Re: [Wikitech-l] Suggestions for tasks for new contributors during hackathon

2012-06-23 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 06/22/2012 10:53 PM, Andrew Garrett wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Chris McMahon cmcma...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On the QA front, this came up in a WMF discussion recently, and I proposed it as a Weekend Testing Americas session, but it would work equally well at Wikimania, and it

Re: [Wikitech-l] Suggestions for tasks for new contributors during hackathon

2012-06-23 Thread Krinkle
On Jun 23, 2012, at 10:28 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: On 06/22/2012 10:53 PM, Andrew Garrett wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Chris McMahon cmcma...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On the QA front, this came up in a WMF discussion recently, and I proposed it as a Weekend Testing Americas

Re: [Wikitech-l] Suggestions for tasks for new contributors during hackathon

2012-06-22 Thread Andrew Garrett
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Chris McMahon cmcma...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On the QA front, this came up in a WMF discussion recently, and I proposed it as a Weekend Testing Americas session, but it would work equally well at Wikimania, and it fits our goal of bringing in more community

[Wikitech-l] Suggestions for tasks for new contributors during hackathon

2012-06-21 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Hey all wikitech peeps, In helping organize the upcoming Wikimania DC Hackathon, I wanted to ask if there are particular categories of work that people with fairly limited experience could do that would have a meaningful impact. For example: * Updating extensions to work with the latest version

Re: [Wikitech-l] Suggestions for tasks for new contributors during hackathon

2012-06-21 Thread Nischay Nahata
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:13 AM, Asheesh Laroia li...@asheesh.org wrote: Hey all wikitech peeps, In helping organize the upcoming Wikimania DC Hackathon, I wanted to ask if there are particular categories of work that people with fairly limited experience could do that would have a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Suggestions for tasks for new contributors during hackathon

2012-06-21 Thread Chris McMahon
On the QA front, this came up in a WMF discussion recently, and I proposed it as a Weekend Testing Americas session, but it would work equally well at Wikimania, and it fits our goal of bringing in more community testing nicely: Wikipedia has a large number of open bug reports, like around

Re: [Wikitech-l] Suggestions for tasks for new contributors during hackathon

2012-06-21 Thread Ryan Lane
I'm especially interested in tasks where there's a lot of work to do -- that way, people can be given lots of hands-on things to do that can provide practice to help people be more comfortable with tools like git and gerrit, or more comfortable with the MediaWiki hooks, or where the task