Wikimedia Tech Safari Program/Documentation

Wikimedia Tech Safari Program

⚙️ Overview

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📋 Program

📝 Documentation

📅 Schedule

🤝 Team

💬 Discussion

👥 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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Photos, videos & slides

Slides and Instructions

• Akwaaba to Commons for Android: Code the App that Lets Your World Share on Wikimedia
• Google Summer of Code instructions
• Introduction to Wikimedia Cloud Services - Tech Safari 2024.pdf
• Wikimedia Tech Safari 2024 - Code the Next Wave - Building Wikifunctions with WikiLambda's Power.pdf
• Scribe Wikimedia Tech Safari Presentation.pdf

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Videos

Experience Sharing Video

Closing Ceremony

Sessions

Toolforge Paas Deep Dive

Wikifunctions Session (On-Wiki)

Video Cut Tool Session

Kiwix Session

Commons for Android Session

Scribe Session

Wikimedia Cloud Services Session

Wikilambda's Power Session

Blog posts

• Blog Post by Kalakpagh.

• Blog post by Ogalihillary

• Blog Post by Akwugo

• Blog post by Umar2z
• Blog Post by Micheal Kaluba

• Blog post by Umabruka

• Blog post by Accuratecy051
• Blog post by Ruby D-Brown
• Navigating Wikimedia Tech Safari Program Through Kiwix Development&Localization (Translatewiki.net) by Accuratecy051
• My Journey with translatewiki: A Diff Story From Tech Safari to Translation Triumph by Umabruka
• African Wikimedians Tech Community: My Tech Safari Experience by Akwugo
• Blog post by Open Foundation West Africa
• Navigating the Wikimedia Tech Safari: My Virtual Journey! by Joris Darlington Quarshie

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