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Hackers at Wikimania Hackathon 2012
Wikimania Hackathon 2015
will take place on Wednesday, 15 July 2015 and Thursday, 16 July 2015, and Friday, 17 July beginning as a pre-conference two days before the main Wikimania program starts with the final day overlapping with the main Wikimania schedule.
Developers, designers and anyone interested in collaborating on a technical hacking project are welcome
at the Hackathon.
First Hackathon? Read this!
Email sent to all registered hackathon participants as of July 1
All participants of Hackathon are expected to respect and abide by the
Wikimania Friendly Space Policy
. Individuals not cooperating with this policy may be asked to leave the event.
Registration
Please make sure to
for the first two days of the hackathon if you are planning to attend. On the third day, the hackathon and Wikimania overlap, but are in the same location so if you register for the main conference you will still be able to participate in the final day of the hackathon as well. During the entire Wikimania event there will be a hacking room available for hackers to escape the crowds and continue to hack.
What's a hackathon?
Hackathon
("Hacking days")—sometimes called DevCamp—have been held previously at Wikimania 2005 (Frankfurt), 2006 (Boston), 2007 (Taipei), 2009 (Buenos Aires), 2011 (Haifa), 2012 (Washington DC), 2013 (Hong Kong), 2014 (London) and various other
Hackathons, DevCamps, and developer meetings
People spend their time hacking on anything related to MediaWiki or one of the Wikimedia projects (and sometimes other things, too). The Hackathon events are completely open; we welcome both seasoned and new developers, as well as people working on MediaWiki, tools, pywikibot, gadgets, extensions, templates, etc. Interested technologists and hackers of all backgrounds are welcome at the Wikimania Hackathon. Prior experience with the MediaWiki software is not required. Translators with a linguistic background who can help improve language support for Wikimedia technology projects are also needed.
Buddies
Find a buddy for the hackathon.
Ideally every new contributor at the hackathon will have a buddy and everybody else who is willing to buddy up. We encourage newbies and veterans with similar interests to pair up. Add your name and a bit about yourself and what you are working on to the buddy page. Reach out to other users who you might make a good match with. This is an effort to support newbies and encourage new collaboration.
Program and tasks
Hacking projects confirmed
There are many proposals of demoable projects under development at the
Wikimedia Hackathon 2015
project in Phabricator. Below you have a non-exhaustive list of activities confirmed (please link to the related Phabricator task):
Projects welcoming newcomers
"Newcomers" refers to developers new to our community as well as editors and other Wikimania attendees.
Sprint: Making the Wiki Ed dashboard work for outreach projects
(Education Programs)
Sprint: VisualEditor's "translathon", 2nd edition
Pageview API: Dockerize Hadoop Cluster, Druid, and Samza + Load Test
A new panoramic viewer for commons
Training:
Wiki Front-End in 40 LOC, and other Parsoid tricks
Projects for experienced contributors
Sprint: Wikimedia Site Requests triage/cleanup/process
Markdown <-> wikitext using Parsoid
Prototype HTML Diffs for Parsoid (and Visual Editor)
Support Translate extension in Parsoid
Pageview API: Dockerize Hadoop Cluster, Druid, and Samza + Load Test
Templates with Scribunto
Efforts to improve the copy and paste detection bot
Confirmed tasks welcome.
Schedule
Hacking break out space in London at Wikimania Hackathon 2014
This schedule is made by the hackathon participants.
See
this Phabricator Workboard
for more information on the Hackathon's program and tasks. Please subscribe to any tasks on the workboard to express your interest in the topic and join in on or follow the discussion. If you would like to propose or run a session please create a task and add project Wikimania-Hackathon-2015.
Before scheduling a session, please consider these points:
The most important activity of the hackathon is hacking in the main room, and filling the schedule is not a goal per se.
We offer breakout rooms for
sprint
training
, and
meeting
sessions. Typical conference presentations are out of scope here.
All sessions must link to a related task in Phabricator associated to the
Wikimania-Hackathon-2015 project
create a task
help
).
The task must be assigned to the person responsible.
The title must start with "Sprint:", "Training", or "Meeting" to identify the type of session.
You can take any empty slot, or negotiate an exchange directly with the owner of a session scheduled in a slot that interests you.
Wednesday, 15 July
Hackathon Day 1
Edit
Time
Hackathon Workplace 1 - Don Américo
Hackathon Workplace 2 - Don Genaro
Hackathon Workplace 3 - Don Julián
Hacking Hall 1 - Don Diego 4
WMF - Don Diego 3
Education - Doña Adelita
60 classroom & video recording equipment.
Newcomer-friendly sessions preferred.
60 classroom
This room is still mostly empty! Add your sessions!
(60 classroom)
300 with rounds of 10
By invitation
By invitation, registration closed
07:00
On-site registration
Registration 7:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Second floor foyer, Hilton Hotel
09:00
Opening plenary session (Hackathon) in Don Diego
WMF Learning Day
etherpad
Education Pre Conference
10:00
Introduction to Wikimedia Tech
for newcomers and their buddies
Hacking!
11:00
Introduction to Phabricator
(Wikimedia's task and bug tracking tool) for newcomers
Tutorial:
Drinking and Filtering the Recent Changes Stream
12:00
Lunch Don Diego 1 (
Hackathon
attendees only)
13:00
Training:
MediaWiki-Vagrant install party
Sprint:
Making the Wiki Ed dashboard work for outreach projects
OTRS Meetup
Hacking!
