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(a)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(a)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
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IIT Patna
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