WikiIndaba conference 2019/Submissions/MediaWiki 101: Getting indoctrinated into MediaWiki development (plus fettle a real MW bug)
 | This is an  Accepted submission for WikiIndaba conference 2019 that has been reviewed by the members of the Program Committee and accepted into the conference program |
- Submission no. 024
- Title of the submission
- MediaWiki 101: Getting indoctrinated into MediaWiki development (plus fettle a real MW bug)
- Type of submission (lecture, panel, tutorial/workshop, roundtable discussion, lightning talk, birds of a feather discussion)
- Workshop
- Author of the submission
- Derick N. Alangi (Alangi_Derick)
- Language of presentation
- English
- E-mail address
- alangi.derick
wikipedia.de
- Username
- Alangi_Derick
- Country of origin
- Cameroon
- Affiliation, if any (organisation, company etc.)
- Wikimedians of Cameroon User Group
- Personal homepage or blog
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/?curid=10037152
- Abstract (up to 300 words to describe your proposal)
Get started and setup (from their own African guide) into the world of MediaWiki development and get up to speed on fixing an actual MW bug which could be annoying the software users.
“Imagine making contributions into the core software that powers the worlds biggest encyclopedia of our times (and in the future to come), it’s not a myth nor magic, it’s just another route of making impact” :}
- What will attendees take away from this session?
- At the end of the session, attendees would have learnt how to setup MediaWiki and a few extensions on their systems and ready to start making useful contributions into the MW tech world.
- Fix a MediaWiki bug and would have made at least 1 contribution into the Technical space of Wikimedia (awesome right? It’s not magic anymore, it’s a reality).
- Other resources to be used for this presentation is here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Africa_Wikimedia_Developers_Project_Presentations (presentations authored by Derick).
Participants will get to understand insights about the below resources;
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker - for intermediates.
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_Developers - for beginners.
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Africa_Wikimedia_Developers_Project - for beginners.
- Theme of presentation
- Technology, Interface & Infrastructure, Education
- For workshops and discussions, what level is the intended audience?
- Beginner
- Length of session (if other than 25 minutes, specify how long)
- 55 minutes
- Will you attend WikiIndaba if your submission is not accepted?
- Maybe!
- Slides or further information (optional)
- Special requests
- Attendees of this session should have writing materials and their laptops to get the training going.
- We'll be using either MW Vagrant or MW Docker.
- Attendees should create developer related accounts such as; on Gerrit developer and on Phabricator account.
- In most cases, we'll be using Linux as our base Operating System.
- Some bottles of water during the presentation.
- Is this Submission a Draft or Final? Final
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