Technical communications/What you can do

Below are self-contained tasks that anyone is welcome to take on. If you'd like more information about anything on this page, Guillaume will be happy to help.

Write technical articles on the Wikimedia blog
You can write blog posts about Wikimedia technology that will be published on the official Wikimedia blog. Our community will benefit from more knowledge, information sharing and discussion of tech subjects.

Possible topics include:
 * historical perspective / backstory / evolution of a specific feature
 * technical overview of how a specific feature works
 * sociological posts about our technical community (possibly using Community metrics)
 * discovery report (a candid article gathering the surprises / impressions of newcomers as they discover our community / tools / software / code etc.)
 * explain part of our technology (software, hardware, etc.) in Plain English so people without deep technical knowledge can understand it.

Multilingual posts are welcome but we'll generally ask that there be an English version as well. Both "popular science" and complex technical posts are welcome.

You can already start a draft, and let Guillaume know when you'd like it reviewed and published. Posts will be advertised through our official social media channels once published.

Resources:
 * Wikimedia tech blog
 * Blog guidelines — Mostly for reference. You don't have to read everything but it's a good place to find answers if you have questions

Help write the weekly technical newsletter
Tech news is a technical newsletter published weekly, aimed to inform Wikipedians and their colleagues from other Wikimedia projects about technical changes that are likely to affect them.

The newsletter is put together collaboratively by people who add relevant and newsworthy items to the upcoming issue of the newsletter. You can participate by adding items to the next issue.

Translate technical documentation
The pages listed below would benefit from translations into more languages. If you can write in a language that isn't yet available, :
 * Help:VisualEditor/User guide

Resources:
 * VisualEditor localization portal
 * Help:Screenshots

One-off tasks
While the previously listed tasks happen are recurring, those below only need to happen once.


 * Add support for  tags in the Lua module for Tech news. (Bonus: do the same for m:Module:Assemble multilingual message)