Wikimedia Hackathon 2017/Program

Schedule

How to schedule breakout sessions

How to schedule Proposed Sessions & Skill Share:

If your breakout session lasts up to 1 hour
- schedule it yourself in the tables below in one of the time slots indicated as free!
- OR ask the hackathon organizers via hackathon@wikimedia.at to do this for you.
If your breakout session lasts longer than 1 hour
- please reach out to hackathon@wikimedia.at and don't schedule this session on your own.

All sessions need to have an associated Phabricator task with a description linked to the schedule. If you are unsure how to create one we can help you at hackathon@wikimedia.at

If you already have a Phabricator account and are interested in attending a specific breakout session please subscribe to the associated task on Phabricator so that breakout session organizers know how many people to expect.

Thursday 18 May 2017

	Atrium	off-site
	central area with hotel reception, information and registration desk, couches and more	= not at JUFA Wien City
13	13-19 Information and registration desk + 17.30-18 Mentor meeting
14		14-17 City tour to Zentralfriedhof (extra registration required)	14.30-17 City tour to the historic centre of Vienna (extra registration required)
15
16
17		17-21 Vienna Open Data MeetUp & Open Data Drinks
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19
20

Friday 19 May 2017

	Room Heuriger	Room Blunzn	Room Gurkerl	Room Powidl	Room Wiaschtl	Atrium	Restaurant	Café Wien	off-site
	for hacking: 100 workstations at table groups	for hacking: 35 workstations at table groups	for hacking: 55 workstations at table groups; extra 20 seats at table groups next to fixed projector and screen, flip chart	for breakout sessions: 25 seats at table groups, fixed projector and screen, flip chart	for breakout sessions: 25 seats around tables in U-shape, fixed projector and screen, flip chart	central area with hotel reception, information and registration desk, couches and more	only during mealtimes	40 seats, 24 hrs free snacks station	= not at JUFA Wien City
7	room closed	room closed	room closed	room closed	room closed		7-10 Breakfast
8						8-17 Information and registration desk
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10	10-11.30 Opening
11	room closed	11.30-24 Hacking	11.30-24 Hacking + Wikidata documentation sprint starting at 11.30	11.30-13 Fantastic MediaWikis - What are others using MW for? - The Vienna History Wiki - A Quality Management System under SMW (ESA)	11.30-13.30 Introduction Mentoring Program			informal hacking and meeting space
12	12.30-24 Hacking						12-14.30 Lunch
13
14				14-15:30 Fantastic MediaWikis - Deploying MW with Oregano - Introducing Houstrails (Baugschichte.at) - Synchronizing multiple SMWs	14-15 Humanities, social sciences and wikis
15					15-16 Wikimedia Technical Areas: An Overview
16				16-18 Fantastic MediaWikis - Learning from Confluence? - How do I make my MW work with VisualEditor? - Promoting MediaWiki (panel)	16-17 Skillshare: Setup MediaWiki development environment
17					17-18 Introduction to Wikimedia Phabricator (project management tool)	17.30-18 Mentor meeting
17
18				room closed	18-19 Selenium/WebdriverIO tests in JavaScript/Node.js		18-21 Pizza
19				room closed	19-20 Flagged revisions: Current state and future plans
20				20-21 Breton dance	free!			20-23 Karaoke
21				room closed	free!
22				free!	free!
23				free!	free!

