Grants talk:TPS/Ankitashukla/FOSSASIA 2016

Request funded

Dear Ankitashukla,

Thank you for submitting this request. The Participation Support Committee is glad to fund your efforts to present about Wikimedia, and your extension, at FOSSAsia.

Please review the next steps for your grant as described in "How the program works". Note that your post-event report must provide a link to an outcome from your participation, such as a learning pattern to teach others something you've learned at the event, a link to something new that was co-created by you and your fellow participants at the event, or a blog post you wrote to share your experience with others after the event.

Your last report for this program drew some concerns from the committee because your outcomes were not as tangible as we would have liked. We are approving your request now to allow sufficient time for a visa application, but we would like you to respond below in advance of the event with your plan for meeting the outcome requirements for this grant so the committee can provide support and feedback to help you succeed.

Our Grants Administrator will be in touch with you about your grant.

Thank you for work on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation!

Warm regards, --Marti (WMF) (talk) 00:27, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

MediaWiki extensions

Hi. I doubt you'll manage to cover both your extension and extension writing in general in such a short amount of time, but if you mention Wikipedia please make sure to stick to mw:Writing an extension for deployment. Your talk would instantly get more credible if you published your code in gerrit and improved the extension page. :) Nemo 07:38, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

I discovered one of the points was already addressed, although not documented. Fixed: [1]. Nemo 08:01, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

Agenda for the Talk

Hi,

I discussed with Harsh4101991, who has experience of delivering talks at FOSSASIA on four different topics.

These are the insights into the audience diversity:

• Not everyone is from a tech background
• There are various native speakers of several languages like Mandarin
• The talks have an audience strength of around 30-40 people
• The audience has many students too (who are willing to take the opportunity of involving themselves with open source)

Also the talk is short with request to time (around 20 mins). Nemo also suggested that discussing both the extension as well as extension development might not be feasible. Also, since this is not a hands-on workshop, but a talk, therefore people don't usually come with MediaWiki installed on their laptops. Therefore, an extension development session won't be fruitful as it would only involve me talking about the procedure and the audience listening.

Keeping these points in mind, I am planning on moving ahead with discussing the extension with focus on:

• basic key idea
• motivation
• how was it created
• a quick demo
• challenges faced
• future work
• explain steps for installing the extension
• questions- 2-3 mins

In short, I won't get into lots of technicality - since people are not prepared and not all are from tech background. I'll rather discuss the extension. My talk has been scheduled on the first day of the conference, so in case people are interested in learning more about extension development, I can talk to them offline and also redirect them to mediawiki irc channel.

Please let me know what are your view on this.

Thanks! Ankita Shukla (talk) 08:12, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

For "future work", you should probably offer ways for attendees to help with their specific language knowledge, i.e. by mentioning languages which would most use some help and where to get started. I suppose there are entry-level non-code opportunities in this area. Nemo 09:35, 14 March 2016 (UTC)