Hi devs/techs,
Is there a wiki page that acts as a first stop or landing page for computer science students who might be interested in working on coding projects with Wikipedia/Wikimedia projects?
We have a page on Wikipedia greeting students/instructors who want to do class projects related to *writing* articles, but do we have a similar thing for CS instructors and students who might want to do an assignment or class project with Mediawiki, APIs, or with database dumps?
If anyone could point me to the best of what we have now, that’d be great. This would be a way to find “shovel ready” challenges for students to work on, or contribute to projects in progress.
Thanks.
-Andrew
The usual suggestions is https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker
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2016-01-20 18:00 GMT+02:00 Andrew Lih andrew.lih@gmail.com:
Hi devs/techs,
Is there a wiki page that acts as a first stop or landing page for computer science students who might be interested in working on coding projects with Wikipedia/Wikimedia projects?
We have a page on Wikipedia greeting students/instructors who want to do class projects related to *writing* articles, but do we have a similar thing for CS instructors and students who might want to do an assignment or class project with Mediawiki, APIs, or with database dumps?
If anyone could point me to the best of what we have now, that’d be great. This would be a way to find “shovel ready” challenges for students to work on, or contribute to projects in progress.
Thanks.
-Andrew _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Sadly, the API dev page looks broken: http://devhub.wmflabs.org/wiki/API:Web_APIs_hub
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 4:04 PM Amir E. Aharoni < amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
The usual suggestions is https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
2016-01-20 18:00 GMT+02:00 Andrew Lih andrew.lih@gmail.com:
Hi devs/techs,
Is there a wiki page that acts as a first stop or landing page for
computer
science students who might be interested in working on coding projects
with
Wikipedia/Wikimedia projects?
We have a page on Wikipedia greeting students/instructors who want to do class projects related to *writing* articles, but do we have a similar thing for CS instructors and students who might want to do an assignment
or
class project with Mediawiki, APIs, or with database dumps?
If anyone could point me to the best of what we have now, that’d be
great.
This would be a way to find “shovel ready” challenges for students to
work
on, or contribute to projects in progress.
Thanks.
-Andrew _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 5:04 PM, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
Sadly, the API dev page looks broken: http://devhub.wmflabs.org/wiki/API:Web_APIs_hub
According to the dev hub[1], this is the API hub: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Web_APIs_hub and the link you mention is the prototype site (according to forementioned page).
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_hub
Siebrand
I see.
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 4:08 PM Siebrand Mazeland siebrand@kitano.nl wrote:
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 5:04 PM, Magnus Manske < magnusmanske@googlemail.com> wrote:
Sadly, the API dev page looks broken: http://devhub.wmflabs.org/wiki/API:Web_APIs_hub
According to the dev hub[1], this is the API hub: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Web_APIs_hub and the link you mention is the prototype site (according to forementioned page).
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_hub
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On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 5:00 PM, Andrew Lih andrew.lih@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a wiki page that acts as a first stop or landing page for computer science students who might be interested in working on coding projects with Wikipedia/Wikimedia projects?
* This article is written to help novice developers learn the skills needed to contribute to MediaWiki development: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker * Experienced developers, should go here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_hub
Siebrand
The "Easy" tag in Phabricator is one place to start if folks are looking for simple tasks.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/search/query/uNw6vXu_ZQQD/#R
On 01/20/2016 08:00 AM, Andrew Lih wrote:
Hi devs/techs,
Is there a wiki page that acts as a first stop or landing page for computer science students who might be interested in working on coding projects with Wikipedia/Wikimedia projects?
We have a page on Wikipedia greeting students/instructors who want to do class projects related to *writing* articles, but do we have a similar thing for CS instructors and students who might want to do an assignment or class project with Mediawiki, APIs, or with database dumps?
If anyone could point me to the best of what we have now, that’d be great. This would be a way to find “shovel ready” challenges for students to work on, or contribute to projects in progress.
Thanks.
-Andrew _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
On Wed, 2016-01-20 at 13:07 -0800, Russell Uman wrote:
The "Easy" tag in Phabricator is one place to start if folks are looking for simple tasks.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker refers to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_little_bugs%C2%A0which provides several queries per area for Phabricator tasks marked as "easy", instead of directly going to that long list in Phabricator.
Cheers, andre
Thanks for the tips all, and for the starting points for newbies. Very helpful.
-Andrew
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 4:07 PM, Russell Uman lists@firebus.com wrote:
The "Easy" tag in Phabricator is one place to start if folks are looking for simple tasks.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/search/query/uNw6vXu_ZQQD/#R
On 01/20/2016 08:00 AM, Andrew Lih wrote:
Hi devs/techs,
Is there a wiki page that acts as a first stop or landing page for computer science students who might be interested in working on coding projects with Wikipedia/Wikimedia projects?
We have a page on Wikipedia greeting students/instructors who want to do class projects related to *writing* articles, but do we have a similar thing for CS instructors and students who might want to do an assignment or class project with Mediawiki, APIs, or with database dumps?
If anyone could point me to the best of what we have now, that’d be great. This would be a way to find “shovel ready” challenges for students to work on, or contribute to projects in progress.
Thanks.
-Andrew _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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Hi Andrew,
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 5:00 PM, Andrew Lih andrew.lih@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a wiki page that acts as a first stop or landing page for computer science students who might be interested in working on coding projects with Wikipedia/Wikimedia projects?
We have a page on Wikipedia greeting students/instructors who want to do class projects related to *writing* articles, but do we have a similar thing for CS instructors and students who might want to do an assignment or class project with Mediawiki, APIs, or with database dumps?
If anyone could point me to the best of what we have now, that’d be great. This would be a way to find “shovel ready” challenges for students to work on, or contribute to projects in progress.
For what is worth, all Wikimedia wikis have a "Developers" link in the footer that points to
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute
That page features a first link to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Starter_kit and different sections for types of technical contributions, each of them pointing to a specialized landing page.
I wish we had a clearer path for newcomers. The https://mediawiki.org homepage should provide a clear answer to the expected question you ask. The diversity of replies you got shows the dimension of the prob... of the opportunity ;) we have.
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