Saturday 20 May 2017

	Room Heuriger	Room Blunzn	Room Gurkerl	Room Powidl	Room Wiaschtl	Atrium	Restaurant	Café Wien	off-site
	for hacking: 100 workstations at table groups	for hacking: 35 workstations at table groups	for hacking: 55 workstations at table groups; extra 20 seats at table groups next to fixed projector and screen, flip chart	for breakout sessions: 25 seats at table groups, fixed projector and screen, flip chart	for breakout sessions: 25 seats around tables in U-shape, fixed projector and screen, flip chart	central area with hotel reception, information and registration desk, couches and more	only during mealtimes	for breakout sessions: 40 seats, projector and screen; 24 hrs free snacks station	= not at JUFA Wien City
0	0-24 Hacking	0-24 Hacking	0-24 Hacking + Wikidata documentation sprint starting at 10
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2
3
4
5
6
7							7-10 Breakfast
8
9				09:15-10:00 translatewiki.net system continuity and disaster recovery	free!	9-17 Information and registration desk + 10-10.30 Newcomer mentor meeting		free!
10				10-11 Future of "Extension:LDAP Authentication"	10-11 Wikimedia Movement Strategy discussion			10-11 Selenium/WebdriverIO tests in JavaScript/Node.js
11				Build things with the Wikipedia edit trends API	11-12 Intro to Cloud Services (Labs, Tool Labs, database replicas, oh my)			free!
12				12-13 Open Knowledge Maps for the Wikiverse!	SPARQL for Wikidata workshop		12-14.30 Lunch	free!
13				13-14 WikimediaUI Style Guide: Find help for your interface questions	Progressive web apps (session 2)			free!
14				14-15 Who wants some ORES?	14-15 How to write an extension for BlueSpice			free!
15				15-16 Group discussion: what do GLAMs want from Wikidata and structured data on Commons, and how to act upon that?	15-16 Create a Central Gadget Taskforce			15-16 Selenium/WebdriverIO tests in JavaScript/Node.js
16				16-17 GLAMpipe: Current state and future plans	16-17 Introduction to Wikifab (A suite of extensions to create a Dozuki-like MediaWiki)	16-17 The Sweet Taste of Austria		free!
17				room closed	room closed	17-17.30 Group photo
17				room closed	room closed	17.30-18 Mentor meeting
18				18:00-18:30 Ladies that FOSS & how to include women in free software	free!		18-21 Dinner
19				free!	free!
20				free!	free!
21				free!	free!				21- Hackathon Party
22				free!	free!
23				free!	free!

Sunday 21 May 2017

	Room Heuriger	Room Blunzn	Room Gurkerl	Room Powidl	Room Wiaschtl	Atrium	Restaurant	Café Wien	off-site
	for hacking: 100 workstations at table groups	for hacking: 35 workstations at table groups	for hacking: 55 workstations at table groups; extra 20 seats at table groups next to fixed projector and screen, flip chart	for breakout sessions: 25 seats at table groups, fixed projector and screen, flip chart	for breakout sessions: 25 seats around tables in U-shape, fixed projector and screen, flip chart	central area with hotel reception, information and registration desk, couches and more	only during mealtimes	for breakout sessions: 40 seats, projector and screen; 24 hrs free snacks station	= not at JUFA Wien City
0	0-14 Hacking 10:00-13:00 EPIC: Detect and prevent UI regressions	0-17 Hacking	0-17 Hacking + Wikidata documentation sprint starting at 10						Hackathon Party
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3
4
5
6
7							7-10 Breakfast
8
9				free!	free!			free!
10				Building Better Software	How to translate user documentation	10-15 Information and registration desk + 10-10.30 Newcomer mentor meeting		free!
11				Developers and MediaWiki: How to become BFFs?	MediaWiki Development for Beginners			free!
12				Tech event organizers meetup	MediaWiki Development for Beginners		12-14.30 Lunch	free!
13				free!	MediaWiki Development for Beginners			free!	13-15.30 City tour to the historic centre of Vienna (extra registration required)
14	room closed			free!	free!			free!
15	15.30-17 Showcase & Closing
16	15.30-17 Showcase & Closing

Contribute to the Program

Wikimedia’s technical areas

Propose a session, workshop, or project

Proposed Sessions - Session covering any of the Wikimedia’s technical areas.
Skill Share - Hands-on skill development workshops on topics around technology stack of Wikimedia projects.
Featured Tasks - List of projects that are suitable for volunteers proposed by the participants and curated by the organizers.
Backlog - If you don't know where to list your task, add it here and we will help you.

For any of the items listed below, create a task on Phabricator, add #Wikimedia-Hackathon-2017 tag, and import it to the respective column on the workboard. Also, indicate in the task description if your proposed activity is newcomer-friendly.

