Talk:Africa Wikimedia Technical Community

Have you heard of MediaWiki.org and want to try it out and see what it is used for? Its landing page has been renewed, you can see it here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki.

It comes with tips on how to make contributions to the MediaWiki software and a whole lot more. Enjoy!

Thanks a lot @Jeropbrenda.

Would it help the project if this page and its subpages were translatable? If it would, I'd like to help by preparing the pages for translation. Thanks:)

@X-Savitar ping

@Jeropbrenda, yes, you can go ahead and prepare the page. Thanks a lot for your contributions. Feel free and revert in case of any questions. :)

@X-Savitar I prepared the page and it has been marked for translation, although it has undergone some heavy editing from Shirayuki.

Yeah @Jeropbrenda, @Shirayuki is the expert when it comes to that. Follow his advices :). Thanks for your work!

@X-Savitar sorry for re-opening this but I didn't know where else to inform you of the progress since the discussion started here. All the subpages are now translatable as well and I've started translations to Swahili.

Thanks a lot!

	The Original Barnstar
	A barnstar for all the difference this project is making and the amazing work that the project leads are doing.

We receive the barnstar and the kudos @Jeropbrenda. Thank you so much!

Thanks for reaching out! Marking this as resolved!

Hello everyone,

My name is Mercy Akinkuotu, I am a student from a tertiary university in Nigeria. I started editing Wikipedia pages late last year. During this period i learnt a lot of things about wikimedia, I got to know about Outreachy and GSoC. I contacted Teke Noelle, she was so helpful, she mention joining Africa Wikimedia Developers.

I just finished my Student industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES)(July- Dec 2017),where i worked with CakePHP, JavaScript and Bootstrap.Although I learnt a lot during this period but i can't particularly say i learnt enough.

I am still in the process of becoming a developer but i NEED HELP! I plan on participating in GSoC 2018 /Outreachy round 16. I am planning on working on the Cargo Extension.I have install mediawiki,Cargo and ReplaceText Extensions. I am still study the flow of the project altogether but it is looking like a foreign language, i really need HELP with it.

Also i would love to join the mailing list, i tried but i keep getting "You must GET the form before submitting it.".

I look forward to learning more, gaining more experience and contributing to opensource. Thanks

P.S: Please don't mind my long epistle,Thank you, Merci beaucuop.

Thanks so much for getting in touch @AkinkuotuFunmi and your interest in the outreach programs for Wikimedia. Also, feel free to post your questions on our mailing list (https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedia-developers) or on our IRC channel (#wikimedia-dev-africa). We're always open to help you out with any questions :).

Thanks for the encouragement!

What the title says :)

Thank you @Elitre (WMF)

Thank you very much @Elitre (WMF) :)

@BamLifa is now an active member of the project and already making contributions :). Thanks Bam.

Hi!

I'm a developper here in the DR Congo and wikimedian as well. I'm intersted in the project. What to do ?

Thanks for reaching out @BamLifa, can you subscribe to the project's mailing list here: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedia-developers and also get started by reading the project page to get started?

Hi BamLifa, as mentioned by my colleague signup to our mailing list to get in touch. Also visit this page to make a request by creating a section on the page and tell us what you need there. Cheers

Thanks for helping us @Jdlrobson.

I'm really excited to learn about this project. Is there any way I can help? Maybe as a mentor - suggesting tasks to work on and helping review them? Please let me know :)

Yes @Jdlrobson, you can read all about the project on this our mediawiki page and also here is our phabricator work board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/africa-wikimedia-developers/. You can add tasks under the column "Featured Tasks" and I will ping you later today in the evening on IRC for us to chat more :). Thanks

@Jdlrobson, please feel free to join #wiki-dev-africa to be of help to some folks. You are highly welcome :). Thanks and waiting to see you around.