Building Wikipedia Gadgets Made Easy: A MediaWiki Workshop
A 2 hour wikipedia userscripts / gadgets workshop at GNUnify 2013, held at SICSR, Pune on 17th February 2013.
Goal[edit]
The Wikipedia community needs small bits of web tech that make the site better for lots of users. We'll take people who know wiki stuff and also a little programming stuff, and have them be able to write code for Wikipedia.
Pre-requisites[edit]
Please bring your laptops! This is a hands on session, and you'll be creating things!
- Basic grasp of Javascript, CSS
- An account on Wikipedia
- A modern browser (preferably Chrome, but Firefox with Firebug will also do)
What will you have learnt at the end of it?[edit]
- Understanding how user scripts work
- Be able to use the MediaWiki API appropriately
- Improve your own wiki experience / experience for your language wikipedia by writing scripts
Lesson Plan[edit]
- Environment (JS, Dev Toolbar, Common.js, importScript)
- Data (API, API Sandbox, actions)
- Accessing Data from the Environment (AJAX concepts, mw.API, mw.loader.using)