14:00
Training:
Wiki Front-End in 40 LOC, and other Parsoid tricks
slides
Meeting:
Wikidata - Find a project, ask your question
OTRS Meetup Continued
15:00
Presentation/Discussion:
How Mapillary can be used with wiki
Workshop:
Doing Research on Wikimedia things as a volunteer - tools and communities
16:00
Hacking
Tools that use Revision Scoring
Workshop:
CI: automated tests on patch upload and merge
17:00
Meeting:
MediaWiki RFC: Streamlining Composer usage
IdeaLab Mixer
18:00
End of Hackathon program. Dinner provided for Hackathon Participants @ 18:00 in Don Diego 1. Don Diego 4 remains open for quiet hacking overnight.
20:30 to 01:00
Hackathon Social Event: Drinks and food, bring your badge and get a discount. Location:
Cancino Alameda
, Calle Doctor Mora 9 Cuauhtemoc, Centro. Two minutes walking from Hilton.
Map here
Thursday, 16 July
Hackathon Day 2
Edit
Time
Hackathon Workplace 1 - Don Américo
Hackathon Workplace 2 - Don Genaro
Hackathon Workplace 3 - Don Julián
Hacking Hall 1 - Don Diego 4
Education - Doña Adelita
WMCON Follow-Up Day
Press - Don Diego 3
60 classroom & video equipment.
Newcomer-friendly sessions preferred.
60 classroom
60 classroom
300 with rounds of 10
By invitation, registration closed
room C/D;
in
Fiesta Inn Hotel
(close by)
80 room (by invitation)
08:00
On-site registration
second floor foyer, Hilton Hotel
8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. , 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
09:00
Hacking!
Education Pre Conference
Press Conference
10:00
Learn about Puppet
Learning SQL with Quarry
Spanish track
Introducción a las tecnologías del movimiento Wikimedia. Un espacio para los novatos y sus compañeros de hackeo.
Introduction to Wikimedia Tech for newcomers and their buddies
.)
Wikimedia Conference Follow-Up Day
(no registration needed, just come along)
11:00
Adding (interactive) graphs and maps to articles
How to get Grant Funding for your Hacking Project
12:00
Hackathon Group Photo @ 12 in Don Diego 4!
Lunch (
Hackathon
attendees only)
13:00
Workshop:
Learn about and evaluate
our
web API client libraries
Hacking!
14:00
Discussion:
Researchers in our midst: Subject recruitment in Wikimedia communities
WMF Engineering Management Q&A
Ally Skills Workshop
15:00
Workshop:
Getting started (and making better!) tools and bots on Tool Labs
Best Practices for Hackathon Showcase Presenters
Code of conduct/Phabricator etiquette/Friendly Spaces/etc breach consequences and escalation paths
16:00
Sprint:
VisualEditor's "translathon"
, 2nd edition
Citathon 2015
Building a Visual Video Editor for the Web
17:00
Clean up Ruby code with RuboCop!
18:00
End of program.
Welcome Reception in Salon Don Diego
Hacking Hall 2 - Doña Adelita
opens at 8pm for 24h hacking for the remainder of Wikimania
20:30 to 01:00
Hackathon Social Event: Drinks and food, bring your badge and get a discount. Location:
Cancino Alameda
, Calle Doctor Mora 9 Cuauhtemoc, Centro. Two minutes walking from Hilton.
Map here
Friday, 17 July
Hackathon Day 3
Anything you schedule for Friday will be competing with the main Wikimania Conference schedule. Don Emiliano is open for hackers to use (and pre schedule) as needed – however main Hackathon sessions should be scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday.
Time
Hacking Hall 2 – Doña Adelita
Don Emiliano
100 with rounds of 10
22 in classroom setup
09:00
Hacking!
10:00
11:00
12:00
Lunch
13:00
Hacking!
14:00
15:00
16:00
17:00
18:00
End of program. Dona Adelita remains open for quiet hacking overnight.
Saturday, 18 July and Sunday, 19 July
Unorganized Hacking Days
Outernet is hosting their
first edit-a-thon
July 18-19 in partnership with Creative Commons
as part of Mozilla's East Africa Festival. They encourage remote participation and Wikimedians may find their work intriguing (such as getting Wikipedia to offline communities). Outernet describes itself as "Humanity’s Public Library," saying that "Outernet broadcasts a data signal from satellites that is free to receive anywhere on Earth. While this is not an Internet connection, it is a free stream of critical information.
" Participation in their edit-a-thon will take place via their
wiki
Same as Friday, Doña Adelita is available 24h until the end of Wikimania.
The
Wikimania Hackathon Showcase
will be hosted on
Sunday at 14:00 in the Auditorium
. Don't miss it!
Event Organizers
rfarrand
siebrand
Omar_sansi
Qgil
Volunteers
Add your username below if you are willing to help newbies at Hackathon by staffing a "welcome table" for an hour or
being identified
as someone that new people can approach to ask questions, get started on a project or find somebody to work with.
SPage (WMF)
talk
Milimetric (WMF)
Interested
See also
buddies
for a list of existing and possible pairing buddies.
Aude
Hoo man
C. Scott Ananian (cscott)
-- interesting in organizing a hacking session around
Real-time Collaboration
, or
offline content
CT Cooper
Varnent
Ochilov
Rberchie
rfarrand
Ilya
talk
Dsvyas
User:Thamizhpparithi Maari
Photos & presentations
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Outernet blog post
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