Wikimedia Hackathon, IIT R 

[12 March, 2016; 10 am to 8 pm]

Tony Thomas

Few official details

Official event page - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_IIT_Roorkee 

IRC channel

#wmhackiitr in irc.freenode.net

Facebook events

https://www.facebook.com/events/1565093850474909/

 

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What we can do in 10 hours ?

• First 30 mins - why we are here, the perks 

• Next 30 mins - MediaWiki code review process, making things happen 
• Next 8 hours - hack, code, hack
• Next 1 hour - Preparing for GSoC/Outreachy, strong proposals, etc! 

and I travel back to South

and one more thing .. free food :)

$groups

• CS final year student here, came forward with this idea
• Did her OPW with Wikimedia Foundation, in 2014 - developed the SpellingDictionary extension for Mediawiki
• Google Anita Borg Scholarships, Red hat Women in Open Source academic award finalist, etc etc. 
• Google Code In 2015 mentor, representing Wikimedia at FOSSASIA, Singapore
• Still sticks around with the Foundation!

$whoami

• CS final year student at Amrita University
• Active FOSS@Amrita member 
• Develops in PHP, Python ( Django, Tornado )  

• Considerable amount ( ~200 ) bug fix since 2013 
• GSoC 2014 student with Wikimedia, project deployed
• Mentored GSoC 2015 with Wikimedia Foundation 

• GSoC 2016 & Outreachy'12  org admin with Wikimedia 
• Invited to WMF events at SFO, Lyon, Jerusalem, Italy
• Co - founded ThinkFOSS ( www.thinkfoss.com )

What we will be doing later from now ?

find and fix bugs in MediaWiki codebase

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)
                            

• Get more students contributing to Open Source projects, and Mediawiki, and push them to internship programs like Outreachy and GSoC

• 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

• star in your organization, join one
• redeem various other opportunities while sticking around

How to contribute

            
Warning: Boring slides ahead
        
        

Open Source projects

• Code available for public to alter
• alteration made to public code - patch
• Maintainers review, merge and  verify  patch
• Next release got the patch

Any minimum requirements ?

• Mindset to search and find answers from Google
• Should be cool with the project language
• Be super expressive, ask questions in text

if stuck:

Few things you need to know...

before you start off

How can others know

I am working on this bug  ?

Do I have to find

bugs on my own ?

How can someone review my works,

and test if I did it wrong ?

Phabricator

• Bug tracker 
• Developed by Facebook 

Gerrit

• Code Review Tool 
• Developed by Google

 

gerrit.wikimedia.org

phabricator.wikimedia.org

That's it!

Lets start finding and fixing bugs :)