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Mathieu Stumpf

13 Apr 2013 13 Apr '13

1:48 a.m.

Hello, I'm new to this ml, and would like to have some relevant links so I can gather information to have a global overview of how you organize and how to make useful contributions. Kind regards, mathieu

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Mark A. Hershberger

13 Apr 13 Apr

7:32 a.m.

On 04/13/2013 04:48 AM, Mathieu Stumpf wrote:

I'm new to this ml, and would like to have some relevant links so I can gather information to have a global overview of how you organize and how to make useful contributions.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute are two good places to begin. -- http://hexmode.com/ It is not the case that simple clear questions have simple clear answers, not even in the world of pure ideas, and much less so in the messy real world of everyday life. -- Gregory Chaitin, "Paradoxes of Randomness"

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Mathieu Stumpf

7:45 a.m.

Le samedi 13 avril 2013 à 10:32 -0400, Mark A. Hershberger a écrit :

On 04/13/2013 04:48 AM, Mathieu Stumpf wrote:

I'm new to this ml, and would like to have some relevant links so I can gather information to have a global overview of how you organize and how to make useful contributions.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute are two good places to begin.

Thank you, it seems to be exactly what I need. :)

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Quim Gil

15 Apr 15 Apr

11:09 a.m.

Hello Mathieu, welcome! These days we are getting many new potential contributors thanks to Google Summer of Code and Outreach Program for Women. We want to know what can we do better for you! On 04/13/2013 07:45 AM, Mathieu Stumpf wrote:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute are two good places to begin.

Thank you, it seems to be exactly what I need. :)

This is very good to hear! Still, we welcome improvements to this "Starter kit" (well put). Just recently we have started a selection of essential resources for new contributors, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:New_contributors And we are discussing many other ideas at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:New_contributors -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Mathieu Stumpf

16 Apr 16 Apr

2:28 a.m.

Le 2013-04-15 20:09, Quim Gil a écrit :

Hello Mathieu, welcome! These days we are getting many new potential contributors thanks to Google Summer of Code and Outreach Program for Women. We want to know what can we do better for you!

Well, I'm not a student nor a woman, but I appreciate all the feedback which is given to me on this thread. So thank you to all of you. For now it looks like to me that I will have to "just sit down and read" as it seems there a lot of documentation I should be accustomed to. At some point I'll reach the page which is talking about "getting into action, closing a bug" or something like that. Sorry I missed the bug triage yesterday.

On 04/13/2013 07:45 AM, Mathieu Stumpf wrote:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute are two good places to begin.

Thank you, it seems to be exactly what I need. :)

This is very good to hear! Still, we welcome improvements to this "Starter kit" (well put). Just recently we have started a selection of essential resources for new contributors, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:New_contributors And we are discussing many other ideas at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:New_contributors

Ok, I'll add that to my "TO READ" list ;) -- Association Culture-Libre http://www.culture-libre.org/

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Andre Klapper

2:42 a.m.

Hi, On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 11:28 +0200, Mathieu Stumpf wrote:

Sorry I missed the bug triage yesterday.

We have bugdays every other week if you're interested: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage andre -- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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Mathieu Stumpf

3:23 a.m.

Le 2013-04-16 11:42, Andre Klapper a écrit :

Hi, On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 11:28 +0200, Mathieu Stumpf wrote:

Sorry I missed the bug triage yesterday.

We have bugdays every other week if you're interested: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage andre

I'll try to participate to the next event if it match with my schedule. -- Association Culture-Libre http://www.culture-libre.org/

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Mathieu Stumpf

6 May 6 May

5:28 a.m.

Reading [1], I'm wondering if we couldn't have a wiki version of this page that could be updated along the road. For example the text talk about MySQL and but doesn't talk about the MariaDB migration. By the way the two "The Architecture of Open Source Applications" books may find there place on Wikisource, don't you think? But Wikisource isn't the place for books you want to update, may be Wikibooks may be a good place, what do you think? [1] http://www.aosabook.org/en/mediawiki.html Le 2013-04-15 20:09, Quim Gil a écrit :

Hello Mathieu, welcome! These days we are getting many new potential contributors thanks to Google Summer of Code and Outreach Program for Women. We want to know what can we do better for you! On 04/13/2013 07:45 AM, Mathieu Stumpf wrote:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute are two good places to begin.

