**Technical equity for smaller/underserved language communities and projects. **
This focus area is planned for the Wikimania Hackathon and Wikimania.
With this focus area, we hope to support wikis & their communities who don’t have many/any technical contributors and help bridge the gap between developer and editor communities. We would like to enable more people in addressing their specific local use cases, technical needs and generally provide different language wikis and project communities a space to exchange on a wide variety of topics. We hope that this is going to be a space to learn from each other, have fun, find support & give support.
**Sub-areas:**
- Technical Support: Workshops for beginners
- Hacking: Projects with a focus on developing bots, tools, gadgets for a language wiki or project community; projects with a focus on internationalisation
- Technical documentation/translation: Translation of technical documentation, help pages, system messages, tools
We’re looking for folks who would like to run workshops, or simply help people with:
- Simple bots, gadgets and tools to help address local use cases (e.g. maintenance & curation tasks …)
- Srishti: toolkits for a simple gadget, tool
- Intro to Toolforge/Cloud Services
- Internationalization & localisation of tools/software
- Customization of wikis
- Templates, Wikidata generated infoboxes
- How to enable or develop small extensions
- How to use translate wiki, translate extension …
- How to run a technical workshop (a kind of train the trainer)
- ...
The plan is to expand this focus area to Wikimania to get more people in who are not at the hackathon. We could continue with smaller workshops, office hours in a dedicated space at Wikimania. We’re also thinking of 1 panel in the Wikimania program, and something like a mix and match board for problems & already existing solutions … :-)