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Berlin Hackathon 2012

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berlinhack2012@wikimedia.org

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Join the Wikimedia development community in Berlin.

Wikimedia community developers and sysadmins were invited to Berlin Hackathon 2012 to collaborate and share ideas. Videos of the Lua tutorial, secure coding tutorial, Wikidata intro, and step-by-step Git-Gerrit installation are now online, and the Gadgets/ResourceLoader video is on Vimeo. Check out the survey results and retrospective!

 
Hacking in Berlin 2011
Berlin Hackathon
  • MediaWiki & extensions developers
  • MediaWiki systems administrators
  • Toolserver users
  • Gadgets makers
  • Bots maintainers
  • Template writers
  • Users of Wikimedia bigdata

You'll work on whatever project excites you. And you'll have opportunities to learn about and hack on:

  • ResourceLoader 2 and the Gadgets rewrite
  • Lua scripting (for templates)
  • Wikimedia Germany's Wikidata initiative and other structured data projects
 

Hackathon schedule

Friday JUNE 1
1700 - 1800 Registration
1800 - 1820 Kickoff & 30-second project intros
1700 - 2300 General hacking
Saturday JUNE 2
0930 - 1030 Snacks and coffee
1000 - 1400 Hacking in main room.
1030-1130 Trainings in side rooms:
1200 - 1300 Trainings in side rooms:
1300 - 1400 Lunch
1400 - 2300 Hacking
  • 15-minute presentation by Wikidata team in rear cubicle
1900 - 2200 Minigolfing
Sunday JUNE 3
0930 - 1030 Snacks and coffee
1000 - 1300 Hacking in main room.
1045 - 1145 Trainings:
1200 - 1300 Trainings:
1300 - 1400 Lunch
1400 - 1600 Hacking
1600 - 1700 Presentations
  • Give a 2-minute summary of what you've done this weekend - MAIN ROOM
1700 - 1705 Closing session
  • Sumana sums up
 

Goals and topics for the Hackathon.

This is the premier event for the MediaWiki and Wikimedia technical community. We'll be hacking, designing, and socialising.

Our goals for the event are to bring 100-150 people together, with lots of people who have not attended such events before. User scripts, gadgets, API use, Toolserver, Wikimedia Labs, mobile, structured data, templates -- if you are into any of these things, we want you to come!

Goals:

  • More outreach to variety of people - aim for 120-130 participants (judging that ~100 came last year)
  • Get Lua training for anyone who wants it
  • Inform people about ResourceLoader 2 & new Gadgets support, train JS authors
  • Get Labs or Toolserver accounts for anyone who wants them
  • Get at least 5 gadgets/tools/templates/bots developers/authors to get into larger Wikimedia community, stay in it 3 months after event
  • Facilitate chapter tech community
  • Keep last year's quality of experience while upping attendance
  • Better social events that help build relationships, facilitate mingling.


Wikimedia organizes hackathons all year, around the world. Previous hackathon events were held in Pune, India Feb 10-12, 2012,San Francisco, USA Jan 20-22, 2012, Mumbai, India Nov 19&20, 2011, Brighton, UK Nov 18-20, 2011, NOLA, USA Oct 14-16, 2011, Berlin, Germany May 13-15, 2011, Amsterdam, Netherlands Jan 14, 2011, Washington DC, USA Oct 22–24, 2010.

Berlin attendees will include:
  1. Jeroen De Dauw - structured data (WikiData & SMW)
  2. Aude
  3. Wikinaut - discussing extensions OpenID, RSS, WikiArticleFeeds, EtherpadLite, AJAXPoll, open e-mail notification issues and more
  4. SVG - discussing about wiki farms (perhaps)
  5. Judytuna - coming from WPSFHack!
  6. Bináris (pywikipediabot developer) — listening. Bináristalk 09:57, 14 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  7. TheDJ
  8. Multichill
  9. Krinkle
  10. Smihael (most likely; interface tweaks for easier editing of Wikisource)
  11. Adam Wight Read/Write Offline
  12. OrenBochman
  13. Kolossos (Maps/OpenStreetMap)
  14. DanielRenfro (going to try to make it...pretty busy in June)
  15. Saper I'd like to refactor schema handling for various databases
  16. Max Semenik (talk) WikiData, WMF stuff
  17. Siebrand — General i18n and L10n related meddling.
  18. Sridhar Gutam
  19. Petr Bena
  20. Daniel Mietchen (WiR/OS), Open Access Media Importer
  21. TParis - Unblock Ticket Request System, and a botclasses.php based bot on English Wikipedia
  22. Dereckson - WikiData, Wikipedia articles translation helper tool
  23. esby
  24. Arkanosis
  25. Roan Kattouw
  26. Toni Hermoso
  27. Ankur anand
  28. Patricio Molina
  29. xqt pywikibot developer
  30. Husky (talk) 21:19, 22 April 2012 (UTC) - GLAM hacker.[reply]
  31. RajeshPandey (talk) 04:52, 23 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  32. Eran (talk) 10:50, 26 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  33. Dario Taraborelli
  34. SPQRobin (talk) 22:32, 16 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  35. Waldir (talk) 17:01, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  36. -- DQ (ʞlɐʇ)> 04:01, 19 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  37. Anomie (talk)
  38. --Junaidpv (talk) 05:14, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  39. LA2 (talk) - learning about Wikidata; perhaps discussing external link statistics (like this)
  40. Mfenner - build automated trackback links from Public Library of Science (PLoS) journal articles.
  41. Robert Vogel - Wants to learn about ResourceLoader, Git and Lua. Wants to share and discuss ideas about custom MW distros and MW extensibility in general.
  42. Chitetskoy (talk) 18:25, 29 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  43. Erik Zachte (talk) 07:46, 30 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  44. Kelson - Kiwix, openZIM, offline.
  45. Gabriel Wicke - Parsoid
  46. netAction
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Berlin 2012
» June 1:
Introductions and Hacking
» June 2:
Hacking and Tutorials
» June 3:
Hacking and Presentations

Registration is full

If you've already registered, please watch your email & this page for updates! If you haven't, sorry, but please come to one of our other events in the future.

Putting your name in the list on this wiki page does NOT register you for the event! But if you want to signal to other people that you're coming, go ahead. You might also enjoy using the unofficial Lanyrd service to connect with other attendees.


WikiData/Hackathon Venue

Station-berlin - Hall 6

Luckenwalder Straße 4, D-10963 Berlin


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More information

User:Sumanah for event content.

berlinhack2012@wikimedia.org for logistics.

Program coordination: Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah AT wikimedia.org>
Logistics: Nicole Ebber <nicole.ebber AT wikimedia.de>


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