MediaWiki/Homepage redesign

MediaWiki Homepage Redesign

 * Public URL: Microtask
 * Announcement: Link to announcement of my proposal at the wikitech-l mailing list

Name and contact information
Name: Brena Monteiro Email: monteirobrena@undefinedgmail.com IRC or IM networks/handle(s): monteirobrena Location: Belo Horizonte, Brazil Time zone: UTC−3 Typical working hours: 9 AM - 5 PM

Synopsis
The mediawiki.org Main page needs a redesign to reflect better our project an the activities done by our community. There have been some proposals to improve it, but not much progress has been done. This project requires to analyze the current problems, propose a solution and implement it, being all these steps done with the participation of the community.

Information courtesy: Quim Gil

The MediaWiki Homepage Redesign project aims to redesign the homepage MediaWiki to express for community the full potential of MediaWiki. The homepage is the first contact that community has with the tool, is in this moment that we need awakening the interest to know and use the it.

Deliverables
Dec. 10th - Dec. 31th (3 weeks)
 * Identify the main problems at current homepage.
 * Propose and discuss the solutions for this problems.
 * Investigate good lessons and inspirations in another references sites.
 * Discuss and define which existing ideias will be implemented.
 * Document what will be implemented.

Jan. 1st - Jan. 29th (4 weeks)
 * Make prototype with the new ideias.
 * Discuss and validate final prototype.
 * Develop the prototype.

Jan. 30th - Feb. 25th (4 weeks)
 * Discuss and validate the main page.
 * Define improvements and final adjustments.
 * Document the improvements and justifications.
 * Develop improvements to finalize main page.

Feb. 26th - Mar. 10th (2 weeks)
 * Validate and deploy the new main page.
 * Document the final version of main page.

About you
My main professional motivation is to encourage the inclusion of women in Information Technology. I believe that disclosing and attending the OPW I can be an example for the women of my country.

I am assiduous user of Wikipedia and also use other Wikimedia Foundation projects like Wikivoyage. I'm impressed with the amount of people who work and who are aided by tools and the contents published.

Participate in the OPW is one of the way to repay benefits received and be part of this captivating community.

Participation
I plan to communicate my progress through the project page, the IRC channel, the mailing list and the Talks of MediaWiki. I have habit of using GitHub to provide open source codes that I contribute. I saw that Wikimedia has several repositories on GitHub so I think the community is already accustomed to using it, too. I believe that the best way to get help is through the mailing list and IRC channel because everybody can collaborate and I could get an answer more quickly.

Past open source experience
In addition to the open sources projects that I keep on GitHub I made some contributions to projects that are stored there. I also fixed in Template:MediaWiki News, applying new formatting. My collaboration in MediaWiki can be seen here:

Template MediaWiki News History |Template MediaWiki News Talk

Any other info
Here is the beginning of my work for the project MediaWiki Homepage Redesign. I'm identifying what can be improved and seeking innovative ideas to improve the homepage of MediaWiki.