MediaWiki Club, India/Activities

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The proposal is to conduct Mini TTT across the country and a few hackathons as well. All these culminate to a MediaWiki Conference hopefully by November or December 2017. All programs are planned to be conducted in association with the Center for Internet & Society - Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K).

Proposed Activities and Timeline

Activity	Time	Intended for
Mini Technical and MediaWiki TTT (Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai)	June - October 2017	Technical & MediaWiki training
1^st MediaWiki Conference India + Hackathon	December 2017	All technical contributors and enthusiasts

Known Resource Persons (in the past)

The following people are known to have significant expertise and working experience in MediaWiki and other technical aspects of Wikipedia and have conducted talks/tutorials catering to a wide variety of audience.

MediaWiki

Tony Thomas (WMF GSoC admin and MediaWiki core contributor) (lives abroad)
Srijan Agarwal (MediaWiki contributor and former GSoC student)
Harsh Kothari
Yuvi Panda (lives abroad)
Vishwa Prabha
Omshivaprakash H L
Pavithra
Srikar Kashyap Pulipaka (upto basic extension development and customization)

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Technical

Vishwa Prabha
Tito Dutta (tools, scripts, gadgets, lab)

Syllabus

Technical Training

MWTTT 2017 syllabus

MediaWiki introduction

Introducing the MediaWiki framework
Under the hood design
Installing the LAMP/WAMP stack
Introduction to Version Control (Git)
Installing MediaWiki
Basic customization
Installing extensions
Creation of basic extensions
Basic Bot creation and automation using pywikibot and wikitools library
Final Day Hackathon

Comments / Discussion

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