Hi ,
Hope you are doing well.
I want to discuss my preparation for Gsoc-2017 in Wikimedia. I am very new
to this organization and I am facing a lot of difficulties in getting
Wikimedia workflow.
1. I have done open source contributions in past and what I have seen is -
They have their repositories on GitHub and issues related to that repo. For
preparing to contribute, we just had to fork their repo and send a pull
request after resolving the issue. But in Wikipedia, there is a lot of
hassle(phabricator, gerrit and all).
2. For the preparation of GSoC, we need to choose an idea from the idea
page. Can you please help me in choosing the project?
I am doing android app developement since 3 years. So I think android
related tasks would be easy for me to get started.
Could Someone help me for getting started in android?
3. What are the other things that happen apart from GSoC(In case if I wish
to contribute even after Gsoc. How is the culture of this
community?
4. I am not facing a lot of difficulties in IRC. Sometimes I don't get the
reply, sometimes my nickname is unavailable if I get offline for some time
and it is not very friendly. Could somebody help me in IRC. I am using mac.
My nickname is *mayank_dev*
I apologize for my long email. But I am facing a lot of difficulties in
the community.
Thanks.
On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 7:36 PM, Andre Klapper <aklapper(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
On Wed, 2016-08-24 at 22:39 +0530, MAYANK JINDAL
wrote:
My name is Mayank Jindal. I am third year
undergraduate student
currently studying at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. I
want to take part in Gsoc-2017 from Wikimedia.
I have knowledge of C, C++, JAVA, Python, Android app development and
Web development and beginner in *Machine Learning, Artificial
Intelligence.*
I am very enthusiastic to learn new skills which would be required.
Thanks for your early interest.
Glad to hear you'd like to get involved!
Regarding machine learning,
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Objective_Revision_Evaluation_Service
might be interesting?
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Revision_scoring_as_a_service
lists mailing list and IRC channel contact information.
We don't have any information about GSoC 2017 yet but you could get an
impression by looking at the page for GSoC 2016 at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016
and
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_programs for general info
on workflows and expectations for GSoC, Outreachy and other programs.
About technical contributions in general, have you taken a look at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker
already? It explains how to set up your testing environment, how to
find good "easy" tasks to start with, how to check out code via Git,
how to submit patches via Gerrit, recommendations for communication,
and best places where to ask any questions you might have.
Hope that helps for the start? If not, tell us!
Looking forward to your contributions! :)
andre
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Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler
http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
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Kind Regards,
Mayank Jindal,
Third year undergraduate student,
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
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