Wikipedia:WikiClub, Lagos State University/events/Welcome to MediaWiki

Welcome to MediaWiki was a MediaWiki tutorial event hosted at the Lagos State University, Epe Library on June 8, 2019. It was the first of two series of Hackathon centred on MediaWiki and funded by the Wikimedia Foundation.

The Hackathon begun at 10:00 am and continued till 3 pm.

Started with an introduction to what open source is all about, explain the lack of Developers from Africa contributing to MediaWiki and what we hope to solve by the end of the day. Continued with version control and the various types available. The focus was on Gerrit although Github was also explained. The attendees were then taken through the process of creating an account on Wiktech and MediaWiki and why they needed to do so. There was an issue encountered when creating accounts on Wikitech as the lead was unaware that account creation was throttled. Thankfully this was fixed quickly.

There was also a Skype call With Alangi Derick who was the overall technical lead of AWMD as at then. He explained developing with MediaWiki and urged attendees to volunteer for a worthy cause like Wikimedia.

Persons also new to the development environment were guided through the installation of the required applications (Notepad, Git, & others) by Anyi Jonathan & Mahveotm

The list of individuals who attended is here