Timezone: Africa/Douala
Event:WMA HackKmer Buea - Becoming A Wikimedia Developer
WMA HackKmer Buea - Becoming A Wikimedia Developer
Organized by: Eugene233
Start and end time
08:00, 26 July 2024 to 16:30, 27 July 2024
Participation options
In-person event
Tech Chantier/Bonduma Gate/ Buea - Cameroon Cameroon
Event types
Other
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Overview
[edit]This hackathon event is a first step towards introducing other experienced developer communities into the wikimedia development ecosystem via the Wiki Mentor Africa program.
This event is organized by Wiki Mentor Africa and developers in the Buea developer community in Cameroon.
This event is organized to introduce its participants on how to contribute to Wikimedia projects with the skills they possess. While laying emphasis on the Mediawiki, Wikidata/Wikibase and Wikimedia Commons APIs, Phrabricator and other Wikimedia projects and guiding them towards building a project with their own conception and ideas from what they would have learnt from the workshop.
Program
[edit]| Activity | Time | |
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| Day 1 | Welcome participants/Intro to Wikimedia and projects | 8:00 - 9:00 |
| Review of technologies in Wikimedia + applicable projects | 9:00 - 9:30 | |
| Phabricator Tutorial | 9:30 - 10:30 | |
| Building starter demo projects | 10:30 - 12:30 | |
| Project Idea discussion & think-a-thon | 13:00 - 15:00 | |
| Project documentation & repo setup | 15:00 - 16:30 | |
| Day 2 | Welcome participants and recap | 8:00 - 9:00 |
| Hacking and creating tasks | 9:00 - 13:00 | |
| Conception of tool workflow for further hackathons | 13:30 - 14:30 | |
| Discussion on further events | 14:30 - 15:30 | |
| Photos / sharing(feedback survey) / conclusion / departure | 15:30 - 16:30 |
Who will participate?
[edit]- Those who are available on the 26th and 27th of July
- Members of other open source programming communities in the south-west region
- University students of the engineering department of the university
- Other private engineering school students in the silicon mountain area
- Any other person interested in writing code on Wikimedia projects
Organizers
[edit]| Event Coordinators | Sponsor and Partners |
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See Also
[edit]Documentation
[edit]Articles
[edit]- https://techchantier.com/blog/wmahackkamer-2024-an-exciting-dive-into-the-wiki-ecosystem
- https://medium.com/@billyhansweno/my-two-day-journey-at-wma-hackkmer-buea-embracing-open-source-with-the-wikimedia-foundation-ab830bce4012
- https://medium.com/@ndaleghnoelalum/hackathon-and-open-source-gaining-insight-into-open-source-at-wma-hackkmer-buea-6f95673893ca
- https://egbeeugene.medium.com/empowering-africas-wikimedia-tech-talent-the-start-of-wiki-mentor-africa-initiative-in-cameroon-eba2530378f4
Social media
[edit]- https://x.com/3ch310n/status/1816765864433111091
- https://x.com/Follox2049/status/1816765735885996246
- https://x.com/NkwiCyril/status/1816767409992130706
- https://x.com/Xvansic/status/1816767851899789677
- https://x.com/newDeal23/status/1816765614406467610
- https://x.com/TechChantier/status/1817120077725970536
- https://x.com/TechChantier/status/1817096624402731062
- https://x.com/luca_cameron/status/1816783851118616630
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ndalegh-noela-lum-130855289_opensource-hackathon-wmahackkamerbuea-activity-7225963073726017536-vunu?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hans-weno_wmahackkamer-wmahackkamerbuea-opensource-activity-7223791553943683073-nm9i?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/egbe-eugene_empowering-africas-wikimedia-tech-talent-activity-7229130680192946176-K5YQ?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
Future Work
[edit]Gallery
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Participants Feedback
[edit]Open-source is always amazing, and contributing to MediaWiki and related extensions has been great so far, With the hackathon, I got an Inside into using WikiData and Wikibase API which I contribute to --User:Wandji Collins