User:Tito (CIS-A2K)/12N2
MediaWiki Training-2019 edit
What?: MediaWiki training or MWT is a residential workshop to groom technical leadership skill among the Indian Wikimedia community members. Between 2015 and 2018 MWT was conducted 4 times. This year we conducted the fifth iteration of MediaWiki Training.
When and Where?: On 7–9 June 2019, the fifth iteration of MWT was conducted at Bangalore. There were 10 participants in the workshop. 2 of the participants were female.
How?: 7 of the 10 participants were/had been Google Summer of Code participants. User:Jayprakash12345 was the primary trainer in this workshop, and User:SSethi (WMF) was an advisor. Some of the topics trained/discussed in this workshop were: Introduction to MediaWiki, technical areas such as bots, userscripts, cloud services etc., SUL Vs Wikimedia Developer Account, introduction to technical areas such as bots, userscripts, cloud services etc, understanding of extensions, different parts of MediaWiki extensions, localisation, UserScripts creation etc.
Impact made:: During the workshop, the participants worked and were able to merge 8 patches. After the workshop, the participants developed 2 tools:
It was a great event. I learnt a lot about the Wikimedia platform in general and also learnt about the various use cases it can be applied into. The best part was the hands-on experience we got. I learnt about Wikimedia API which is actually helping me a lot during my GSoC project as well.
Among the various improvements, I would like to see a platform with more people and so that we interact with the various communities such as the translator community and so on.
I would like to greatly thank Tito Dutta, Ananth Subray and Jay Prakash for this wonderful workshop. —User:Muhdusman
Followup plan: As a followup of the national-level MediaWiki training, a zonal level MediaWiki training has been planned at Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology (VVIT) and Amritha University by the participants with the involvement of the local community members. The next main MediaWiki training will take place in 2020.
Learning:
- Encouraging community members to use their expertise in leading workshops.
- More women involvement should be encouraged.
- Small, focused and dedicated group of participants helped to achieve a better outcome for the technical events.
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MediaWiki Training Bangalore -
Mini MediaWiki Training Theni -
Mini MediaWiki Training VVIT
Mini MediaWiki Trainings
Mini MediaWiki Training
Other than the national MediaWiki training, CIS-A2K conducts/support MediaWiki training for specific language community, region, or institutions.
- MediaWiki Training at Theni: On 22 and 23 January 2019 CIS-A2K conducted a mini MediaWiki training at Nadar Saraswathi College of Engineering and Technology, Theni, Tamil Nadu. 20 computer science students of the college participated in this workhsop.
- MediaWiki Training at VVIT: On 21–23 February 2019, VVIT WikiConnect, with support of CIS-A2K conducted a MediaWiki training at VVIT, Andhra Pradesh. 10 students of the college participated in this workshop. A detailed report may be seen here.
