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KaiOS Wikipedia App: Create documentation and allow contributions
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Hi everyone! Thanks for working on this app.

I'll pretend to be a volunteer who is interested in contributing code to the KaiOS-Wikipedia-app:

Please provide documentation and make this project discoverable, in order to allow collaboration. WMF's obligation is not just to share code, but to cultivate a healthy community of contributors around the source code. For example, it seems that actual instructions how to build and how to run this code base do exist, but unfortunately in non-discoverable places.

Thanks a lot in advance!

(PS: Reading about the WMF Inuka Team and its focus, I'm also wondering if there are projects which could be promoted in WMF's Outreach Programs? They focus on underrepresented groups in tech and have a pretty global representation.)

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Aklapper created this task.Feb 28 2020, 7:02 PM
Aklapper updated the task description. (Show Details)Feb 28 2020, 7:06 PM
SBisson subscribed.Feb 28 2020, 7:45 PM

Hi @Aklapper. thanks for filling this. You included good places where we'll have to document our work.

Part of this is in progress in T245564 but I would like to ask for your patience. For a few different reasons (challenges of KaiOS, new team, product is still very experimental), we would be able to accept external contributors but I don't really want to encourage it at this time. I want to think about this more after the first successful launch.

Aklapper added a comment.Mar 3 2020, 2:05 PM

@SBisson: Thanks! I understand that this is not a good project to contribute to (yet). However, I could not have found out without your comment in this task, so isn't that worth to document? :) It would be great if you allowed me to find out about this project (also in case someone tried to reinvent this wheel), find out that it currently does not make much sense yet to contribute, and if I was still interested to take a sneak preview how I could build / run that project. Do you agree?

hueitan awarded a token.Mar 3 2020, 4:08 PM
Aklapper added a comment.Mar 18 2020, 10:19 AM
In T246475#5936807, @Aklapper wrote:

@SBisson: Thanks! I understand that this is not a good project to contribute to (yet). However, I could not have found out without your comment in this task, so isn't that worth to document? :) It would be great if you allowed me to find out about this project (also in case someone tried to reinvent this wheel), find out that it currently does not make much sense yet to contribute, and if I was still interested to take a sneak preview how I could build / run that project. Do you agree?

@SBisson: Hi, do you agree? (I'm also happy to help setting up basic documentation if your team prioritizes other things.)

SBisson added a comment.Mar 18 2020, 1:14 PM

@Aklapper yes I agree. We're working hard to have our first release asap. We have this page now: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_for_KaiOS and we've improved the README in the repo.

We certainly welcome your help to fill the documentation gaps.

Aklapper added a comment.EditedMar 20 2020, 12:26 PM

Thanks. I think https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_for_KaiOS should maybe get moved to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Wikipedia_for_KaiOS and/or listed on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps etc.

Aklapper mentioned this in T248157: Go through Apps mediawiki.org pages.Mar 20 2020, 12:28 PM
SBisson added a subscriber: • AMuigai.Mar 20 2020, 1:50 PM
In T246475#5986742, @Aklapper wrote:

Thanks. I think https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_for_KaiOS should maybe get moved to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Wikipedia_for_KaiOS and/or listed on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps etc.

Makes sense. This should be coordinated with @AMuigai

• AMuigai moved this task from Backlog to Q2 FY2020-21 on the Inuka-Team board.Apr 6 2020, 1:16 PM
• AMuigai moved this task from Q2 FY2020-21 to Backlog on the Inuka-Team board.
Johan subscribed.Apr 7 2020, 2:43 PM

mw:Wikimedia Apps now links to mw:Wikipedia for KaiOS. Please update that link if the page is moved.

SBisson edited projects, added Inuka-Team (Kanban); removed Inuka-Team.Feb 2 2021, 8:45 PM

Putting this on our radar.

We want clear documentation to help volunteers understand how they can work with us and contribute to this app. On mw.org and/or github. More details to come.

Aklapper closed this task as Resolved.EditedFeb 10 2021, 9:55 AM
Aklapper claimed this task.

I guess this is sufficient for the time being from my side; feel free to reopen if you'd like to do more or such.

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