Develop a starter kit for small wikis containing a recommended set of Templates, Gadgets, Bots, Tools, etc
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	Jan 12 2020, 5:44 PM

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What a starter kit means?

Starter kit is a set of recommended tools, templates, gadgets, bots, etc to help small wikis get started.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/Starter_kit

Technical areas starter kit will cover

Templates
Bots
Tools
User scripts and Gadgets
<Add a topic>

TODOS

Help expand the list of topics (listed above) that the starter kit should cover and develop recommendations for each topic. See existing tasks:

T246734: Small Wiki Toolkits: How-to guidelines and/or potential recommendations for AbuseFilter
T246180: Small Wiki Toolkits: How-to guidelines and/or potential recommendations for Templates
T246181: Small Wiki Toolkits: How-to guidelines and/or potential recommendations for Gadgets
T246182: Small Wiki Toolkits: How-to guidelines and/or potential recommendations for Tools
T246183: Small Wiki Toolkits: How-to guidelines and/or potential recommendations for Bots & Tools

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Status	Assigned	Task
Resolved	None	T242542 Develop, test and evaluate different formats to build technical capacity in smaller wikis
Resolved	None	T242545 Develop a starter kit for small wikis containing a recommended set of Templates, Gadgets, Bots, Tools, etc
Resolved	Aklapper	T241646 Small Wiki Toolkits: How-to guidelines and/or potential recommendations for Main page customization (adaptive/responsive CSS basics)
Resolved	srishakatux	T246180 Small Wiki Toolkits: How-to guidelines and/or potential recommendations for Templates
Resolved	srishakatux	T246181 Small Wiki Toolkits: How-to guidelines and/or potential recommendations for Gadgets
Resolved	Aklapper	T245491 Clean up / improve Gadget tutorial related pages on mediawiki.org
Duplicate	srishakatux	T246182 Small Wiki Toolkits: How-to guidelines and/or potential recommendations for Tools
Resolved	srishakatux	T246183 Small Wiki Toolkits: How-to guidelines and/or potential recommendations for Bots & Tools
Resolved	Aklapper	T246734 Small Wiki Toolkits: How-to guidelines and/or potential recommendations for AbuseFilter
Resolved	srishakatux	T255320 Finalize the landing page for Starter kit
Resolved	srishakatux	T255735 Link meta:Small_wiki_toolkits/Starter_kit from relevant pages
Resolved	srishakatux	T257986 Announce the Starter Kit

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srishakatux created this task.Jan 12 2020, 5:44 PM

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srishakatux added a subtask: T241646: Small Wiki Toolkits: How-to guidelines and/or potential recommendations for Main page customization (adaptive/responsive CSS basics).Jan 12 2020, 5:46 PM

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Another "See Also" item would be site configuration changes, that's already documented at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_site_requests so I'm not going to create a subtask, for the time being.

Aklapper mentioned this in T247418: Create a dedicated project tag for #Small-Wiki-Tool-Kits.Mar 11 2020, 2:56 PM

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Aklapper closed subtask T246734: Small Wiki Toolkits: How-to guidelines and/or potential recommendations for AbuseFilter as Resolved.Apr 17 2020, 12:43 PM

Aklapper closed subtask T241646: Small Wiki Toolkits: How-to guidelines and/or potential recommendations for Main page customization (adaptive/responsive CSS basics) as Resolved.

A possible addition to the list of topics are some small stuff (not as complex as making a bot or even a tool) / task like T251050. In this particular case, it's hard to expect small (to medium) size wikis have someone who's comfortable with gerrit or even code in general.

@Gabrielchl: Hi, thanks for your comment! Stuff like T251050 is already covered by "Site configuration" on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits which links to https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_site_requests .
Now that page explicitly says "If you do not want to contribute technically, follow [[meta:Requesting wiki configuration changes]] instead."
Is that sufficient, or do you have any proposals or ideas what else could be improved?

@Aklapper Ahhh, missed that, looks good then, sorry and thanks a lot.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Vler3fzjigri6dfx is another good example for a smaller community needing help with their broken JavaScript in MediaWiki:Common.js. I tried to help a bit under my volunteer account but I don't think I was successful.
I'd welcome if someone could tell me how I/we could do better when it comes to communication and documentation in such cases. :-/

srishakatux closed subtask T246181: Small Wiki Toolkits: How-to guidelines and/or potential recommendations for Gadgets as Resolved.May 27 2020, 6:11 AM

srishakatux moved this task from Apr-Jun 2020 to Jul-Sep 2020 on the Developer-Advocacy board.Jun 25 2020, 4:18 PM

srishakatux edited projects, added Developer-Advocacy (Jul-Sep 2020); removed Developer-Advocacy (Apr-Jun 2020).

srishakatux closed subtask T255320: Finalize the landing page for Starter kit as Resolved.Jun 26 2020, 10:18 PM

srishakatux closed subtask T246183: Small Wiki Toolkits: How-to guidelines and/or potential recommendations for Bots & Tools as Resolved.Jul 14 2020, 9:42 PM

srishakatux closed subtask T246180: Small Wiki Toolkits: How-to guidelines and/or potential recommendations for Templates as Resolved.

Aklapper updated the task description. (Show Details)Jul 21 2020, 11:33 AM

srishakatux closed subtask T255735: Link meta:Small_wiki_toolkits/Starter_kit from relevant pages as Resolved.Jul 22 2020, 12:58 AM

srishakatux reopened subtask T255735: Link meta:Small_wiki_toolkits/Starter_kit from relevant pages as Open.

srishakatux closed subtask T257986: Announce the Starter Kit as Resolved.Jul 22 2020, 1:00 AM

srishakatux closed subtask T255735: Link meta:Small_wiki_toolkits/Starter_kit from relevant pages as Resolved.Jul 22 2020, 4:15 PM

Thanks, everyone who contributed to this task :-) Starter Kit is available here now https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/Starter_kit! If you have any further suggestions to improve the resource, feel free to file another task and tag it with Small-Wiki-Toolkits.

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