Volunteer coordination and outreach/Training materials
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Inventory of training materials to consolidate and organize. Note: we're especially lacking useful visuals/slides regarding code review training:
Stable enough materials
[edit]- How to become a MediaWiki hacker as a starting point
- MediaWiki architecture document/text
- Pretty much all the content of mediawiki.org
- Writing an extension for deployment
"Raw" materials
[edit]General:
- How to become a MediaWiki hacker/2011 Workshop — Sumana has audio? to check
- Check with Yuvi Panda: ask him about the hackathon he organized where people learned to hack MediaWiki
- RobLa's ZendCon presentation on gadgets, extensions, and...something else (October 2011)
- wikitech:File:Ryan Lane - How to be a part of the MediaWiki developer community.pdf
Code review:
- Code review management/July 2011 training — guillom has audio recordings of the sessions (provided by Rob Lanphier)
- Code review management/Aug 2011 training — audio recording
Testing:
- NOLA Hackathon/Sunday#Chad's test training (including audio)
- Trevor on unit testing -- slides
Extensions:
- How to write a MediaWiki extension (presentation by Andrew at Wikimania 2011) — video on youtube
- Check with Yuvi Panda: ask him about the hackathon he organized where people worked on extensions
- Performance, scalability and security for extension developers: Why your extension will not be enabled on Wikimedia wikis in its current state and what you can do about it
Git/source control:
- Brion's presentation at NOLA hackathon: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/NOLA_Hackathon/Sunday#Git_stuff, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Git_notes_-_NOLA_Hackathon_2011.pdf, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Git_notes_-_NOLA_Hackathon_2011.oga
Gadgets and user scripts: