User:01tonythomas/Hackathons

This is a personal space to quote down my various involvements with the Wikimedia movement.

Upcoming events

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Name of the event Location Country Year Date of the event Role Links Remarks

Past events

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Name of the event Location Country Year Date of the event Role Links Remarks
Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 Athens Greece 2023 19 - 21 May, 2023 Participant/ Trust and safety team Worked on task T336692 to use ChatGPT to summarise Wikipedia article sections. - Demo: here.

- Report: here

Wikimedia Hackathon 2019 Prague Czech 2019 17 - 19 May 2019 Participant/ Friendly Space Team member Worked on Tool to upload pictures from Google Drive to Wikimedia Commons - Hackathon project published at Toolforge

- Pictures uploaded to Commons: Wikimedia 2018 Collection

Wikimedia Hackathon 2018 Barcelona Spain 2018 18 – 20 May 2018 Mentor/Participant Wikimedia Hackathon 2018/Venue and Barcelona Report coming soon
Wikimania 2018 Cape Town South Africa 2018 18 – 22 July 2018 Participant Wikimedia DE Scholarship to attend the program Report coming soon at Wikimania_2018
MediaWiki Training 2018 Bangalore India 2018q 1 - 2 Feb Mentor, Participant Event: CIS Mediawiki Workshop 2018 Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:CIS-A2K_MediaWiki_Training_2018
Wikimania 2017 Montreal Canada 2017 9 - 13 August Participant

Could not make it due to other issues that came up

Submitted proposal Wikimedia DE Scholarship to attend the program[1].
Wikimedia Hackathon 2017 Vienna Austria 2017 19-21 May Participant, Mentor https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159081 Report: What can happen in 3 days
FOSSASIA 2017 Singpore Singpore 2017 17-19 March Speaker Event: http://2017.fossasia.org/

TPS request

Workshop on "Developing your functional Mediawiki Extension in 80 Minutes"

Workshop help: User:01tonythomas/Hackathons/ExtensionHack

KDE Conf India IIT Guwahati India 2017 10-12 March Speaker Event: https://conf.kde.in/ Talk on "Why apply for GSoC in 2017". Slides
Wikimedia Conference Berlin Germany 2017 31 March - 02 Apr Attendee Event N/A
WikitoLearn India Conference LNMIIT, Jaipur India 2017 18-19 Jan Mentor (speaker) Event: https://india2017.wikitolearn.events Slides: http://slides.com/tonythomas01/deck-23#/

Report: Blog post. Funded by KDE

Wikimedia Hackathon, Amrita University Kerala India 2016 1-2 Oct Organizer Event: Wikimedia Hackathon Amrita University Funded by WMF
Wikimedia Hackathon, BITS Hyderabad Hyderabad India 2016 24 - 25 Sept Mentor Event: Wikimedia Hackathon BPHC Slides: http://slides.com/tonythomas01/deck-22, Funded by WMF
Wikimedia Conference India Chandigarh India 2016 3rd August Speaker Event: Wiki Conference, India Slides: http://slides.com/tonythomas01/deck-21#/
Wikimedia Hacakthon, IIT Roorkee Derahdun India 2016 12 March Mentor + Organizer Event: Wikimedia Hackathon IIT Roorkee Slides: http://slides.com/tonythomas01/wikimedia
Wikimedia Hackathon 2016 Jerusalem Israel 2016 31 Mar - 04 Apr Attendee Event: Wikimedia Hackathon 2016 Mostly worked on Newsletter extension tasks and also key changes to the HTML Email GSoc project (with Tyler)
Wikimania 2016 Esino Lario Italy 2016 21-28 June Attendee Event: Wikimania 2016 Report: User:01tonythomas/Wikimania 2016
Wikimedia Hackathon 2015, Lyon Lyon France 2015 23- 25 May Attendee Event: Wikimedia Hackathon 2015 Mostly worked on the Newsletter extension with the GSoC 2015 team
GSoC Mentors Summit SFO USA 2016 28 Oct- 1st Nov Attendee Event: GSoC Mentors Summit Ran discussion on GSoC failures
Wikimedia Developers Summit SFO USA 2015 26 - 27 Jan Attendee Event: MediaWiki Developer Summit 2015 Talk on 'Implementing bouncehandler to handle Email bounces'