Invitation to events bot template and Gadget makers wanted   I thought you might want to know about some upcoming events where you can learn more about MediaWiki customization and development extending functionality with JavaScript the future of ResourceLoader and Gadgets the new Lua templating system how to best use the web API for bots and various upcoming features and changes  Wed love to have power users bot maintainers and writers and template makers at these events so we can all learn from each other and chat about what needs doing  Check out the Chennai event in March the Berlin hackathon in June the developers days preceding Wikimania in July in Washington DC or any other of our events  Best wishes  Sumana Harihareswara Wikimedia Foundations Volunteer Development Coordinator  Please reply on my talk page here or at mediawikiorg