[Wikitech-l] OPW Proposal for Welcoming new contributors to Wikimedia Labs and Tool Labs
Hello all, I am Dinu Kumarasiri from Sri Lanka. I am interested in the project Welcoming new contributors to Wikimedia Labs and Tool Labs project for OPW. Following is the links to my project page and detailed proposal: [1] Project Page : https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Welcome_to_labs [2] Detailed Proposal : https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Welcome_to_Labs_-_Project_Proposal I hope to hear some feedback on this and any improvements i can make on this proposal. I am also interested in the Wikidata Outreach project for which I have previously discussed on this mailing list. Thanks in advance!! Best Regards, Dinu -- Dinu Kumarasiri*,* *Undergraduate,* *Department of Computer Science and Engineering,* *University of Moratuwa* ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Engineering Community Team changes
Congratulations Quim and Sumana!! On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Scott MacLeod helia...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations, Quim and Sumana! :) Scott On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 7:16 PM, Frances Hocutt frances.hoc...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations to both of you! -Frances On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi everyone, I'd like to announce some changes in the Engineering Community Team[1]. The headlines: * Quim Gil is taking over as the new Engineering Community Manager, effective immediately * Sumana Harihareswara is stepping into a new role as Senior Technical Writer, also effective immediately The details: The Engineering Community Team (ECT) is made up of Andre Klapper, Guillaume Paumier, Quim Gil, and Sumana Harihareswara. We started ECT with Sumana leading the group back in 2012. The ECT team has flourished under Sumana's leadership. Our internship programs have scaled up pretty dramatically, all of the while increasing in quality of output and diversity of students. We've also gotten steadily better in engineering communications, with weekly engineering updates (translated even!) and great two way communication around software bugs and other site issues. She would be the first to point out that a lot of this was driven by members of the team, but she set up the conditions for many of the team's achievements (e.g. getting us involved in Outreach Program for Women, tirelessly recruiting and nurturing new volunteers, and working with the team to hammer out requirements for the new things they've rolled out). Sumana led the team until taking a three month sabbatical to attend Hacker School in New York starting in October of last year. In the interim, Quim Gil stepped in to lead ECT. After coming back from sabbatical, Sumana has decided that she would like to take on a role with more of a technical emphasis to utilize her newly honed skills. As it turned out, we also independently identified the need to hire a technical writer (even going so far as advertising an RFP while Sumana was out, though we weren't able to fill the role). Sumana's increased focus on technical work combined with her background as a professional writer made this a pretty obvious fit for the role. Her current project is organizing RFC review[2] and documenting the process, using the process for reviewing MediaWiki architectural changes as a means for documenting our architecture. Thankfully, Sumana hired a ready-made successor with Quim Gil, who was until now our Technical Contributor Coordinator. In the past couple of years, he overseen a big increase in the number of interns that get involved in our projects via Google Summer of Code and Outreach Program for Women. Quim has deep experience in engineering community management, and kept things working really well during Sumana's absence. With Sumana moving into a different role that then one vacated by Quim, Quim will hold onto many of his previous technical contributor coordination responsibilities. So, for things you used to contact Quim about, please still contact Quim. Congratulations Quim and Sumana on your new roles! Rob [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Engineering_Community_Team [2] RFC review: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.htm ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Dinu Kumarasiri*,* *Undergraduate,* *Department of Computer Science and Engineering,* *University of Moratuwa* ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] Fwd: Wikidata Outreach project for FOSS Outreach Program for Women
Hi, I am Dinu Kumarasiri an undergraduate at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa. I am Interested in Wikidata Outreach project for the FOSS outreach Program for Women. Following is the link to the proposal of my outreach campaign. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Vkj8d9q8WiVe2GZ2wkcIwVOLdDr3KaGjxa0V3mIo484 I hope to do this campaign in two categories ; improving documentation and social media campaign. A detailed plan of the outreach campaign can be found in the given link. Media wiki page for the project proposal is given below: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project_Eclipse_:_Wikidata_Outreach_Project I hope to hear some feedback on this and any improvements i can make. Thanks in advance!! -- Dinu Kumarasiri*,* *Undergraduate,* *Department of Computer Science and Engineering,* *University of Moratuwa* -- Dinu Kumarasiri*,* *Undergraduate,* *Department of Computer Science and Engineering,* *University of Moratuwa* ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Wikidata Outreach project for FOSS Outreach Program for Women
Thank you very much for the thorough feedback. I changed the proposal with your suggestions and answered the questions. Looking forward to hear more suggestions and improvements on this regard. Dinu On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 4:59 AM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: Thank you for being interested in Wikimedia, Wikidata, and open source! I've asked some questions in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Project_Eclipse_:_Wikidata_Outreach_Project#Big_questionsand as comments in the Google Doc https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/document/d/1Vkj8d9q8WiVe2GZ2wkcIwVOLdDr3KaGjxa0V3mIo484/. I hope they help you improve your proposal! Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Dinu Sandaru sandar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am Dinu Kumarasiri an undergraduate at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa. I am Interested in Wikidata Outreach project for the FOSS outreach Program for Women. Following is the link to the proposal of my outreach campaign. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Vkj8d9q8WiVe2GZ2wkcIwVOLdDr3KaGjxa0V3mIo484 I hope to do this campaign in two categories ; improving documentation and social media campaign. A detailed plan of the outreach campaign can be found in the given link. Media wiki page for the project proposal is given below: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project_Eclipse_:_Wikidata_Outreach_Project I hope to hear some feedback on this and any improvements i can make. Thanks in advance!! -- Dinu Kumarasiri*,* *Undergraduate,* *Department of Computer Science and Engineering,* *University of Moratuwa* -- Dinu Kumarasiri*,* *Undergraduate,* *Department of Computer Science and Engineering,* *University of Moratuwa* ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Dinu Kumarasiri*,* *Undergraduate,* *Department of Computer Science and Engineering,* *University of Moratuwa* ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
