Tony Thomas
Volunteer contributor with the Wikimedia Foundation & Co-Founder of ThinkFOSS [ Random Python and PHP freak ]
Wikimedia Hackathon BPHC
BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus
24 - 25 September, 2016
##wmhbphc
In association with Wikimedia Foundation,
BPHC CSA and Subham Soni
before we start ..
Official event page - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_BPHC
IRC channel
##wmhbphc in chat.freenode.net
Facebook events
https://www.facebook.com/events/173821853058405/
About Us*
* Usually it's always 'About Me', and this time Abdeali does not want to make a slide :/
Tony Thomas
Abdeali JK
Srijan Agarwall
GSoC'16 and Outreachy org admin with Wikimedia
GSoC'16 intern with Wikimedia Foundation with pywikibot
GSoC'15 with Gnome
GSoC'14 with Wikimedia - built bouncehandler
Currently full time with WikiToLearn
GSoC'16 intern with WikiToLearn in creating offline support for MW
web intern with Igalia
show-off
About Us*
* Usually it's always 'About Me', and this time Abdeali does not want to make a slide :/
Tony Thomas
Abdeali JK
Srijan Agarwall
Develop web apps in
python-django
and JS too
Develop in PHP for MediaWiki and extensions
Have exp with visual-editor and parasoid
Mostly JS and PHP
show-off
About Us*
* Usually it's always 'About Me', and this time Abdeali does not want to make a slide :/
Tony Thomas
Abdeali JK
Srijan Agarwall
User: 01tonythomas
User:Srijancse
srijan
@wikitolearn.org
DON'T expect to find me on Facebook, Twitter. You are welcome to check my LinkedIn profile
tonythomas on Freenode (#wikimedia-devrel)
01tonythomas
@gmail.com
show-off
About Us*
* Usually it's always 'About Me', and this time Abdeali does not want to make a slide :/
show-off
Talk less. code more
How things are planned
24th Sept
25th Sept
- General introduction to MediaWiki code review process and etc
MediaWiki team
PyWikiBot team
Working on sample bugs, sending in patch sets to Gerrit
Learning to use Pywikibot with Abdeali's tutorial on Wikipedia and Wikidata
(he got some plans)
Before
we start
-
Git -Version control system for collaborative development
-
Mediawiki - Open Source wiki software, on which run the Wikipedia
-
Wikimedia Foundation - The organization which maintains MediaWiki and ~1000 popular wikis
-
IRC - Internet Relay Chat, where developers hang out
-
Bug - issue in code which needs a patch
-
Patch - code change, which fix something
-
GSoC - Paid Internship sponsored by Google
-
Outreachy - GSoC.remove(males)
Our goals for this 2 days
- Get more students contributing to Open Source projects, and Mediawiki, and push them to internship programs like Outreachy and GSoC
your take ...
- Know a bit of how to contribute to MediaWiki
- Fix your first bug to MediaWiki codebase
- Preparing your proposals, get to know how to be the strong candidate
and maybe one day ...
- star in your organization, join one
- redeem various other opportunities while sticking around
Wikimedia Hackathon BPHC
By Tony Thomas
