Africa Wikimedia Technical Community/ha

 .  Haɓaka masu ba da gudummawar fasaha don gobe

 'AWMT Community' wanda aka fi sani da Africa Wikimedia Developers Project (AWMD)' an fara shi ne da farko a matsayin wani aiki da ke neman fara al'umma masu haɓakawa a Nahiyar Afirka da kuma ƙarfafa ƙarin masu haɓaka don sa kai ga Wikimedia. Foundation. Over the years, the project has broadened its scope and made opportunities for other technical contributions to be a part of the project hence the change of name from Africa Wikimedia Developers Project (AWMD) to Africa Wikimedia Technical Community (AWMT) ' manufar mu ita ce ƙirƙirar yanayin yanayi mai ba da dama ga masu haɓakawa waɗanda suke shirye su koya da gina sabbin ƙwarewa a cikin sararin samaniya ta hanyar ba da gudummawa a matsayin gudummawar fasaha don Gidauniyar Wikimedia.



Shin kuna son shiga?
Akwai hanyoyi da yawa da zaku iya shiga don zama Mai haɓaka Wikimedia na Afirka. Shin kun fito daga nahiyar Afirka, kuna son fasaha da sha'awar ilimin buɗe ido? Idan eh, shiga cikin al'umma ta hanyar [https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedia-developers african-wikimedia-developerslists.wikimedia.org'. Da fatan za a bi matakan da ke ƙasa don sanin kanku da ƙwarewar da ake buƙata a cikin al'ummarmu.

Mataki 1: Koyi yadda ake zama MediaWiki Hacker
 Yi haƙuri, ɗauki lokacin ku kuma karanta waɗannan takaddun bayanai masu fa'ida sosai:



Mataki 2: Wikimedia's Code Review (CR) da dandamalin ci gaba
 shine sunan software na Code Review(CR) a cikin Wikimedia kuma shine zuciyar tsarin haɓaka software. Yana da kusan ba zai yuwu a yi haɓaka software a cikin Wikimedia (a daidaitacciyar hanya) ba tare da amfani da Gerrit ba. Ƙirƙiri asusu akan Gerrit Yanar Gizo kuma sami. Hakanan kuna iya kallon Gerrit Tutorials kan yadda ake saita Gerrit akan PC ɗinku.

Mataki na 3: Sanin kanku da Phabricator
 Wikimedia yana amfani da buɗaɗɗen dandali na haɓaka tushe mai suna: Phabricator, ana amfani dashi galibi don sarrafa ayyuka, rahoton bugu na software da neman fasali. Ba shi da wahalar amfani da shi kuma kuna iya shiga Wikimedia's Phabricator ta amfani da asusun ku na MediaWiki.

Phabricator yana da ayyuka da yawa amma a matsayin mai haɓakawa, ayyukan da zaku yi amfani da su galibi suna mai da hankali akai; ƙirƙirar ayyuka, warware ayyuka, loda fayiloli, buƙatar fasali da sauransu. Don haka, ba ma tsammanin za ku koyi duk ayyukan Phabricator (sai dai kuna so). We will focus on what we need for a start and keep learning as time goes.

 Step 4: Bonding with the Wikimedia developer community
 There are of course many different ways to bond with the developer community in the Wikimedia Movement, but the fastest and most comfortable way for most developers is on Internet Relay Chat IRC. Wikimedia has so many IRC channels and the particular channel for developers is:. This is a starting point and on this channel, you can introduce yourself and make your interest known to the community and wait for a while, be rest assured that someone in the channel will guide you or react to your message. You can also ask technical questions on the channel and someone might answer you or point you to resources that will enable you find the answer(s) to your question(s).

 Step 5: Configure MediaWiki locally and get started!
 It's a great thing you are at this step and we recommend you do step 2 before doing this as they are highly interlinked to each other. MediaWiki can be installed following these docs and after this, it will be available locally and you can also see how to clone the MediaWiki Core in the Gerrit Tutorials in Step 2. After mastering all the first 4 steps, developing on MediaWiki will be relatively easy so we recommend that you take your time and master the first 4 steps before diving to this last step.

Happy hacking on MediaWiki!!!

Further resources
For more information about getting into MediaWiki development and even more on other Wikimedia related projects, you can checkout the link below:



Contact us
You can reach us through african-wikimedia-developerslists.wikimedia.org or for quick reach, you can join us on IRC here:, you will always see someone around :)

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