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:
 * Localize Gadgets for Gujarati Wikipedia and Wikisource
 * Create New Gadgets and extensions
 * Bug solving for Gujarati Wikipedia and WikiSource and also other MediaWiki related Bug solving for all Indian languages
 * Translate into Gujarati Language, i.e
 * Wikidata

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 comfortable with JavaScript, Python, PHP. I have already ported HotCat and Popups(on the way) into Gujarati Wikipedia. I also want to contribute to MediaWiki for developing new extension, Gadgets, Bug solving etc--Harsh4101991 (talk) 20:40, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
 * More Promoters are welcome
 * Noopur28: I am on the non-technical side and can help with translations to Gujarati and managing the mailing list or organizing meetups and such.
 * Dhaval Shah:Being conversant with programming,I am keen to contribute to MediaWiki using my technical knowledge at best.At present I am an active contributor in Gujarati Wikipedia.

Other endorsements
 * Harsh has been actively interested in the creation of this group and the right ways to proceed since we announced Groups. His questions have helped defining the process itself. He is involved in the MediaWiki community and it is great to see him putting time and energies in creating this group.--Qgil (talk) 21:59, 13 December 2012 (UTC)