Become a point of contact for a project of your own or from our list of ideas

Featured Tasks

If you're interested in working on a project listed below, add yourself as one of the team members. If you would like to be a point of contact for a project during the Hackathon, add your name in the relevant section. Let us know if there is anything we could help you with beforehand. Feel free to add a new project idea to this table!

Task title	Skills & additional details	Point of contact	Interested member(s)	Status
Increment user_editcount during page moves #small #newcomer-friendly	Familiarity with MediaWiki in general, PHP, Javascript	Kaldari	Ad Huikeshoven	patch submitted
Add page indicator to show that the page being viewed is protected #small #newcomer-friendly	CSS, PHP, Familiarity with MediaWiki interface Note: A day long task for experienced contributor. When this task is done, check with Technical Collaboration team about announcements.	matmarex
Add new inverted filters options to Special:Contributions #small #newcomer-friendly	PHP, Javascript, Familiarity with MediaWiki in general Note: See JS file linked in the task.
Use quotes instead of bolding in email subjects #small <#newcomer-friendly	Familiarity with MediaWiki in general, PHP, Javascript	Catrope
Make it easy to filter notifications by type #small #newcomer-friendly	Familiarity with MediaWiki in general, PHP, Javascript	Catrope
Escape round parentheses so they properly show in the 'To' field of an email #small #newcomer-friendly	Familiarity with MediaWiki in general, PHP, Javascript Note: 6, 7 & 8 are related tasks	Catrope
User rights change notification email does not specify in body which account was affected #small #newcomer-friendly	Familiarity with MediaWiki in general, PHP, Javascript Note: 6, 7 & 8 are related tasks	Catrope
Use quotes instead of boldings in email subjects #small #newcomer-friendly	Familiarity with MediaWiki in general, PHP, Javascript Note: 6, 7 & 8 are related tasks	Catrope
Notifications for replies received on a new topic #small #newcomer-friendly	Familiarity with MediaWiki in general, PHP, Javascript	Catrope
General improvements for the Newsletter extension #small #newcomer-friendly	PHP, Javascript, Familiarity with MediaWiki in general	01tonythomas	Srishti, MtDu	A few patches for bugs have been submitted & merged T159081
A Django REST page on wmflabs to request images and plan campaigns #small #newcomer-friendly	Postgresql + Postgis, Django framework, Javascript, MediaWiki OAuth	Tobias1984
Commons Android app: Improvements #small #newcomer-friendly	Familiarity with Android app development, Java & HTML Note: Follow the discussion on Github about the team's hackathon plans for this project.	Josephine_I	Nark0
Left-to-right mark doesn't get removed from pasted usernames #small #newcomer-friendly	Familiarity with Ruby	Sage Ross
IOS app: Convert some legacy Obj-C code to Swift #big #newcomer-friendly	Familiarity with Objective-C & Swift language	Mhurd
Automate sourcing of existing Wikidata statements by expanding existing scripts #big #newcomer-friendly	Familiarity with PHP & Wikidata	Lydia_Pintscher
Develop new games using Wikidata's data #big #newcomer-friendly	Familiarity with PHP & Wikidata	Lydia_Pintscher
Create new visualizations for Wikidata query service #big #newcomer-friendly	Familiarity with PHP, Wikidata and data visualization libraries	Lydia_Pintscher
Change Wikipedia Android app to make it work with another MediaWiki installation #medium #newcomer-friendly	Familiarity with Android app development, Java, some JavaScript & HTML	bearND	Florianschmidtwelzow Nark0 PurleBasil	in progress
Flow OAuth proof of concept #medium #newcomer-friendly	Can use any frontend libraries (OOjs UI, Bootstrap, Backbone, Android, etc.). Initial implementation is not expected to be feature-complete.	Mattflaschen-WMF
Fix bugs in the Navigation popups gadget #medium #newcomer-friendly	Familiarity with Javascript
Add support for importing article ratings via Wikidata badges #medium	Comfortable with Ruby and also familiar with MediaWiki APIs	Sage Ross
Improve support for read access restriction / access control #small	PHP Note: needs someone familiar with MediaWiki authorization to know where to look & make a list
Review and deploy ThrottleOverride extension to Wikimedia wikis #small	Familiarity with extensions development Note: learn helpful pointers here in the ticket	Dereckson or Reedy
Integrate a modern debug / error display tool into MediaWiki #medium	PHP & basic extension writing Note: make `MWExceptionRenderer` replaceable & write an extension to replace it	Tgr
Remove IE8 hacks/workarounds/etc. from extensions	Javascript, shell	Tgr
Add syntax highlighting to wiki diff of source code pages (like Gerrit) #small	PHP, HTML, CSS	SamanathaNguyen
Add a maintenance script for complete cache reset #small	PHP, familiarity with MediaWiki caching layers Note: learn helpful pointers here in the ticket	Tgr
Review and update the Examples extension #small #newcomer-friendly	PHP, Javascript	Tgr
Allow excluding soft redirected categories on Special:UnusedCategories #medium #newcomer-friendly	PHP, SQL	Tgr
Add global logging context #small #newcomer-friendly	PHP	Tgr
provide Special:RelatedChanges/Special:RecentChangesLinked functionality via API #small	PHP, MediaWiki API	Tgr
Fix or replace Module:Assemble multilingual message #small	Lua	Tgr
