Hello all,
Small Wiki Toolkits (SWT) is an initiative to support small wikis
communities by sharing and developing technical skills needed to support,
maintain, and grow a language wiki. You can learn more about it here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits.
As a next step for this initiative, we would like to share with you some
ideas on how you can be a part of this:
- Contribute to a Starter kit <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242545>
by proposing or helping develop and write recommendations for technical
topics in simple English.
- Develop toolkits using the recommendations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits#Develop_toolkits>
on the SWT page. You can see existing toolkits in the
Category:Small_wiki_toolkits
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Small_wiki_toolkits> on
Wikimedia Commons.
- Learn technical topics using the resources
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits#Toolkits> on the
SWT page and apply the skills gained to provide technical support to a
small wiki community.
- Translate resources such as the SWT page itself and tutorials on
technical topics linked from it.
- Provide technical support
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits#Ask_your_technical_questions>
on the support desk on
mediawiki.org, mailing lists, etc.
- Organize a technical workshop or a session to help a small wiki
community.
If you want to help with any of the above or there is anything else you
would like to share around building local capacity in a small wiki,
please start
a discussion on the talk page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Small_wiki_toolkits> and/or add your
name to the list of interested members
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits#Members_list>.
Cheers,
The Small Wiki Toolkits Initiative
*Srishti Sethi*
Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>