KNUST Wikitech Club Launching and Onboarding Season/Documentation

The KNUST Wikitech Club Launching and Onboarding Season

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📋 Program

📝 Documentation

📅 Schedule

🤝 Team

👥 Organizers

Creating a Friendly Space

The Universal Code of Conduct,Code of Conduct for Wikimedia's Technical Spaces and Friendly Space Policy will be in effect throughout the event, on all platforms and discussion channels.

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Events and resources for newcomers

If you’re new to the Wikimedia project and/or to development, here’s a list of events you could consider joining:

• 2022 Hackathon in Kwara State
• Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 (Ghana) Local Meet up
• Wikimedia Hackathon Local Meetup Accra 2023
• Small Wiki Toolkits workshops
• WikiConference India in March 2023 will have a hackathon/technical track
• Pre-hackathon events organized by local communities
• Wikimania 2023 is an event that everyone can join and that will include technical sessions
• Wiki Indaba Hackathon welcomes remote participants
• Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon 2024

You can also check this list of resources to get on board on technical contribution:

• Wikimedia Developer Portal
• Learn about Phabricator
• Information for new developers
• Basic skills needed to contribute to development of MediaWiki core and MediaWiki extensions
• An overview of the MediaWiki Action API
• The Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) provides a way for tools to access Wikidata data
• Gerrit, the tool to handle code reviews
• Special:MyLanguage/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