Africa Wikimedia Technical Community/Project Scope/pt-br

Problema
Queremos construir uma equipe de desenvolvedores voluntários da Wikimedia da África devido aos seguintes problemas enfrentados em nosso continente:

For example a project like Wiki Loves Africa or Wiki Loves Women where a tool can be developed to analyze the data to rank and produce the results of the winners for that year etc.
 * Existem muito poucos desenvolvedores da África na Fundação Wikimedia (movimento). We wish to increase the numbers to fulfill the movements vision.
 * Volunteer developers to add more features on MediaWiki projects and its extensions including APIs etc. from Africa and in addition, develop tools/projects that solve common problems within the African context to promote the movement’s activities in a technical approach.
 * Avoid waiting on a small skewed group of developers to solve the many tech problems in the movement especially peculiar problems pertaining to volunteers from our terrain.
 * Lack of participation from African volunteers in tech inclined Global events in the movement such as Google Summer of Code, Google Code-In, Outreach program for women etc...

Solução proposta
We are currently a team of two ready to work with very experienced minds both in and out of the movement to make this idea a realized one. We intend to recruit volunteer developers and use the opportunity to champion the cause of the movement.

The plan so far is getting the following;

We believe it is reasonable in this sense as it's often easy for developers already contributing in the open stream to move to similar new projects.
 * A mailing list of volunteer developers in Africa to share ideas and topics of discussion with others to get them interested.
 * Tap into affiliates of the WMF and user groups of different movements (GDG, Python group, Linux group etc.) in each country to see if we could get some people interested in contributing to MediaWiki.
 * Use word of mouth in university institutions (to the science students/programming students/computer science) and see if we could get them interested in the movement's activities and to contribute (this would be done per country and stats will be shared).
 * Train prospective groups of developers in the select countries and motivate their continued efforts through the mailing list.
 * Organize a once a year meeting/hackathon to enhance and showcase their works.
 * Per country, we would keep the energy active by nominating some volunteers to build developer communities in their various communities and bringing all these communities together, we would have a large community in Africa which are developer based.

Metas/Objetivos
Tenha uma comunidade de desenvolvedores da África.


 * Atingir um total de 20 desenvolvedores ativos em todo o continente.
 * Participação de pelo menos 10 indivíduos no Summer of Code (GSoC) para 2018 da África.
 * Crie uma solução para pelo menos uma das principais preocupações técnicas da África.
 * Participe na resolução de questões da lista de desejos da comunidade.
 * Organize at least one continental hackathon.

Significância do projeto
This would benefit the African community in that they would be able to play around with MediaWiki and its extension (them learning how MediaWiki and development in the Foundation/movement works).

Getting a developer feel of Wikimedia projects and maybe start thinking of a project to help the African community and the movement as a whole. For a start we will be working on projects in the mainstream and/or on existing projects, fixing bugs and helping to build a growing ecosystem. However we look up to starting some projects in the future and solving real issues that pertains to the continent.

With an African team of developers, we could come up with projects that could solve common problems within the continent. These projects will go a long way to solving our common problems. This will increase the level of awareness of the movement's activities in Africa and get more people involved in volunteering in community projects from Africa leading to an increase in the number of not only the editors but developers from Africa.

Getting Africans folks to participate in global programs which will benefit them and the Foundation as they will build tools to solve problems and real world tasks (enriching their career path) as developers. Programs such as Outreach for women (no participant from Africa), GCI (no participant from Africa) and GSoC (only 1 participant from Africa in 2016). In addition, it will groom developers with real skills within the open movement and aid the learning of the use of a completely new platform.

In a nutshell, our prime or primary objective is getting volunteer developers in the movement from Africa (active ones to work on Wikimedia projects and African related projects geared towards the movement's goals).

Training Schedule
Pretendemos iniciar e terminar o treinamento no período de março a junho (4 meses). Isso incluirá treinamento para pelo menos 3 países, mas de preferência 4 países. Plano A: duas vezes por mês, mas a cada dois meses. Isso deixa um mês de planejamento e segurança da logística entre cada evento a ser realizado em diferentes locais. Plano B: um evento por país a cada mês. Países propostos abaixo:

