Hello all
I am Harsh Kothari from Gujarat, India. I want to contribute. I am more active on Gujarati Wikipedia. More then 3k+ edits are there and I have also made some wikibot scripts for doing various work on Gujarati Wikipedia. I want to solve bugs, create new scripts for Gujarati as well as English. So How can I start? I am expert in java script and python and very good knowledge of php, Json, Xml etc. So please guide me how can I start. How I can solve the bugs?
Thanks in advance Harsh --- Harsh Kothari Research Fellow, Physical Research Laboratory(PRL). Ahmedabad.
On 11/04/2012 01:00 PM, Harsh Kothari wrote:
Hello all
I am Harsh Kothari from Gujarat, India. I want to contribute. I am more active on Gujarati Wikipedia. More then 3k+ edits are there and I have also made some wikibot scripts for doing various work on Gujarati Wikipedia. I want to solve bugs, create new scripts for Gujarati as well as English. So How can I start? I am expert in java script and python and very good knowledge of php, Json, Xml etc. So please guide me how can I start. How I can solve the bugs?
Harsh,
Our homepage at https://www.mediawiki.org/ links to some information for new contributors, including "How to become a MediaWiki hacker".
If you have a question, even after reading our FAQ and help pages, feel free to ask it in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_on_IRC
Thanks for offering to contribute!
Hi Thanks for your answer :). How can I fix or solve the bug on Gujarati Wikipedia?
Harsh --- Harsh Kothari Research Fellow, Physical Research Laboratory(PRL). Ahmedabad.
On 05-Nov-2012, at 12:21 AM, Kevin Israel wrote:
On 11/04/2012 01:00 PM, Harsh Kothari wrote:
Hello all
I am Harsh Kothari from Gujarat, India. I want to contribute. I am more active on Gujarati Wikipedia. More then 3k+ edits are there and I have also made some wikibot scripts for doing various work on Gujarati Wikipedia. I want to solve bugs, create new scripts for Gujarati as well as English. So How can I start? I am expert in java script and python and very good knowledge of php, Json, Xml etc. So please guide me how can I start. How I can solve the bugs?
Harsh,
Our homepage at https://www.mediawiki.org/ links to some information for new contributors, including "How to become a MediaWiki hacker".
If you have a question, even after reading our FAQ and help pages, feel free to ask it in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_on_IRC
Thanks for offering to contribute!
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Hi Harsh, and welcome!
On Mon, 2012-11-05 at 00:36 +0530, Harsh Kothari wrote:
Thanks for your answer :). How can I fix or solve the bug on Gujarati Wikipedia?
Could you elaborate which bug you refer to, so people might be able to provide some hints and help you getting started?
From a quick search in Wikimedia's bugtracker for Gujarati, I found
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=35044,35668,41763
andre
Hi. I thinks those bugs have been fixed.
Thanks --- Harsh Kothari Research Fellow, Physical Research Laboratory(PRL). Ahmedabad.
On 05-Nov-2012, at 12:47 AM, Andre Klapper wrote:
Hi Harsh, and welcome!
On Mon, 2012-11-05 at 00:36 +0530, Harsh Kothari wrote:
Thanks for your answer :). How can I fix or solve the bug on Gujarati Wikipedia?
Could you elaborate which bug you refer to, so people might be able to provide some hints and help you getting started? From a quick search in Wikimedia's bugtracker for Gujarati, I found https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=35044,35668,41763
andre
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On 11/04/2012 02:06 PM, Harsh Kothari wrote:
Hi Thanks for your answer :). How can I fix or solve the bug on Gujarati Wikipedia?
Which bug? Has it been reported on Bugzilla? We can't answer your question until you tell us about the bug you're referring to.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/
Hi Harsh!
On 11/04/2012 10:00 AM, Harsh Kothari wrote:
Hello all
I am Harsh Kothari from Gujarat, India. I want to contribute. I am more active on Gujarati Wikipedia. More then 3k+ edits are there and I have also made some wikibot scripts for doing various work on Gujarati Wikipedia. I want to solve bugs, create new scripts for Gujarati as well as English. So How can I start? I am expert in java script and python and very good knowledge of php, Json, Xml etc. So please guide me how can I start. How I can solve the bugs?
