[WMF-outreach-staff] Tutorial session on templates

[Asheesh Laroia]

People in the survey seem quite interested in learning more about 
templates.

I think there are a lot of people who are generally quite confused about 
templates within MediaWiki.

Given that, I'd love to see a tutorial on templates.

We could run it on a labs wiki, so people can edit the templates 
willy-nilly. It might be fun to do it on a clone of enwiki or commons so 
that people can be taught exactly how a handful of very real templates 
really work.

We'll need:

* A labs wiki for this (I can request that)

* Someone to create a curriculum for it (I can try to do this, but I'd 
prefer to work with someone within the Wikimedia community for this; I can 
look through the existing attendees and see if any of them would 
volunteer)

* Someone to teach it (preferably the same person as above)

Any tips for who that could be? I rely on y'all's recommendations, or else 
I'll just pick someone but really I'd love recommendations for who's a 
good, respectful teacher who slows down as needed. Curriculum planning I 
can work with them on, so that's not the skill most needed.

Perhaps someone involved in Wikidata, if they're a good teacher. Brandon 
Harris is a possibly good person, though I'd have to see if he's 
available.

We'd also want a group of TAs (teaching assistants) that can roam around 
and answer questions. It's easier to get good TAs than a good main 
instructor, but it does require training them, too.

Is there a pool of work related to templates that we can ask our 
newly-trained template experts to work on? It'd be great if, through their 
learning, there were something meaningful they could do for the projects. 
That could be on enwiki stuff, or Wikidata stuff, or GLAM stuff, or OSM 
stuff, or anything really.

-- Asheesh.