Bangalore DevCamp November 2012/Topics

Mobile

 * Build mobile volunteer community
 * Build a dedicated Commons upload app
 * Build an integrated Commons triage app
 * Iterate on Wikipedia FireFox OS app
 * Iterate on Vumi SMS/USSD Wikipedia app
 * Create a SpecialPage (?) for mobile that shows a user's recent article contributions and photo contributions
 * Redesign home page for mobile app (to test ideas for mobile site) - http://jonrobson.me.uk/wikipedia/explorer/index.html

Interested in improving language support in Wiki projects?

 * Be part of language support team

Talk to the language engineering team, they are looking for community members who can support the engineering activities for their language. You can help us in testing and reporting bug related to your language, become contact person for language related questions from developer community, and to help non-technical community with technical solutions.


 * Provide translation for interfaces
 * Become a language ambassador
 * Web resources for your language

Love typography?
Are you a font designer or passionate about typography? Wikimedia language engineering team is actively working on webfonts technology to improve readability and accessibility of non-latin scripts. You can contribute in developing fonts, improving existing fonts, testing or fixing bugs on rendering/readability. Or even with your awesome ideas for improving the wikimedia content reading experience.


 * Help us in improving jQuery WebFonts - a webfonts library not dependent on MediaWiki.

Do you know how to type in your language?
...and what to help others also in typing in their mother tongue? Wikimedia language engineering team develops and maintains input methods in many languages, especially Indic languages. Check out the typing tools, help us in improving and expanding our input method coverage to more languages. Learn about the typing tools and help other community members to start using it.


 * Help us in improving jQuery IME - an input method library not dependent on MediaWiki.

Do you speak javascript?

 * ULS integration into selected Wikimedia projects

Do you hate bugs?
Help is in providing bug free language support for all users of Wikimedia projects. Depending on your skills and interest there are a large number of open bugs in our bugzilla with varying degree of complexity.


 * i18n Bug triage(add link)

Interested in Translation?
Wikimedia projects are available for 285 languages, thanks to the large community of translators who actively translate the MediaWiki interface to their mother tongue. Without much technical knowledge you can join the community. Get and account at our localization platform - translatewiki.net and just start!