Wikimedia Tech Safari Program/Newcomers
What to do if you're new
[edit]There are several ways to participate in the event as a newcomer.
Attend sessions marked as good for newcomers
[edit]All sessions list whether or not they are good for newcomers.
Here are a few we strongly recommend:
- Overview of technical areas and projects in the Wikimedia ecosystem
- Ask anything about Phabricator
- Discussion about writing technical documentation: what helps and what gets in the way?
Ask questions
[edit]Ask questions in the chat of each session or reach out to the speaker after the session through their contact details.
Introduce yourself to others
[edit]This is a great chance to meet people
- Add yourself and your interests to the participants page.
- Check out other communication spaces.
Explore resources for newcomers
[edit]- Check out the New Developers page for project ideas.
- Basic skills needed to contribute to development of MediaWiki core and MediaWiki extensions
- An overview of the MediaWiki Action API
- About the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) provides a way for tools to access Wikidata data
- About Gerrit, the tool we use to handle code reviews
- Wikibase
- An introduction to Wikimedia Cloud Services (i.e., Toolforge, PAWS)
- An overview about Structured Data
- A basic overview of the implementation of Lua on Wikimedia projects