2024:Program/Wikifunctions tutorial

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Session title: Wikifunctions tutorial

Session type: Workshop

Track: Contributor/Community Engagement

Language: en

This hands-on, interactive, in-person tutorial will provide an introduction to Wikifunctions. It will be co-organised with Nicolas Vigneron, user of Wikifunctions. We will first give a gentle, high-level overview of Wikifunctions. We will then lead the audience members in a set of introductory activities, each of which can be done through the wikifunctions.org site. These activities will include finding and calling existing functions; creating new functions, tests, and implementations; and editing existing functions, tests, and implementations.

Description

Wikimania 2024 provides an outstanding and timely opportunity to raise awareness of Wikifunctions and accelerate the growth of its community. This hands-on, interactive, in-person tutorial will provide an ideal forum in which to make this happen. The workshop will be run conjunctly by the Wikifunctions team and Nicolas Vigneron, user of Wikifunctions.

We will first give a gentle, high-level overview of Wikifunctions, briefly describing its supported user-journeys and some background knowledge that's helpful in working with it. Following that, we will lead the audience members in a set of introductory activities, each of which can be done through the wikifunctions.org site. These activities will include finding and calling existing functions; creating new functions, tests, and implementations; and editing existing functions, tests, and implementations. If time permits, we will also touch on the topic of debugging functions under development.

As a key objective for Wikifunctions is accessibility to non-experts, the materials and activities will assume no prior knowledge of Wikifunctions or of programming. We aim for attendees to leave the tutorial feeling "at home" in the Wikifunctions UI, with a sense of fun and excitement around exploring and contributing to Wikifunctions.

Session recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JIhTex8LLs&t=14380

How does your session relate to the event theme, Collaboration of the Open?

Wikifunctions is an open, collaborative project. With this workshop, we want to teach and explore new paths to the collaborative creation and open sharing of functionality which has not been available before. It will be also a way to positively engage the Wikimedia community to join the Wikifunctions community.

What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?

Everyone can participate in this session

Etherpad link

https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WM2024_Day2_Belgrade-_Room_8

Speakers

• Luca Martinelli [Sannita]

Wikimedian user since 2006, admin on Italian Wikipedia, Wikidata and Neapolitan Wikipedia, I work for Wikimedia Foundation since 2021. Among other things I do, I currently work as Community Relations Specialist for Wikifunctions, operating as a liaison between the community and the developer team.

• Nicolas VIGNERON

Wikimedian for 20+ years, mainly on Wikisource and Wikidata nowadays. I'm interrested in books, lexemes and GLAMs.

• James D. Forrester

James is a Principal Software Engineer working for the Wikimedia Foundation as tech lead for the Abstract Wikipedia team. A Wikimedia volunteer since 2002, James has been staff at the Foundation since 2012.