Thank you, it seems to be exactly what I need. :)

This is very good to hear! Still, we welcome improvements to this "Starter kit" (well put). Just recently we have started a selection of essential resources for new contributors, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:New_contributors And we are discussing many other ideas at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:New_contributors

-- Association Culture-Libre http://www.culture-libre.org/

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Guillaume Paumier

6:34 a.m.

Hi, On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Mathieu Stumpf <psychoslave(a)culture-libre.org> wrote:

Reading [1], I'm wondering if we couldn't have a wiki version of this page that could be updated along the road. For example the text talk about MySQL and but doesn't talk about the MariaDB migration. [1] http://www.aosabook.org/en/mediawiki.html

That chapter was actually written on mediawiki.org, as part of this project: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_architecture_document The content of the chapter lives in 2 wiki pages: * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_history * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:MediaWiki_architecture You're encouraged to update what needs updating :)

By the way the two "The Architecture of Open Source Applications" books may find there place on Wikisource, don't you think? But Wikisource isn't the place for books you want to update, may be Wikibooks may be a good place, what do you think?

Wikisource could host static versions of the books. Or Wikibooks could host "live" versions of the books. I'm not sure that we'd see many updates to the books outside of the MediaWiki chapter, so right now I'd rather encourage people to edit the content on mediawiki.org. -- Guillaume Paumier

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Mathieu Stumpf

7:20 a.m.

Le 2013-05-06 15:34, Guillaume Paumier a écrit :

Hi, On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Mathieu Stumpf <psychoslave(a)culture-libre.org> wrote:

Reading [1], I'm wondering if we couldn't have a wiki version of this page that could be updated along the road. For example the text talk about MySQL and but doesn't talk about the MariaDB migration. [1] http://www.aosabook.org/en/mediawiki.html

That chapter was actually written on mediawiki.org, as part of this project: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_architecture_document The content of the chapter lives in 2 wiki pages: * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_history * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:MediaWiki_architecture You're encouraged to update what needs updating :)

Ok, thank you for the information. It may be interesting to add this link in [1], and maybe it would be more relevant to use this links on [2] instead of giving a link to [1], what do you think? [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker#MediaWiki

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Quim Gil

9:14 a.m.

Only to honor the subject and initial motivation of this thread: Recently we started drafting an actual Starter Kit, as Mathieu requested: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:New_contributors/Starter_kit Edits and questions in the discussion page are welcome. In fact with a bit of focus from a few people during a few days we could get something pretty decent. Mathieu and other newcomers: your contribution is especially valuable since you still remember how it was when you landed here for the first time. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Mathieu Stumpf

10 a.m.

Le lundi 06 mai 2013 à 09:14 -0700, Quim Gil a écrit :

Only to honor the subject and initial motivation of this thread: Recently we started drafting an actual Starter Kit, as Mathieu requested: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:New_contributors/Starter_kit Edits and questions in the discussion page are welcome. In fact with a bit of focus from a few people during a few days we could get something pretty decent. Mathieu and other newcomers: your contribution is especially valuable since you still remember how it was when you landed here for the first time.

Glad to hear that I could be useful there. I can't promess feedback before this week end though, I already have a full shedule.

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Thomas Gries

13 Apr 13 Apr

8:08 a.m.

Am 13.04.2013 16:32, schrieb Mark A. Hershberger:

On 04/13/2013 04:48 AM, Mathieu Stumpf wrote:

I'm new to this ml, and would like to have some relevant links so I can gather information to have a global overview of how you organize and how to make useful contributions.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute are two good places to begin.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MDG MediaWiki Developer's Guide first book on MediaWiki; for newbies and experienced programmers. download book in PDF or ebook format from our MediwWiki Virtual Library bookshelf https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MVL

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