Hi, Thank you for showing interest in open source programming, there is a guideline for hacking pywikibot in here <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/Development_guideline> There are lots of open bugs <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=Pywikibot> you can work on and if you are not very familiar with pywikibot you can read the page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot> in mediawiki wiki
Feel free to ask question anytime, in here or the IRC channel Best <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/Development_guideline> On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Travis Briggs <audiod...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Travis Briggs and I'm a software developer who currently works > at Google in California. I've always had a soft spot for Wikipedia and > wondered how I could get more involved and contribute more. Today, I was > thinking about how it's a shame that Media Wiki is written in PHP, as that > is a language that I'm not really interested in hacking on in my spare > time. Then I found pywikibot. Python is probably the language I have the > most current experience in, besides maybe Javascript, and I'm familiar with > web API usages. > > All this to say, I'd like to see if I can help out on the pywikibot > project itself, though I don't have a specific wiki that I work on or a > specific bot that I'd like to write. > > I've gotten as far as installing a vagrant instance of Media Wiki and > cloning the "core" branch of pywikibot, though I haven't gotten them > talking to each other just yet. > > Thanks! > -Travis > > _______________________________________________ > Pywikipedia-l mailing list > Pywikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l > > -- Amir
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