**Workshop Title**
Installation of MediaWiki (development env) and learning of VisualEditor (writing articles on Wikipedia)
**Draft Agenda of the Workshop**
Start Time: 9:00am and End Time: 5:00pm
Part 1
* General introduction of organisers of workshop, attendees **[15mins]**
* Talk about the Wikimedia Community UG Cameroon **[15mins]**
* Separation of the attendees into those interested in Writing and Development **[10mins]**
* Light refreshment while preparing to start the workshop **[10mins]**
* Installation and setting up of MediaWiki and Learning of VisualEditor **[2hrs 10mins]**
* Create account on https://www.mediawiki.org and https://en.wikimedia.org. **[10mins]**
* Follow Gerrit Tutorials and online resources during the workshop **[1hr 30mins]**
* If possible, work on some patches and develop some test articles **[30mins]**
* Question and Answer session on what has been don in the workshop **[30mins]**
* General discussion, Wikimedia Related talks, Advices from organisers and sharing of Wikimedia Swags to audience **[30mins]**
* BREAK BREAK BREAK **[1hr]**
* During this period, we can take individual pictures and catch some fun and do some personalised discussion and other unrelated workshop activities
Part 2
* Practical examples and real work related to the knowledge acquired in part 1 of the workshop **[1 hr]**
* Discussion of upcoming opportunities in Wikimedia such as Outreach for women, GSoC, Wikimedia Hackathon and conferences, Edit-A-thons etc… **[30mins]**
* Group pictures to be uploaded on commons (as many as possible) **[30mins]**
* Distribution of prices to students and merchandising to attendees. **[30mins]**
** <prices criteria will be put here soon>
* Conclusion, group eating and drinking, sharing of ideas and closing of the event **[30mins]**
* Including cleaning and rearrangement of the place
* Disposing of waste after eating
**Point of Focus**
This workshop will focus on 2 main activities which are;
* Guiding newbies on how to setup MediaWiki locally and setup their development environments to start contributing the Wikimedia projects (MediaWiki core and extensions).
* Teaching newbies (mostly interested in writing and publishing articles on Wikipedia) how to use VisualEditor which they will use to write their articles and publish.
**Information about workshop**
* Estimated number of attendees = **Min: 30 and Max: 50**
* Location of the workshop = **Buea, Cameroon**
* Host = **Wikimedia Community User Group Cameroon**
* Date of workshop = **14th January, 2017 (agreed date)**
* Workshop organisers = **Alangi Derick N(@D3r1ck01), Moba Melvis(@Melvis_R), Fonkeng Rocard (@Rocardho), Epole Melanie (@Em212016), Egbe Eugene(@Eugene233 )**
* Duration = **8 hours** (4 hours part 1 and 3:30mins part 2)
**Preparations before the event**
* Online sensitisation of audience through mediums like: **Twitter, Facebook, Emails** etc...
* Creating of a Google Doc for registration for the event so we could keep track of the names and info about the users/audience that will attend the shop. Here: [[https://goo.gl/forms/KCNKZwugNl39XFhZ2|Registration Form]]
* Do a plan (agenda) for how the workshop will take place and attach to this ticket.
**Merits of the workshop**
* Through this event, the number of user accounts on https://www.mediawiki.org and https://en.wikipedia.org will increase and the important part is that we will get users from Cameroon.
* This event will also bring in new developers and writers into the Wikimedia foundation hence increasing the number of volunteers in the foundation.
* Making people aware of the movement is a means in which even more people will be aware since the information will go round and awareness of Wikimedia in Cameroon will improve.
**Support from Wikimedia Foundation**
* Our audience need some encouragement and exciting stuffs. We will like Wikimedia to help us with Wikimedia Swags like Stickers etc... This will be given to the audience and some for them to share and give to others to enforce awareness
* We will need a space to hold the workshop and will need to rent this space for a particular number of hours. We will need support from Wikimedia Foundation to help us fund this for us to get the space, internet connectivity and get the workshop to run.
* Also, we will also want that the audience fill lively in the workshop during breaks so some snacks will be available for the audience. This refreshment will keep them up and running so they don't feel bored of the workshop and exhausted easily.
**Resources to be used**
* [[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Tutorial|Setting up MediaWiki locally and Gerrit]]
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