Add a welcome bot to Differential for first time contributors <#small		Tgr
Add a welcome bot to Gerrit for first time contributors <#small		Tgr
WordPress plugin to associate tags with Wikidata IDs #medium	Familiarity with WordPress plugins; Schema.org	Pigsonthewing (not present at Hackathon, but ping me on Wikidata, Phabricator or Twitter
New User Landing Page - Article Creation Workflow #big	CSS, Javascript, Design skills	MusikAnimal, Kaldari	Cmadeo
Notification: Your file was used #big	PHP, Javascript, familiarity with MediaWiki in general	Lea_WMDE
Identify high-use gadgets and ensure that they have proper long-term maintenance #big	Familiarity with developing gadgets Note: Action items for this task are in Create a Central Gadget Taskforce
Create a Central Gadget Taskforce #big	Note: Subtask of above project
A cross-wiki "What links here" (aggregate local iwbacklinks from wikis) #big	PHP, Javascript, familiarity with MediaWiki in general Note: This project would require architecture review. To understand the problem, explore a tool like this first: https://tools.wmflabs.org/guc/	Krinkle
Notify users about deletion tags being added to pages they created #big	PHP, Javascript, familiarity with MediaWiki in general
Implement Internet Archive BookReader in Commons & Wikisource #big	Integration skills & more Note: First pick a best pdf reader (e.g. Book2Scroll, Internet Archive)
Bento: A new reading experience for Wikipedia #big	Design skills	Nirzar
Continue to increase the amount of Wikidata in Wikisources #big			Samwilson
Add feature annotate/blame command, to indicate who last changed each line / word #complex	PHP, Familiarity with MediaWiki Note: Requires familiarity with implementation of diff engines. Dig into SCM systems like CVS, SVN and GIT, where this concept already exists
Automatically propose/suggest a category for images #research	Image recognition/ analysis, NLP Note: Check subtask: Investigate computer vision image classification and description tools for shadow tags and search descriptions	WereSpielChequers
RevisionSlider: Do not reload diff when dragging back to original position. #small	Javascript	WMDE-Fisch (Christoph Jauera)
RevisionSlider: Adjust sliding animation time of pointers on short distances. #small	Javascript	WMDE-Fisch (Christoph Jauera)
RevisionSlider: Add keyboard shortcuts to move between revisions. #small	Javascript	WMDE-Fisch (Christoph Jauera)
RevisionSlider: Make RevisionSlider usable for screenreader users. #small	HTML, Javascript	WMDE-Fisch (Christoph Jauera)
RevisionSlider:Make RevisionSlider more feature complete for REL 1.27. #small	GIT, Javascript	WMDE-Fisch (Christoph Jauera)
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114609 -- metrolook footer weirdness #small #newcomer-friendly	CSS, skinning, paladox	Isarra
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146593 -- overflow issues on special:version in various skins #small #newcomer-friendly	CSS; is a core change	Isarra
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156134 , https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156133 , https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156132 , https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156131 -- various overflow issues on (specific) mobile interfaces	CSS issues, layout issues, possibly some terribly archaic code issues; triage whatever is actually sane to do out of all of these if you want	Isarra
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159623 -- socialprofile button showing up issue #small #newcomer-friendly	JavaScript, UI stuff - prolly a few lines of JS to fix	Isarra
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162653 -- Refreshed should use core-provided tablet width variable #small #newcomer-friendly	PHP? Probably very simple to fix	Isarra
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155281 -- Semantify Nimbus with HTML5 elements	If you're wondering what this means, I don't know either. I recommend asking on the task.	Isarra
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155283 -- Skin contains a 'hilariously-bad-hack-for-responsiveness' #large	This is technically a valid ticket, but let's be real, the status quo is acceptable even if the code is fugly.	Isarra
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155219 , https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155259 , https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155261 , https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155263 , https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132038 , https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106689 -- add mobile support to skins with none! #epic	Various wordings, all the same thing. Skins lack responsiveness/mobile support. This is not all of them.	Isarra
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147246 , https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147247 , https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147248 , https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147249 , https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147250 -- one issue, five different skins: add indicators. #small #newcomer-friendly	The PHP part here is easy, just steal the ~1 line of code out of vector. CSS to make it act sanely on the page may be a bit more complicated.	Isarra

