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!

Ankita Shukla

$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 )

def show_off( self ):

Where are you right now ?

Installed LAMP in your machine

have followed inhuman Gerrit Tutorial

have MedaiWiki running in your machine

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)

Our goals for this 10 hours

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

How to contribute

            
Warning: Boring slides ahead

There are loads of ways to contribute

Fixing code, Documentation, Quality assurance, Outreach, Design, Localization etc. etc.

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

Expert

User

Create

patch

Improve

code

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

Google

IRC Channels

Mailing

Lists

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

Phabricator

Find bug

Fix it

send patch

Gerrit

Get it

Reviewed

-1,-2

Gets merged

release

mw has your patch