Grants:TPS/Jim Carter/Lua Annual Workshop/Report

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Event name edit

Lua Annual Workshop 2016

Participant connections edit

Pcawley1964 - Peter Cawley (old account); Shared ideas of how Lua can benefit with regards to copyright check when the page is created.
Donnyd31 - Justin Donaldson (new to Wikipedia; registered during the workshop) Briefed them about how Wikipedia works, registered and I'm mentoring.
Dfavro - David Favro (old account); We started discussing about a bot frame work and how to implement it on Wikipedias. See video below.
Jeff Frame - Jeff Shimbo (new to Wikipedia; registered during the workshop) Briefed them about how Wikipedia works, registered and I'm mentoring.
Halostephen - Stephen Massey (new to Wikipedia; registered during the workshop) Briefed them about how Wikipedia works, registered and I'm mentoring.
Jenyvip - Jamie Jennings (new to Wikipedia; registered during the workshop) Shown interest to work with Templates.
DJohnR - Dr. John Robert Thompson (new to Wikipedia; registered during the workshop) Briefed them about how Wikipedia works, registered and I'm mentoring.
Taylor Lee - Lee Taylor (old account) Ideas and preliminary discussion on to create en:WP:AWB for mobile as an app using object Lua.

Outcome edit

Option 3: New Creation: What was one useful outcome of the event for the Wikimedia movement?

People got involved to volunteer on Wikipedia as can be seen by the number of people registered. With Dfavro, I have started to build a bot Framework with lua primarily for Wikipedia. Building a bot's framework is not a work of few weeks, it will take sometime to get it up and running and till we publish the code on Github. The bot that we made during the workshop is currently serves the only purpose to fetch errors on Wikipedia as a "reader"; it cannot "edit" as can be seen on the video below. However, we are working to clear up the code and publicize it on Github for more people to get involved. Apart from this, I have plans to do workshops on Lua locally in January 2017.