Express your interest in being a point of contact for one of the featured tasks, or for your own project idea by adding it to the table.
A good example of a proposed featured project is one which is clearly articulated, attainable, and not requiring complex or lengthy discussion from subject matter experts before implementation. Projects suitable for onboarding newcomers are most welcomed.
Being a point of contact for a project means, that you will be available and willing to answer any project-related queries at the hackathon.

Express your interest in contributing to a project of your own or from our list of ideas

If you would like to contribute or work on one of the featured tasks during the hackathon, list yourself under ‘Interested member(s)’ column in the table. You are welcome to add your own idea too!
With this, we would like to connect you with other attendees looking to work on similar projects as you do before the hackathon.

Opening

Friday 19 May 2017, 10-11.30 – in Room Heuriger

Welcome to the Wikimedia Hackathon 2017 in Vienna!

Etherpad notes from the participant "open mic" at the end of the opening: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WMHACK17_Opening

Social and side events

City tour to Zentralfriedhof

Wikimedians at Zentralfriedhof

Thursday 18 May 2017, 14-17 – starting and end point: next to the information and registration desk at the Atrium

Austrian Wikimedians Häferl and Regiomontanus will show you the Zentralfriedhof , Vienna's main cemetery where Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, the Strauss family and other personalities from the city’s past are buried. We will use public transport to get there, so make sure that you have your public transport ticket with you.

Please register here with your signature --~~~~ (max. 20 participants):

MJPCubelo
MusikAnimal ^talk 03:18, 12 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Will try, if compatible with other meetings. --Nemo 14:38, 16 May 2017 (UTC) P.s.: See commons:Category talk:Zentralfriedhof, Vienna.[reply]
-— Isarra ༆ 17:13, 16 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Nikerabbit (talk) 10:50, 18 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
--Zache (talk) 11:05, 18 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

City tours to the historic centre of Vienna

Historic centre of Vienna

Tour 1: Thursday 18 May 2017, 14.30-17 – starting and end point: next to the information and registration desk in the Atrium
Tour 2: Sunday 21 May 2017, 13-15.30 – starting and end point: next to the information and registration desk in the Atrium

Our Hackathon Party DJ Eugene (tour 1; replacing Volker, due to late arrival) as well as the Austrian Wikimedians Thomas Ledl, Plani, Regiomontanus and Ailura (tour 2) will show you the historic centre of Vienna . We will use public transport to get there, so make sure that you have your public transport ticket with you.