The first step is to find the right bug for you to start. The great news is that we have plenty of open bugs for all profiles and tastes. ;)
Play with the advanced search in our Bugzilla. It will also help you understand the projects going on and the priorities that the current developers have set for bugs. Starting with low priority bugs is a good thing, because then you have the luxury to change your mind without much consequences, and make a difference if you do succeed.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/query.cgi?format=advanced
Have in mind that Gujarati Wikipedia not only carries bugs relative to Gujarati, but implicitly any bugs present in the MediaWiki engine and the extensions in use. Think also in the mobile implementation, which I bet are relevant in a country like India.
I did a search and I found this one, as an example:
Show English search result if none in other language https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32541
Imagine Gujarati mobile users being able to search and get results at least in English, if a Gujarati version doesn't exist. Makes sense to me, and it seems that the first one suggesting this idea was no less than Vodafone India.
Of course you can go for any other bug you prefer.
Thanks in advance
Thank YOU in advance for asking. :)
-- Quim
Hi Quim
Thanks for your response. Now How can I fix this bug?
Harsh --- Harsh Kothari Research Fellow, Physical Research Laboratory(PRL). Ahmedabad.
On 05-Nov-2012, at 11:24 PM, Quim Gil wrote:
Hi Harsh!
On 11/04/2012 10:00 AM, Harsh Kothari wrote:
Hello all
I am Harsh Kothari from Gujarat, India. I want to contribute. I am more active on Gujarati Wikipedia. More then 3k+ edits are there and I have also made some wikibot scripts for doing various work on Gujarati Wikipedia. I want to solve bugs, create new scripts for Gujarati as well as English. So How can I start? I am expert in java script and python and very good knowledge of php, Json, Xml etc. So please guide me how can I start. How I can solve the bugs?
The first step is to find the right bug for you to start. The great news is that we have plenty of open bugs for all profiles and tastes. ;)
Play with the advanced search in our Bugzilla. It will also help you understand the projects going on and the priorities that the current developers have set for bugs. Starting with low priority bugs is a good thing, because then you have the luxury to change your mind without much consequences, and make a difference if you do succeed.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/query.cgi?format=advanced
Have in mind that Gujarati Wikipedia not only carries bugs relative to Gujarati, but implicitly any bugs present in the MediaWiki engine and the extensions in use. Think also in the mobile implementation, which I bet are relevant in a country like India.
I did a search and I found this one, as an example:
Show English search result if none in other language https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32541
Imagine Gujarati mobile users being able to search and get results at least in English, if a Gujarati version doesn't exist. Makes sense to me, and it seems that the first one suggesting this idea was no less than Vodafone India.
Of course you can go for any other bug you prefer.
Thanks in advance
Thank YOU in advance for asking. :)
-- Quim
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On 11/05/2012 09:58 AM, Harsh Kothari wrote:
Hi Quim
Thanks for your response. Now How can I fix this bug?
You can find information on how to contribute to mobile projects at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_projects/Contribute
But that is a good question, and the fact that you ask it might mean that perhaps that report is not as good as I thought for starters.
There is a keyboard "easy" identifying bug reports explicitly thought to be easy for newcomers:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=easy&resolution=---
131 bugs found. You can go through them and pick one.
You can also search "minor" or "trivial" bugs through the advanced search. Many of them are easy for starters even if when they are not flagged as such.
After fixing several minor/trivial bugs you will acquire the experience to go after bigger problems.
Show English search result if none in other language https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32541
-- Quim
Thanks Quim
I will solve the small bugs first. What is the procedure of solving bug? Can you just show me to solve one bug? any small bug or any that you are currently solving..
Thanks Harsh --- Harsh Kothari Research Fellow, Physical Research Laboratory(PRL). Ahmedabad.
On 06-Nov-2012, at 6:09 AM, Quim Gil wrote:
On 11/05/2012 09:58 AM, Harsh Kothari wrote:
Hi Quim
Thanks for your response. Now How can I fix this bug?
You can find information on how to contribute to mobile projects at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_projects/Contribute
But that is a good question, and the fact that you ask it might mean that perhaps that report is not as good as I thought for starters.
There is a keyboard "easy" identifying bug reports explicitly thought to be easy for newcomers:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=easy&resolution=---
131 bugs found. You can go through them and pick one.
You can also search "minor" or "trivial" bugs through the advanced search. Many of them are easy for starters even if when they are not flagged as such.
After fixing several minor/trivial bugs you will acquire the experience to go after bigger problems.
Show English search result if none in other language https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32541
-- Quim
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Hi Harsh,
On Mon, 2012-11-05 at 23:28 +0530, Harsh Kothari wrote:
Thanks for your response. Now How can I fix this bug?
I recommend to give http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_developer_hub and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_hub a read. :)
andre
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