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
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Birgit Müller
Community Communications Manager
Software Development and Engineering
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.