Wikimedia Tech Safari Program/Newcomers

What to do if you're new

There are several ways to participate in the event as a newcomer.

Attend sessions marked as good for newcomers

All sessions list whether or not they are good for newcomers.

Here are a few we strongly recommend:

• Overview of technical areas and projects in the Wikimedia ecosystem
• Ask anything about Phabricator
• Discussion about writing technical documentation: what helps and what gets in the way?

Ask questions

Ask questions in the chat of each session or reach out to the speaker after the session through their contact details.

Introduce yourself to others

This is a great chance to meet people

• Add yourself and your interests to the participants page.
• Check out other communication spaces.

Explore resources for newcomers

• Check out the New Developers page for project ideas.
• Basic skills needed to contribute to development of MediaWiki core and MediaWiki extensions
• An overview of the MediaWiki Action API
• About the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) provides a way for tools to access Wikidata data
• About Gerrit, the tool we use to handle code reviews
• 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