Groups/Proposals/Ahmedabad

MediaWiki Group Ahmedabad
MediaWiki Group Ahmedabad aims to become an avenue of technical support for community activities in India, especially Gujarat. We are a bunch of enthusiastic Wikipedians who have been contributing to Gujarati Wikipedia for sometime. Most of us are also programmers with adequate knowledge of PHP, JavaScript, Python, HTML, CSS.

This group aims to conduct hackathons, meetups and develop in-house technical expertise so that we can make Gujarati Wikipedia more functional and easier for editors to write on. With the help of some guidance from WMF staff and other community members we have already implemented hotcat on GU WP. The group can also prepare User script, Gadget, Extension, guidelines, tutorials and useful material that can be passed on for other Indian language Wikipedia communities to refer.

We believe that there is a solid need to work on MediaWiki, especially in the Indian context because the readership numbers are going up drastically but the number of editors are still very low. This might be because of the difficulties in typing, unavailability of tools and more.

Areas of collaboration:

Precedents

 * Meetups in Ahmedabad
 * Workshop in Ahmedabad
 * Ahmedabad Mailing List

Who is interested
As promoters As members
 * Harsh Kothari, I am currently studying in Engineering. I am very much expert in javaScript, Python, PHP. I have already ported HotCat and Popups(on the way) into Gujarati WIkipedia. I also want to contribute in mediawiki for developing new extension, Gadgets, BugSolving etc--Harsh4101991 (talk) 20:40, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
 * More Promoters are welcome