Developer Days - Wikimania 2011 in Haifa
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From Wikimania 2011 • Haifa, Israel
Floor sketch
Beit Hecht, the Hackathon venue
The developers' meeting, or
Hackathon
, is an opportunity for Wikimedia's software developers to come together, test software in diverse languages and on diverse devices, squash bugs and write awesome new features.
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Date
Tuesday, August 2nd, and on Wednesday, August 3rd
Venue
in the
Hecht House
(Part of the Haifa Auditorium - see
here
Contact
Organizer:
Amir E. Aharoni
Shortlink
Hashtag
#wmdevday11
Twitterwall
Livestream
Liveblogging / Etherpad notes
IRC
#wikimania
This session was transcribed on Etherpad:
wmdevday11
Directions and information
Getting to the Venue
In Airport - getting to Haifa
In Haifa - getting to the Venue
Schedule
This is a draft schedule - lightning talks TBA
Tuesday, August 2
Main room – Gilboa
Special interest meetings
09:00 – 10:00
Opening
10:00 – 11:00
How to become a MediaWiki hacker workshop
Roan Kattouw
(Lounge)
11:00 – 12:00
How to become a MediaWiki hacker workshop
Roan Kattouw
(Lounge)
12:00 – 13:00
Lunch
13:00 – 14:00
14:00 – 15:00
Lightning talk:
proteopedia.org -
Prof Joel Sussman and Dr. Jaime Prilusky, Weizmann Institute of Science
15:00 – 16:00
Lightning talks:
How not to get dizzy in right-to-left environments -
Amir E. Aharoni
$wgBetterDirectionality - How to mix RTL and LTR nicely in one page -
SPQRobin
If you're a developer, read and edit the new page
mw:Directionality support
New BiDi and RTL features in HTML5 -
Aharon Lanin, Google Israel
(after the related lightning talks at the Lounge)
16:00 – 17:00
17:00 – 18:00
Wednesday, August 3
Main room – Gilboa
Special interest meetings
09:00 – 10:00
Opening
10:00 – 11:00
Accessibility for the blind -
Adi Kushnir
(Lounge)
11:00 – 12:00
Accessibility for the blind -
Adi Kushnir
(Lounge)
12:00 – 13:00
Lunch
13:00 – 14:00
14:00 – 15:00
HowTo: Mediawiki code review (
notes
- Brion Vibber, Tim Starling (Lounge)
15:00 – 16:00
HowTo: Mediawiki code review (continued)
- Brion Vibber, Tim Starling (Lounge)
16:00 – 17:00
coffee break 16:00-16:30
coffee break 16:00-16:30, lightning talks in lounge 16:30-17:00
17:00 – 18:00
i18n issues discussion (Lounge)
More or less final
How to become a MediaWiki hacker workshop
- Tuesday 10:00
Code review training & coding standards
- Wednesday 14:00-16:00
i18n discussion group - Wednesday 15:00
Being discussed
Attendees
Brion Vibber
Roan Kattouw
Niklas Laxström
Siebrand Mazeland
Andrew Garrett
(late, arriving into Tel Aviv at 07:20am)
Seb35
Multichill
(probably)
David Richfield
Aude
Sumana Harihareswara
Kalan
RajeshPandey
Mountain
SusikMkr
(part)
Tim Starling
Prolineserver
Ainali
(when not in the chapter meeting)
El Ágora
(Hopefully too!)
Mglaser
HPN
Ganesh Rao
on RJ-340
Danny B.
SPQRobin
Dror Snir
Shawn Simister
Kelson
Rob Halsell
A Bronner
(2nd day only)
Erik Moeller
Guillaume Paumier
Timo Tijhof
Brandon Harris
Jutta von Dincklage
(2nd day, when not in chapter meeting)
Oren Bochman
Alolita Sharma
Léa Massiot
Patrick Reilly
Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton
Saper
Waldir
Dovi
11:12, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
Abigor
04:13, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
Henna
04:22, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
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Volunteers
Vassily Kislyak
Amir E. Aharoni
Liron Dorfman
Topics
Here are the things we want to focus on:
Right-to-left language support, such as
bug 6100
Now
bugzilla:28980
and
bugzilla:28970
Code review, coding standards, training new code reviewers
Porting AutoWikiBrowser so it can work on Firefox, not just IE
Testing MediaWiki on lots of mobile devices & fixing those bugs
Testing offline readers like Kiwix on various devices, fixing those bugs
WebFonts
MobileFrontend — testing and performance improvements
Accessibility?
Remaining IPv6 bugs in MediaWiki?
what else? add your idea here!
An Overview of the Database.
Parser NG.
Specs
Rules their Scope
Parser hooks
The extention mechanism
Future of the Editor
Hacking/Extending the Search Engine
Semantic Extention
How one can make an accelerated entry editor scripts for Wiktionary
[1]
Error log sprint?
Protocol-relative URLs and HTTPS sprint
Labs sprint
Pywikipedia stuff
Implement youtube_jacker.py
Continue with data ingestion bot
Wiki Loves Monuments
tooling
Maps
New Editor Engagement features
Localizing WikiLove
Global Profile
Sharing Editor Experiences (Mood Bar)
Reverse OCR
[2]
Lightning talks proposals
There are many slots for 5-minute lightning talks every hour. If you have a proposal for a 5-minute lightning talk, write it here:
preferred date and time - Lightning Talk Title -
Presenter
demo of WikiPraise prototype: see who wrote what on wikipedia instantly --
Daniel Kinzler (WMDE)
12:14, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
presentation of WikiTalk extension: using statusnet as a messaging engine for mediawiki --
Daniel Kinzler (WMDE)
12:14, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
Contact
Organizer:
Amir E. Aharoni
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