Fase 1

 * Gana - Nos instalamos em Gana porque existe um Grupo de Usuários e OFWA para apoiar essa atividade no país. É um país forte quando se trata do envolvimento da Wikimedia no continente africano e provavelmente usaremos a influência que já temos com instituições parceiras para melhorar esta causa.
 * Costa do Marfim - Costa do Marfim é um país forte no movimento com interesse em ciência da computação ou programação. Estamos muito cientes do entusiasmo por programas relacionados a desenvolvimento no Google e outras empresas notáveis ​​no país. We wish to leverage their strengths and interests while roping in the usergroup to use the opportunity to strengthen their ties and announce their presence.
 * Nigéria - Uma comunidade muito vibrante na sub-região da África Ocidental e as atividades lá atrairão as multidões e a conscientização criativa sobre a Wikipédia e as oportunidades de desenvolvimento para voluntários.
 * Camarões -

Fase 2

 * Tanzânia - Acabamos de iniciar uma comunidade crescente no país e a maioria dos membros são estudantes de ciência da computação, além disso, já temos uma parceria que está disposto a nos ceder seu espaço, público e suporte para o projeto. O grupo está ligado ao governo e cria laços fortes para defender esta causa.
 * África do Sul - tem o único capítulo da WMF no continente e trabalhar com eles trará o tipo de pessoa que imaginamos como desenvolvedores para o continente. Atualmente, há alguns que conhecemos que estão realmente se saindo muito bem no MediaWiki e será ótimo incluí-los.
 * Botswana*-
 * Kenya* -

Day 1
Session 1: Introduction to Git, GitHub, Gerrit and installation of MediaWiki.


 * Welcome and Icebreaker - 9:00am - 9:20am
 * Introduction of Wikimedia Projects - 9:20am - 9:40am
 * Introduction to Git/GitHub and Gerrit - 9:40am - 10:40am
 *  -- 10:40am - 11:00am
 * Gerrit Tutorials for installation of MediaWiki on Local Env.: - 11:00am - 12:30pm

Gerrit Tutorials (Gerrit Tutorials to setup mediawiki: Setting up Git, SSH Keys, downloading MediaWiki, etc.)
 *  -- 12:30pm - 1:10pm
 * Energizer - 1:10pm - 1:15pm
 * Why volunteer as a developer 1? - 1:15pm - 1:40pm
 * Installation of MediaWiki extension onto MediaWiki and how to use these extensions. (the above two points are working hand-in-hand since in the Gerrit tutorials, installation of mediawiki is done) - 1:40pm - 2:40pm
 *  -- 2:40 pm - 3:00pm

Session 2: How to use IRC for communication with other Wikimedia developers


 * Introduction into IRC and IRC commands - 3:20pm - 4:30pm

Tutorials (Use of IRC - tutorials)

Day 2

 * Welcome - 09:00am - 09:10am

Session 3: Hands on how to build extensions on MediaWiki & hacking Example ext 


 * Tutorial/exercise to an example of developing a MediaWiki extension- 09:10am - 11:10am

Developing extensions (Developing an extension)
 *  -- 11:10am - 11:30am
 * Extension Writing Tutorial (Hacking the example extension)  - 11:30am - 12:30am
 *  -- 12:30pm - 1:10pm

Session 4: How to use Wikimedia Phabricator as a developer


 * How to use Phabricator (file bugs, solve issues, etc…) - 1:10pm - 2:30pm

Phabricator (Issue tracker)
 *   - 2:30pm - 3:00pm
 * Why volunteer as a developer 2? - 3:00pm - 3:40pm
 * Wrap up & Closure - 3:40pm - 4:00pm

The above bullets should cover at least 85% of what developers should know before working on programming related projects in the Wikimedia Foundation.

Below is a list of the most used languages in the Wikimedia Foundation:


 * PHP and Hack (PHP is the most recommended)
 * JavaScript, JSON and jQuery
 * SQL for the query language
 * MariaDB/MySQL as database management system

Target Groups/Mode of Recruitment
We intend to communicate through already existing developer groups and communities, such as:


 * Google Developer Groups
 * Linux User Groups
 * Mozilla Clubs
 * Universities/Higher Education Institutions
 * Freelance Developers
 * Members of the open source community

Continental Events

 * Solving real problems in Africa with Wikimedia Resources for the movement and of benefit to Africans or participants themselves - Regional conference (Year end 2017)
 * Outreach for Women - October 2017
 * Google Code-In program - December - February (2017/2018)
 * Hackathon before, after or around Wikimania in Capetown - 2018
 * Participating in solving some of the problems communicated on the wish list 2018
 * Google Summer of Code - 2018