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Marty Hernandez Avedon (he/they), Outreachy Winter 2018 Intern and Contributor at Mediawiki

I'm a software developer from New York City.

I attended Pursuit (formerly known as C4Q) from 2016-2017, after teaching myself how to program with Python, and learning some basic web development skills.

Upon graduating from Pursuit, I worked on some iOS apps, tutored, and taught myself Java and C#.

In 2018, I apprenticed at Microsoft, on Azure's R & D team.

Prior to coding, I used to write short web articles and do print design for local businesses and nonprofits.

Internship

Picture of the Day Viewer app screenshot

My internship ran from December 2018 until March 2019, with a trial period in October. It was sponsored by Outreachy, a project of the Software Freedom Conservancy.

Part of my internship involved working on a Phabricator task entitled Investigate and improve MediaWiki Action API documentation .

I ran biweekly posts on martyav.github.io, about my work. This one details my project and workflow pretty thoroughly.

Project description

Improve top 50 viewed pages of the MediaWiki Action API & create a demo app to educate users

MediaWiki is the software many popular wikis run on, including the English Wikipedia. However, the documentation for using our numerous web APIs is inconsistent from article to article, and sometimes article content is incomplete or unclear.

Because MediaWiki-based projects have high visibility and are frequently used by educational programs, the documentation improvements on the top 50 pages will be very useful both to developers and site maintainers of MediaWiki-based sites, and to student who use the APIs to learn practical web development skills.

Mentors

App

Picture of the Day Viewer Early drafts & brainstorming available on User:Martyav/Apps

Tutorial

API:Picture of the day viewer

Articles

24/27 total completed - 3 started during pre-internship period - 24 started during internship - 3 unfinished

Article Activity
#	Date Started	Title	Completed	Draft
--	02-Oct-2018	API:Images	19-Oct-2018	Last draft
--	22-Oct-2018	API:Lists	15-Jan-2019	Last draft
--	23-Oct-2018	API:Redirects	31-Oct-2018	Last draft
Internship started 04-Dec-2018
01	04-Dec-2018	API:Properties	17-Jan-2019	Last draft
02	06-Dec-2018	API:Links	13-Dec-2018	Last draft
03	10-Dec-2018	API:Users	13-Dec-2018	Last draft
04	13-Dec-2018	API:Allpages	14-Dec-2018	Last draft
05	13-Dec-2018	API:Info	14-Dec-2018	Last draft
06	17-Dec-2018	API:Imageinfo	20-Dec-2018	Last draft
07	17-Dec-2018	API:Allimages	20-Dec-2018	Last draft
08	17-Dec-2018	API:Data formats	WIP (discussion)	Last draft
09	17-Dec-2018	API:Edit	10-Jan-2019	Last draft
10	24-Dec-2018	API:Categories	26-Dec-2018	Last draft
11	24-Dec-2018	API:Allcategories	26-Dec-2018	Last draft
12	28-Dec-2018	API:Backlinks	03-Jan-2019	Last draft
13	31-Dec-2018	API:Allusers	03-Jan-2019	Last draft
14	04-Jan-2019	API:Random	17-Jan-2019	Last draft
15	04-Jan-2019	API:Logout	17-Jan-2019	Last draft
16	08-Jan-2019	API:Import	WIP (permissions)	Last draft
17	14-Jan-2019	API:Move	07-Feb-2019	Last draft
18	14-Jan-2019	API:User_group_membership	24-Jan-2019	Last draft
19	17-Jan-2019	API:Parameter information	23-Jan-2019	Last draft
20	21-Jan-2019	API:Watchlist feed	07-Feb-2019	Last draft
21	24-Jan-2019	API:Watch	05-Feb-2019	Last draft
22	28-Jan-2019	API:Protect	WIP (permissions)	Last draft
23	06-Jan-2019	API:Alllinks	16-Feb-2019	Last draft
24	06-Jan-2019	API:Usercontribs	16-Feb-2019	Last draft

Work Log

At Wikipedia Day 2019, in Manhattan (front, far left).

