Building Wikipedia Gadgets Made Easy: A MediaWiki Workshop

A 2 hour wikipedia userscripts / gadgets workshop at GNUnify 2013, held at SICSR, Pune on 17th February 2013.

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Please bring your laptops! This is a hands on session, and you'll be creating things!


 * Basic grasp of Javascript, CSS
 * An account on Wikipedia
 * A modern browser (preferably Chrome, but Firefox with Firebug will also do)

What will you have learnt at the end of it?

 * Understanding how user scripts work
 * Be able to use the MediaWiki API appropriately
 * Improve your own wiki experience / experience for your language wikipedia by writing scripts

Lesson Plan

 * Environment (JS, Dev Toolbar, Common.js, importScript)
 * Data (API, API Sandbox, actions)
 * Accessing Data from the Environment (AJAX concepts, mw.API, mw.loader.using)

Facilitators
Yuvi Panda, Sucheta Ghoshal, Harsh Kothari