User:Waldyrious/Hackathons/2019

Wikimedia Hackathon 2019

Prague, 16-19 May 2019

Preliminary plans

Originally posted on Wikimedia Hackathon 2019/Participant List

What should others ask you about?: documentation, welcoming beginner developers, regex, git, SVG, SPARQL queries, CLDR, minority languages

Your hackathon plan / relevant to other participants

My main interests currently surround Wikidata, where I'd like to work in a few fronts:

1) Systematic (semi-automated) improvement of data about various topics: given names and surnames; administrative divisions (boundaries, population...); musical notes, chords and scales; software releases and licenses; map projections, etc.

2) Improving query builders (graphical interfaces to perform SPARQL queries), as well as other tools like Mix'n'match, Wikidata game and the Distributed game, Cradle, Tabernacle, QuickStatements, Reasonator, etc.

3) Learning more about lexemes so I can start building a Cape Verdean creole dictionary.

4) Besides Wikidata, I'd love to join forces with others wanting to improve documentation and usability to make technical contributions to the Wikimedia projects easier for beginners.

Depending on who I can team up with, I hope to end up working in one or two projects from the list above, and ideally also contribute some small fixes to mediawiki.

Hacking projects

During this hackathon I focused my work on four areas:

Improving Primerpedia
Visual SPARQL query builders (see poster I made for the project matching session)
Improving documentation
Submitting bug reports and feature requests to Phabricator

I've documented this work in a lot more detail in this Workflowy document (editable version)

Sessions

In-between hacking, technical discussions and general socialization, I attended the following scheduled sessions of the event.

(For more details on the sessions, see the Program and the list of tasks on Phabricator.)

Friday, 17 May

09:30–11:00 → Opening session
11:00–11:30 → Poster creation session
12:00–12:30 → Project matching session
18:30–19:30 → Jam band

Saturday, 18 May

13:30–14:00 → Group photo
16:00–17:00 → Wikidata meeting
18:30–19:30 → Jam band
19:30–20:30 → Bohemian beer tasting

Sunday, 19 May

11:00–12:00 → Wikibase install party
15:00–18:00 → Hackathon closing & showcase