Week	Dates	Summary
Leadup	16-Nov 03-Dec	Signed contract, joined Outreachy Zulip, set up user page, set up RSS feed, started practicing Python, first blog post.
01	04-Dec 08-Dec	Researched articles + added to spreadsheet, tightening up app proposal, started first article + second article, made brief blog post, made official week 1 blog post.
02	09-Dec 15-Dec	Started third article. Spoke to User:SSethi (WMF) about translations. Submitted pull requests for API:Links and API:Users sample code to repo. Started translation tagging edits to API:Lists sandbox and API:Properties sandbox. Completed second and third articles. Submitted app proposal. Started fourth and fifth articles. Submitted pull requests for API:Allpages and API:Info sample code. Completed fourth and fifth articles.
03	16-Dec 22-Dec	Submitted feedback to Outreachy. Started sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth articles. Submitted pull request for API:Edit sample code. Posted week 3 blog. Submitted API:Allimages and API:Imageinfo sample code. Completed sixth and seventh articles.
04	23-Dec 29-Dec	Started tenth and eleventh articles. Submitted pull requests for API:Categories and API:Allcategories sample code. Continued refining ninth article (API:Edit). Completed tenth and eleventh articles. Started twelfth article.
05	30-Dec 05-Jan	Started thirteenth article. Continued work on ninth article (API:Edit). Submitted pull requests for sample code from twelfth and thirteenth articles. Posted week 5 blog. Completed twelfth and thirteenth articles. Started fourteenth article. Started fifteenth article.
06	06-Jan 12-Jan	Continued work on fourteenth and fifteenth articles. Submitted pull request for API:Random sample code. Requested help on translation tags and completing an edit with a CAPTCHA. Continued work on ninth article. Made pull request for API:Logout sample code. Started sixteenth article. Completed ninth article. Got sysop privileges for thetestwiki.org.
07	13-Jan 19-Jan	Attended Wikipedia Day NYC. Started work on seventeenth article. Started eighteenth article. Submitted pull request for API:User group membership sample code. Started wireframes for app. Completed API:Lists from pre-internship. Updated API:Edit. Completed API:Logout. Completed API:Random. Completed API:Properties. Started nineteenth article. Wrote week 7 blog post. Created Meta userpage for other wikis.
08	20-Jan 26-Jan	Submitted sample code for API:Parameter information. Started work on twentieth article. Completed API:Parameter information. Submitted sample code for API: Move and API: Import for extra help. Started planning trip to Write the Docs Portland. Completed API:User group membership. Submitted sample code for API:Watchlist feed. Started twenty first article.
09	27-Jan 02-Feb	Started twenty second article. Fixed issues with API:Watchlist feed pull request. Continued work on twentieth article and twenty first articles. Updated sample code for API:Move and API:Watchlist feed. Research and planning for web apps, including userflow: Quiz, Contributions visualizer, Picture of the day
10	03-Feb 09-Feb	Updated sample code for API:Move. Submitted a pull request for API:Watch. Updated drafts of twentieth, twenty first, and twenty second articles. Started draft of tutorial. Made inquiry for examples of watchlist token sharing on Discourse. Completed API:Watch. Started twenty third and twenty fourth pages. Completed API:Watchlist feed and API:Move. submitted sample code for API:Alllinks and API:Usercontribs. Got basic functionality going & made pull request for Picture of the Day Viewer app, for further review. Updated styling on app.
11	10-Feb 16-Feb	Continued work on Picture of the Day Viewer app and tutorial. Completed API:Alllinks and API:Usercontribs.
12	17-Feb 23-Feb	Completed user interaction feature on Picture of the Day Viewer app. Submitted tutorial for initial feedback. Performed some house-keeping on articles list on user page. Updated app as per suggestions regarding styling, linting & where request is made -- re-organized app to use Jinja instead of Javascript to present dynamic content, as a consequence.
13	24-Feb 03-Mar	More app refactoring; revised tutorial to match current app; removed extraneous information from tutorial and added code folding to tighten it from 47k to 38k bytes. Second review of app. Completed changes requested from second review & had app accepted into repo. Re-organized tutorial article and cut it down to 19k.
14	04-Mar	Made copy edits on tutorial and pushed it to the mainspace, at API:Picture of the day viewer

Current Project: Deployment Pipeline