Please register here for tour 1 (Thursday) with your signature --~~~~ (max. 30 participants):

Anomie (talk)
--Sandaru (talk) 19:44, 12 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
JMatazzoni (WMF) (talk) 19:58, 12 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Maskaravivek (talk) 5:25, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
--Narek (talk) 18:45, 14 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Ashot (talk) 10:26, 16 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
siebrand (talk) 16:24, 16 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
pierre 18:36, 16 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Julie 18:36, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
Fuzheado
— putnik 07:16, 18 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Magioladitis (talk) 12:04, 18 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please register here for tour 2 (Sunday) with your signature --~~~~ (max. 35 participants):

MJPCubelo
Strainu (talk)
--FNDE (talk) 20:04, 12 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Ziko
DenisaRucaj (talk) 20:22, 12 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Smalyshev (WMF) (talk) 06:20, 13 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Ad Huikeshoven (talk) 13:57, 13 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
DerHexer (talk) 08:41, 14 May 2017 (UTC) Probably.[reply]
01tonythomas (talk) 09:39, 13 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
MViswanathan (WMF) (talk) 16:31, 14 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
NKohli (WMF) (talk) 19:46, 14 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Yarl (talk) 21:40, 14 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Alibey (talk) 07:38, 16 May 2017 (UTC)[1][reply]
Isarra ༆ 17:13, 16 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Misaochan (talk) 17:15, 16 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Jsamwrites (talk) 20:29, 16 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Jmorgan (WMF) (talk) 22:17, 16 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
MtDu (talk) 00:09, 17 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Yug (talk) 06:03, 17 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
— 0x010C ^~talk~ 14:28, 17 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Dario (WMF) (talk) 17:33, 17 May 2017 (UTC) (should anyone cancel...)[reply]
Petrb (talk) 16:21, 18 May 2017 (UTC) (in case there is a space for me)[reply]
Tshrinivasan (talk) 18:59, 18 May 2017 (UTC) (if there is a space for me)[reply]
RashiqAhmad (should anyone cancel)
Daniel Kinzler (WMDE) (talk)
אבנר (talk) 19:18, 19 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Shavtay (talk) 04:56, 21 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
1Veertje (talk) 09:48, 21 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
VColeman
Mhutti1 (talk) 10:55, 21 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Erik bernhardson

Vienna Open Data MeetUp & Open Data Drinks

Metalab

Thursday 18 May 2017, 17-21 – at MetaLab

The 11th Vienna Open Data MeetUp at Vienna's hack space MetaLab dedicates this evening to the Wikiverse. There will also be an opportunity to take a tour through MetaLab. The MeetUp will be held in English. No extra registration required.

Program:

Philip Kopetzky (Wikimedia Austria): Welcome to the Wikiverse!
Jean-Frédéric Berthelot (Wikimedia France/Austria): The Wonderful World of Wikidata
Daniel Mietchen (University of Virginia) and Stefan Kasberger (ContentMine, Open Knowledge Austria): Text Data Mining of Pandemics (Zika) with Open Access Literature and Wikidata
Lightning Talks: 5 min max.
starting at 19: Open Data Drinks

MetaLab on OpenStreetMap

Address: Rathausstraße 6, 1010 Wien
How to get there: Take the U3 underground line (direction Ottakring) from Enkplatz underground station to Volkstheater underground station . From there it's a 15 mins walk. It is also possible to change to tramway line 2 (rear exit of the Volkstheater station, comming from Simmering/Enkplatz) in the direction of Ottakringer Straße and to exit the tram at the Rathaus station which is directly in front of Metalab.

Fantastic MediaWikis and How to Maintain Them

Friday 19 May 2017, 11.30-18 – in Room Powidl

Fantastic MediaWikis program

MediaWiki logo

This one-day conference track called "Fantastic Mediawikis and How to Maintain Them" is designed for people who work with the open source software MediaWiki in their organization, company or business. The conference track is curated by the MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group .

Read the full program of "Fantastic MediaWikis and How to Maintain Them".

Hackathon participants are invited to join the track whenever they want, spontaneously drop by for one hour or stay for the whole day, just like in any other session of the hackathon.

Humanities social sciences and wikis

Friday 19 May 2017, 14.00-15.00 in Room Wiaschtl

An informal meeting about wikis, for everybody who is interested in the humanities, social sciences and related topics. Do you study how wikis work? Do you support a wiki and want to talk about topics that are not exactly covered by computer science? Have you thought about a multidisciplinary approach in your research? Welcome to this meeting! Contact person is Ziko.

