Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group/Activities
🧩 2025
[edit]- Core + Working Group committee meeting at IIIT Hyderabad.
- Conducted a Small Wiki Toolkits session on creating infoboxes and templates, led by Jay Prakash
- Launched the Developer Skill Development Program for beginner developers
- Organized the Wikimedia Hackathon Kochi 2025
- Initiated the Community Tech Task Force to support technical needs across Indic communities
- Represented Indic MediaWiki Developers UG at IndiaFOSS 5.0, Bangalore
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Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Kochi 2025 – Group photo -
Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group at IndiaFOSS 5.0, Bangalore – Group photo
Past Activities of Indic MediaWiki Developers UG
[edit]⚙️ 2024
[edit]- Organized:
- Represented Indic MediaWiki Developers UG at IndiaFOSS 4.0, Bangalore
- Conducted a Technical Training on MediaWiki at Wiki Club SATI
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Wikimedia Hackathon Kochi 2024 – Group photo -
Indic Mini-Hackathon Guwahati 2024 – Hacking & Presentations -
Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Bhubaneswar 2024 – Group photo
💡 2023
[edit]- Organized:
- Mentored 2 interns as part of Google Summer of Code 2023
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Jay Prakash speaking about the API Sandbox during the Indic Wikimedia amFOSS Hackathon 2023.
🚀 2022
[edit]- Organized the Indic Hackathon 2022
- Hosted the Indic Wikimania Hackathon 2022
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Indic Hackathon 2022 – Group photo -
Indic Wikimania Hackathon 2022 – Group photo
🧑💻 2021
[edit]- Mentored GSoC project: The UserScript Tour
- Focused on helping newcomers learn how to write user scripts and gadgets
- Program: Google Summer of Code 2021
- Co-organized Small Wiki Toolkits (SWT) South Asia 2021
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SWT Bots workshop -
SWT Template workshop
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🧰 2020: Small Wiki Toolkits (SWT)
[edit]- Co-organized the [[Special:MyLanguage</SWT_Indic_Workshop_Series_2020/Report|SWT Indic Workshop Series 2020]] in collaboration with WMF’s Developer Advocacy team
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SWT Phabricator workshop -
SWT Wikidata workshop
🛠️ 2019
[edit]- Created 2 UserScripts:
- Developed Wikifile Transfer and deployed it on Toolforge
- Created IndicBot, a Python-based bot
- Handled 10 out of 17 community requests on the Requests page
🛠️ 2018
[edit]- Initiated Indic-TechCom
- Developed 3 UserScripts:
- Built and deployed 2 tools on Toolforge:
- Created MediaWiki extension: CountDownClock
- Requests page