Hackathon – Wikimania 2016 in Esino Lario

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Hackathon
Wikimania Hackathon 2016
will take place on Wednesday, 22 June 2016 and Thursday, 23 June 2016 during the Wikimania 2016 pre-conference.
Developers, designers and anyone interested in collaborating on a technical hacking project are welcome
at the Hackathon.
First Hackathon? Read this!
Email sent to Hackathon participants
on Thursday, June 9.
(If you did not receive this email you are not registered for the Hackathon. If you are still interested in attending the event please contact the
event organizers
.)
Email to mentors
from June 17.
Email to newcomers
from June 17.
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
Wikimania Hackathon 2016 Registration is closed as of 31 May, the event is at capacity.
In order to attend the hackathon, you must have registered for Wikimania and the Hackathon in advance.
If you are looking for other pre-Wikimania events and activities, please refer to the main
Wikimania program
Everyone who registered for the event is approved to attend.
What is a Hackathon?
Wikimania
Hackathons
(sometimes called "Hacking days" or "DevCamps") 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), 2015 (Mexico City), there have also been various other Wikimedia
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.
Hackathon Focus Areas
If you are looking for something to work on, the main focus of the Wikimania Hackathon is to complete
Community Wishlist projects
See
phab:T135422 "Wishlist tasks suggested for the Wikimania Hackathon 2016"
for a few recommendations.
If you are not sure which one to pick, we can help you.
If you have your own hacking project, great!
Program / Schedule information
The hackathon program changes continually throughout the event, therefor we do not print the program on paper. You will need a laptop or mobile device connected to wifi or data in order to access the program.
Program
Main:
Hackathon/Program
You can find the hacking, room logistic, and breakout session schedule here
. Please read the "how to schedule a session" section below, before scheduling anything! You can begin scheduling NOW!
How to schedule a session
Anyone at the hackathon can schedule a session. Please follow these steps.
Create a Phabricator Task
about your session and invite any specific people (e.g. by adding them to the "Subscribers" field) you would like to attend to that task. Please associate your Phabricator task with the
Wikimania-Hackathon-2016 work board.
Create an
etherpad
using
this template
to take notes during the session. Add a link to this etherpad in the description of your Phabricator task.
Schedule your session during a 1 hour time slot here on the
Hackathon/Program
. If you need more than an hour, please check with nwilson and rfarrand. Link the Etherpad from
etherpad:p/WikimaniaHack16_AllNotes
Update your Phabricator task to indicate the time and location of your session / discussion / talk
Prepare in advance for your talk, there will be projectors in each breakout room!
Show up early!
Delegate etherpad note-taking to someone in your audience!
End on time!
After your talk, write a summary of what was accomplished, decided, created, etc. at your talk, and post it on your Phabricator task.
More info about Phabricator and how to create an account:
Phabricator/Help
Please visit the Hackathon Help Desk if you would like help scheduling a session.
Venue
The 2016 Wikimania Hackathon will be in multiple locations around Esino Lario, Italy.
The hackathon opening will take place at the Gym Palace.
The beginner track will take place at the Kindergarten, in the theater.
The hacking space and most of the breakout sessions will be in the Primary School.
The hackathon showcase will be in the Primary School (room #11), at 18:00-19:00 on Saturday.
You can use this map to find the locations listed above and your way around Esino Lario:
Hackathon Showcase
17:30-18:30 on Saturday at the Primary School (room #11).
Do you want to Volunteer?
We can use some volunteer help at the hackathon! Please sign up below for anything you are interested in helping with
Staff the "help-desk"
Newcomers and people without projects will come to the help-desk to ask questions and find projects, sign up here if you are willing to help answer these questions during a portion of the hackathon. Add a quick sentence summarizing what you are willing to do!
Quiddity (WMF)
talk
) - I'll be trying to keep track of who is working on what, so that people with questions can find people with answers.
Isarra
- I can help if you tell me how.
Slashme
talk
) - I have one specific project I want to work on, and the rest of the time I'll be willing to help out in the same way as Isarra.
I JethroBT (WMF)
talk
) 03:46, 21 June 2016 (UTC) - I'll be milling about and checking in with the tables regarding
IdeaLab
and funding needs, so I can head the help desk for a time and direct folks appropriately.
...and here
Help with Presentations
Help people put together their presentations for the Hackathon showcase, you can help with design work, video work, organizational help, presentation coaching. Add a quick sentence summarizing what you are willing to do!
Slashme
talk
) I have experience doing presentations, I know how to use a range of presentation platforms (e.g. Prezi, LaTeX Beamer, etc.) and I have good English skills, so I can coach presenters who are not confident in English. I'm also OK with Blender, Inkscape and the GIMP, so I can help with graphic design and layout.
