This task is about understanding the technical needs & challenges of Indic community members as contributors to their language wiki.
This will help shape and guide the planned workshop in India in June 2020.
Description
Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
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Resolved | None | T242542 Develop, test and evaluate different formats to build technical capacity in smaller wikis | |||
Resolved | srishakatux | T235583 Develop workshop concept with partner community for technical workshops in FY2019-20 Q4 | |||
Resolved | srishakatux | T246842 Organize an online workshop series for Indic language small wikis | |||
Resolved | srishakatux | T246845 Understand the technical needs of Indic communities via a survey |
Event Timeline
In December of 2019, a survey was conducted by community members who are planning WikiConference in India end of this year: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/WikiConference_India_2020. We took advantage of this survey to ask 3 questions that were to understand the technical challenges the community members face and skills they would like to learn. The responses were super helpful and informed us what a small technical workshop in India (that we are currently planning on) should cover. Responses from the survey are in here (till we find a better venue):
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fe_L7tfKYiJHCJlfjkd5_8nejXnOCVvnkGqvpBlYrvM/edit.
In a nutshell, Writing user scripts and gadgets, Wikidata queries, developing bots, using Phabricator and developing Lua-based templates are the top five technical skills (in order) contributors want to learn.