You may or may not already know that I am participating in the December 2023 Outreachy internship with Wikimedia. We've reached the half way mark and so far it has been quite an experience; so much learning. Actually, most of what i've implemented in...
Wikimedia conducts an annual wish list survey where Wikimedia contributors make technological proposals for tools and platform improvements. The Lusophone Technological wish list proposals by the Wiki Movement Brazil (WMB) is an example of such propo...
I am currently working on a tool that that automates finding external links on Wikipedia that may not serve as valid references to an article because the link could be broken. So the tool basically makes requests to all the links on a Wikipedia page ...
Hello, my name is Alwoch Sophia, a 28 year old software engineer currently interning with Outreachy under the Wikimedia Foundation. I love talking long walks, listening to music, picking up a new skill and learning new things. I generally thrive in a...
Python offers two ways to assign variables; single and multiple variable assignment. The choice of which variable assignment technique you use sometimes has a tremendous effect on your code's accuracy. This article will explain the two variable assig...
When writing APIs, you'll most likely have to return responses to the client. For example, when writing a sign-up API, you may be required to return the created user object to the client. An important step to take in development is ensuring that only...
As a developer, it is essential to stay on top of the changes in your application during development and production. Logging enables you to track events, features, errors and when they occur. This tutorial will take you through setting up basic loggi...