...and here
Other volunteer offers
What can you help with!? We are open to new ideas!
Add your name here
...and here
Participants
Add your information below if you are attending and would like to connect with others in advance of the Hackathon
Name
(real name or user name or both)
Contact Info
(IRC, phab, email, or however you prefer to be contacted)
Projects, interests & about yourself
(link your Phabricator task if you have it, why are you attending the hackathon and what do you hope to accomplish or learn)
Location at Hackathon
(To be filled out after the event has started, which room are you sitting in? What Table? How can other people find you?)
Rachel Farrand
rfarrand@wikimedia.org IRC: rfarrand
I am interested in talking about planning technical events, hackathons, the Developer Summit, the Wikimedia Engineering community, tech talks that you would like to run, and/or Mountaineering.
Hackathon Help Desk!
Nicolas VIGNERON
VIGNERON
, vigneron.nicolas
wikimedia.fr IRC: VIGNERON
No big tech skills but I'll be glad to help, especially on Wikisource
Quiddity / Nick
IRC: quiddity, nwilson
wikimedia.org
Interested in tools for collaboration and discussion, design and accessibility, and trying to explain things clearly.
Hackathon Help Desk! Plus wandering.
Dan Andreescu
dandreescu@wikimedia.org
IRC: milimetric
I'm happy to help with hacking, prototypes, ideas, architecture, accessing analytics resources, finding other people who can help you.
I'll stop by the Help Desk but I'll probably be wandering around.
Nemo
Nemo_bis
i18n
/l10n/translation and
translatewiki.net
, Open Access etc. Room 40
Andrea Zanni
Aubrey
No real tech skills but interest in working on Wikisource, book on Wikidata, Wikicite.
I'll not be available on 22nd afternoon, but the rest I'll wandering around. If you don't know me, feel free to shout.
Lucie-Aimée Kaffee
(Frimelle)
IRC: frimelle
lucie.kaffee@wikimedia.de
Working on the
ArticlePlaceholder
extension, anything Wikidata/Wikibase related, espacially SPARQL and the
query service
, also great fan of Lua
Giuseppe Lavagetto
IRC: _joe_
I am interested in working on automation/tools for our infrastructure, or help anyone who needs Ops support
Probably in a corner, in front of a laptop, with large headphones. But I don't bite. Well, at least most of the times.
Tony Thomas
IRC: tonythomas
Mail: 01tonythomas@gmail.com
I will be working on the Newsletter team to get it to production. I would love to work on something that involves mail, etc.
If there is a Newsletter extension table somewhere - there.
Legoktm
IRC: legoktm
Interested in mostly everything
I'll probably have a name tag on.
Matt Flaschen
IRC: matt_flaschen
Flow, Echo, MediaWiki-Vagrant (Puppet), PHP and JavaScript (including on-wiki user scripts and gadgets) in general, Code of Conduct, etc. I will be leading the MediaWiki-Vagrant install party. I am always glad to answer questions, and if I don't know the answer, I can probably point you to someone who does.
Isarra
IRC: Isarra
I do user-facing stuff, skins, design; current main project is
WikiProject X
, and I don't remember why I'm attending
I may have a nametag that says 'YuviPanda' on.
Rita Ho
IRC: reets
I'm a UX designer on the Reading Team and this is my first Wikimania and Hackathon, so mainly keen to meet and work with Community members. Project interests would be to those related to improving the reading and editing experience on our mobile apps.
Sam Wilson
IRC: samwilson
Anything Wikisource-related (esp. connecting to Wikidata).
Giovanni Genna
Mail: giovanni.genna@me.com
I'm a fullstack web developer and this is my first Hackathon. I want to try to give my contribute to the community of Wikimania.
Sjoerd de Bruin
IRC: sjoerddebruin
Newbie, love UI and UX; hope to improve my workflow on Wikimedia projects
Ilario Valdelli
IRC: ilario
Humanist and IT specialist, I am following the development of some tools in Switzerland focused to have the life of the community much easier
Marios Magioladitis
IRC: magioladitis
Python, C#, PHP, bots, automated tools, things like that...
Basvb
email
or
talk page
Background in Data Science/Machine learning/AI (using python), would love to do something with that, no active projects. Maybe
this idea
with batch uploads.
Andre Klapper
IRC: andre__
Phabricator; Wikimedia technical community. Just ask me
anything
- happy to help.
Mathieu Stumpf Guntz
msg at wikimedia.fr
nickname (also on IRC): psychoslave
Currently more interested in i18n topics, I seek to help more on this topic. I'm also particularly interested in compilers and Esperanto.
