Hi Andrew,
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 5:00 PM, Andrew Lih <andrew.lih(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Is there a wiki page that acts as a first stop or
landing page for computer
science students who might be interested in working on coding projects with
Wikipedia/Wikimedia projects?
We have a page on Wikipedia greeting students/instructors who want to do
class projects related to *writing* articles, but do we have a similar
thing for CS instructors and students who might want to do an assignment or
class project with Mediawiki, APIs, or with database dumps?
If anyone could point me to the best of what we have now, that’d be great.
This would be a way to find “shovel ready” challenges for students to work
on, or contribute to projects in progress.
For what is worth, all Wikimedia wikis have a "Developers" link in the
footer that points to
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute
That page features a first link to
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Starter_kit and different sections for types
of technical contributions, each of them pointing to a specialized landing
page.
I wish we had a clearer path for newcomers. The
https://mediawiki.org
homepage should provide a clear answer to the expected question you ask.
The diversity of replies you got shows the dimension of the prob... of the
opportunity ;) we have.
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Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil