Hello all,

we’re happy to launch the Season of RevisionSlider - and very happy to invite you in!

Are you a volunteer developer with JavaScript and jQuery skills?*

And interested in:

- working in a team for a limited period of time? - a project that is nice to work on, with a clear scope and different small tasks? - contributing to a MediaWiki extension that is deployed to all Wikimedia wikis? - helping to develop the version 2.0 of the RevisionSlider?

Do you have a bit of time *from beginning of August to end of September 2018*?

Then you might be the perfect fit for joining the Season of RevisionSlider :-)

About the feature

The RevisionSlider is a MediaWiki extension, developed bei Wikimedia Deutschland’s Technical Wishes team. It adds a slider to the diff page that allows to easily navigate through revisions. The feature got developed in 2016/2017, and is a default feature on all wikis since May 2017. [1]

About Season of RevisionSlider:

Implementing version 2.0

The work on a feature doesn’t stop in the moment it is deployed everywhere. It needs to be maintained, and continuous user feedback helps identifying new use cases that the feature could ideally address on top. We think it is time for realizing version 2.0 of the feature: Including general improvements and a few new features - for example, highlighting all edits of the same user.

Why a Volunteer Dev team

Finding good tasks to work on, getting people to review your patches, or just getting good advice can be very challenging. With *Season of RevisionSlider* we want to provide the chance to experience all of this the easy way - together with us :-)

How to join

We are looking for 4-5 people who would be interested to work as a development team over a period of 2 months. The team will be supported by a group of engineers, product management, design and communication. We plan a *kick-off meeting* via video call on *Thursday, August 2, 15:00 UTC* (so save the date!), and will continue with weekly check-ins until end of September.

If you are interested, please let us know by July 26. Just subscribe to the ticket & say Hi!

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199556

If you have any questions, please comment directly in the ticket.

We’re really looking forward to meeting you :-)

See you soon,

Birgit (for WMDE’s Technical Wishes Team)

* PHP basic skills and a basic understanding of CSS are nice to have, but it can work without

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RevisionSlider