Hi everyone,
I am a third year Computer Science undergraduate from India. I am interested in contributing to Wikimedia Foundation.Can anyone help me get started?
I am currently working on making a Wikipedia Search Engine for ~50 GB of Wikipedia data . The project involves applying various indexing and retrieving techniques to make the engine scalable and efficient.
Thank you.
Regards, Arushi Dogra
Hello Arushi, The first entry point for any newcomer to mediawiki is - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker First get yourself familiar with mediawiki, and try your hands on easy bugs on Phabricator http://phabricator.wikimedia.org , the bug tracker for Wikimedia projects.
Meanwhile look for things that might interest you and have a look at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/possible-tech-projects/ for ideas on any existing prospective projects.
And feel free to ask questions on #mediawiki or #wikimedia-dev on freenode irc :)
-Regards, Sumit
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 8:19 PM, Arushi Dogra arushidogra1995@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am a third year Computer Science undergraduate from India. I am interested in contributing to Wikimedia Foundation.Can anyone help me get started?
I am currently working on making a Wikipedia Search Engine for ~50 GB of Wikipedia data . The project involves applying various indexing and retrieving techniques to make the engine scalable and efficient.
Thank you.
Regards, Arushi Dogra _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
If you are interested in search you might find the CirrusSearch extension, which leverages elasticsearch to provide search in production interesting. We use this to power search over 2.5TB of wiki content (9TB including replicas).
There are many possible things to work on that could be interesting. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/cirrussearch/ for a wide variety of ideas that could be worked on.
If you have any questions reply here, or drop by our irc room, #wikimedia-discovery. There are people around perhaps 18 hours a day during European and American hours that might be able to point you in the right direction. On Feb 11, 2016 7:01 AM, "Sumit Asthana" asthana.sumit23@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Arushi, The first entry point for any newcomer to mediawiki is - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker First get yourself familiar with mediawiki, and try your hands on easy bugs on Phabricator http://phabricator.wikimedia.org , the bug tracker for Wikimedia projects.
Meanwhile look for things that might interest you and have a look at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/possible-tech-projects/ for ideas on any existing prospective projects.
And feel free to ask questions on #mediawiki or #wikimedia-dev on freenode irc :)
-Regards, Sumit
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 8:19 PM, Arushi Dogra arushidogra1995@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am a third year Computer Science undergraduate from India. I am interested in contributing to Wikimedia Foundation.Can anyone help me get started?
I am currently working on making a Wikipedia Search Engine for ~50 GB of Wikipedia data . The project involves applying various indexing and retrieving techniques to make the engine scalable and efficient.
Thank you.
Regards, Arushi Dogra _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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