Wikimedia Hackathon 2022/How to/Newcomers
What to do if you're new
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Welcome to the Wikimedia technical community! We're so glad you're here.
There are several ways to participate in the Hackathon as a newcomer.
Attend the newcomers social session
[edit]This will be held on Friday, May 20, in the Hackathon event space.
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?
- Scribe: Open-source Language Keyboards Based on Wikidata Lexicographical Data
Join a project
[edit]Explore the Hackathon workboard in Phabricator, where people are tracking projects and sessions.
There are many resources to learn about Phabricator, if you're unfamiliar with the platform.
Ask questions
[edit]Stop by the Help Desk or the Newcomers room in the event space (these will be right near the entrance).
Introduce yourself to others
[edit]This is a great chance to meet people
- Add yourself and your interests to the participants page.
- Attend a local meetup.
- 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