017 at 01:03, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
In the footer of every Wikimedia wiki, there should be a "Developers" link that leads to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute. You can see this link at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page#footer or https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page#footer or https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home#footer. Suggestions for more places to put this link or better text to make it more obvious are always welcome, of course. :-)
+1 !!
- d.
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