Zack
Talk page
Phab
RTL support, gadgets, mobile
Trizek / Benoît
IRC: Trizek, bevellin
wikimedia.org
Interested in tools for collaboration and discussion, documentation, non-technical projects (
Translations
TemplateData
...)
Around Hackathon Help Desk, and room 30.
Hoo man
(hoo)
Wikidata developer. Will probably be working on the ArticlePlaceholder and maybe Infoboxes.
Nikerabbit
nlaxstrom@wikimedia.org
IRC: Nikerabbit
I work on translations tools and language support (i18n). I am happy to introduce people to these topics and help on issues related to them. I will also be working on
translatewiki.net
, so come to talk to me if you are working a tool that has an interface that could be translated.
Currently room 40.
Tobias
Tobias1984
talk
tobias47n9e@gmail.com
IRC: tobias47n9e
Would like to work on the Wikidata infoboxes for Wikisource or something similar related to Wikidata.
Markus Glaser
glaser@hallowelt.com
IRC: mglaser
I will work on translation of MediaWiki documentation, a MediaWiki usage survey and on the concept of an extension store.
James Forrester
IRC: James_F
Editing tools, including VisualEditor, wikitext, Multimedia and other things you care about.
Gabriel Birke
IRC: chiborg
Offline content generation (OCG), will work on
table appendix
and
experimental table rendering
Tpt
IRC: Tpt
Anything related to Wikisource or Wikidata
Volker E.
IRC: Volker_E
UX Engineer working on user-facing interfaces, design and accessibility; OOjs UI; exchange with community members on their user experience issues.
Jan Ainali
IRC: Ainali
I have a 360 camera with me if anyone want inspiration to work on
Phabricator:T70719
. Otherwise I'll work on a wordpress-admin-style mini pageview graph, getting ORES to svwp and better documentation for my
Wikipedia quiz on Github
Yuvi Panda
IRC: yuvipanda
I am on the tool labs team, and also build [paws.wmflabs.org PAWS], hacking on Jupyter / IPython notebooks.
Albin Larsson
albin.post@gmail.com
I will work on boilerplates and examples for the all new
Warper API
. If anyone finds them self in need of help with this API(or others ones) I will be there to help.
Send me a email and I will come by to help out if needed. I will likely have my name printed on my back too so just catch me...
Dafna
email: dafna3@gmail.com, IRC: dafna-the-cool,
I started to work on a pywikibot that validate uniformity in all Hebrew wiktionary articles. Also, I have a
board with me if you are interested in a break.
mail me or irc
Leszek Manicki (WMDE)
IRC: leszek_wmde,
I will be looking into improving
Revision Slider extension
. I am also glad to talk about things like PDF rendering, improving edit conflict resolution, or including page numbers etc in references. Just poke me to talk about things.
Felix
flixtey@gmail.com
Improvement with Kiwix and offline editing
Deb Tankersley
irc: debt
I'm a product manager for the WMF Discovery team, currently working on updating the wikipedia.org portal. This is my first Wikimania and I'm here to listen and chat about how we can better collaborate and learn together.
I'll probably be walking around somewhere :)
bachounda
bachounda@gmail.com
at this hackathon i'm focused to have me more experience inside the mediawiki ecosystem
Recommended Items to Bring
Laptop and charger, it will be very hard to participate without these!
Power plug converters
Please note that the italian 10A socket will accept 2 pin Europlug but
doesn't accept CEE7/4 (Schuko) or 7/6 (French Schuko) plugs
. We have a number of power strips with both italian 10/16A and Schuko 7/4 sockets but we will not guarantee that there'll be enough free Schuko sockets available for everything (i.e. you should bring an adapter!). If you arrive from USA or a country with a power standard of 120VAC 60Hz, pay attention before using a simple adapter; here
the standard is 230VAC, 50Hz
! If the device will not accept a wide range of input power (normally laptop transformers have a wide range circuit inside) you could damage your device!
Phone charger
Preferred note taking tools
Reusable water bottle (there are ways to refill these)
Video output converters for possible presentations
For chargers, converters etc, consider labelling them with your name/email address
Media
Commons Category:
Category:Wikimania 2016 Hackathon
IRC channel:
#wmhack
connect
Twitter hashtag: #wmhack
Event Organizers
Simone Sala, simone[dot]sala[at]gmail.com (co-organizer)
Rachel Farrand, rfarrand
wikimedia.org (co-organizer)
Nick Wilson nwilson
wikimedia.org (co-organizer)
Siebrand Mazeland (hackathon showcase)
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