My Introduction

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I am Teke Noella. A Cameroonian girl who fell in love with coding as a passion and I will narrate to you my done and doings into my journey with OpenSource via Outreachy program with Wikimedia Foundation. :)

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Already in the middle of the journey.

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Its surprising how time flies, so sad half of the journey has pass already.😞😞 I can still remember how at the beginning of this internship I could not even understand what putting an extension in a PHP namespace means. Now I realize how obvious the statement implies its meaning😃. Being at the middle of my internship, to be sincere I feel like having to work with my mentors, and some other developers on IRC that usually help me is an awesome experience. I just feel like " am not gonna leave open source, never-never ". Its really exiting. My project as well has gone half way and currently finishing the 3rd task out of 6. This task has given me some serious challenges in the sense of: Limited time. Some confusion on what exactly I am suppose to do. Limited resources as I experienced a lot of electricity shortdown, that could last for up to 12 hrs. In the task in question I have to change all the $target  variables passed as arrays to objects. It sounds simple when...
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Community bonding

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Now, Outreachy has started and it's time to get to work.  Trying to know my mentors well and setting up for development. Even though I have some personal problems and instability in now in my life I am trying to push up with the work😥😥. I am anxious for the coding period to come and for me to start work fully😛. Hopefully by then, I will be more stable. I created a phabricator task requesting for a new project " MassMessage-testing"   on cloud VPS for testing that was granted and resolved by Brian Davis. The project will be used by my mentors and I for testing of changes during the Outreachy period. All I need is to set up MediaWiki on it now😌😌.
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Coding has begun :))

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Hmmm!! long waited for this time, where i will get my hands dirty 😎😎 Coding has finally started and the first thing is to setup a MediaWiki instance on Cloud VPS, which I shall use with my mentors to test changes before deployment. Believe me, it was a sweet experience but difficult. Just at the beginning, I had multiple challenges😓😓 but luckily, I have very responding mentors (@Legoktm, @D3r1ck) always available for help. This is a narration of what happened. I had never worked with cloud services before so I was relying greatly on documentations and following of steps. I created a new instance massmessage-test-wiki on the massmessage project on WikiMedia Cloud VPS. That was pretty simple. The next thing was to connect to the instance and setup MediaWiki on it. I had struggle for hours without succeeding, made research with no good output. In fact, I could not even connect to the instance😢😢. After some long struggle I thought the problem might be my operating system as I h...
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