Wikidata documentation sprint

Wikidata documentation sprint program

The documentation sprint is a session that will take place during the 3 days of the hackathon. Its main goal is to improve user-documentation about Wikidata and Wikibase.

Anyone is welcome to join at any moment during the event, join a team or not, work on one of the suggested topics or not.

We will build a list of tasks with the community, so participants can work alone or in teams. During the sprint, we will also organize short workshops about useful tools (e.g. translation tools, illustration). Organizers will provide advices to help participants to build a good documentation. Non-tech people welcome. People will be able to attend remotely.

Phabricator task: Wikidata documentation sprint
Our 3 focus points:
Project runners: Jens Ohlig (WMDE), Léa Lacroix (WMDE)

The Sweet Taste of Austria

apple strudel

Saturday 20 May 2017, 16-17 – in the Atrium

by prazlab

Austrian traditional recipes derive from different cuisines of the cultures that formed the historical Austro-Hungarian Empire . Not only famous for the Schnitzel , the Viennese cuisine is characterized by its "sweet tooth". Austrian desserts like the Sachertorte , the apple strudel , and the Linzertorte are well known internationally. According to this culinary tradition sweet dishes are not destined to be only enjoyed at the end of the meal, they can be served as a main dish.

In a feast of typical Austrian sweet dishes, prazlab collective prepared for you a buffet with the best-known cakes: Sachertorte, apple strudel, Linzertorte, Marmorgugelhupf (marble bundt cake), Esterházy torte and Streuselkuchen . The ingredients of the original recipes are mapped according to the statistical data about the Wikipedia entry of the cake. This update adds to the taste its metadata: the date of creation of the article, the number of edits and the amount of visitors of the page.

About the prazlab art collective: Since 2012 Veronika and Vesela have been working together on multisensorial experiences, creating edible interfaces, artistic visualizations and food data tastifications. Their works are based on the most universal language of food, using cooking techniques and focusing on the act of eating.

Group photo

Saturday May 20, 2017 - 17-17.30 – Outdoors, in case of rain in the Atrium

Join us for the Wikimedia Hackathon group photo if you like. If the weather is favorable, we go outside.

Breton dance

Friday 19 May 2017, 20-21 – in Room Powidl

Léa will introduce you to the secrets of la danse bretonne .

Karaoke

Friday 19 May 2017, 20-23 – in Café Wien

Come sing with us! :-)

Hackathon Party

Arena Wien

Saturday 20 May 2017, starting at 21 – in Arena Wien

For Saturday night, we’d like to take you out to party! We’ve booked a venue exclusively for Hackathon attendees in one of Vienna’s nicest event locations, the Arena Wien , which is conveniently close to the hackathon venue. We’ll buy you a drink and book two DJs, so you can hit the dancefloor, socialize at the bar, or just hang out in the spacious outdoor area and enjoy some of Vienna’s best subculture locations.

DJs

eugene

as well as playing some butt-shaking funky beats, dj eugene will take us on a musical journey, telling stories with some worldwide sounds and ideas

shroombab

shroombab makes nasty breakbeat & electronic music with a message: her main topics are inspired by net politics - the end of privacy and the increase of mass surveillance

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Arena Wien on OpenStreetMap

Address: Baumgasse 80, 1030 Wien
How to get there: It’s a 20 mins walk or take the U3 underground line (direction Ottakring) from Enkplatz underground station to Erdberg underground station . The Vienna underground runs all night long on Saturdays.

Showcase & Closing

Sunday 21 May 2017, 15.30-17 – in Room Heuriger

Time to say good-bye or "Sag zum Abschied leise Servus" as we say/sing in Vienna ...

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Showcase task

Mentoring program

Mentoring Program

For this year’s Hackathon we will be implementing a mentoring program for newcomers to our movement. The mentoring program is a new approach that we are trying out for the first time, where we were looking for Wikimedians who will be at the hackathon exclusively as mentors. They will come up with newcomer-friendly projects and ideas and, during the whole weekend, work with groups of about two to six newcomers, to help them with the whole onboarding process, and make their way into the great Wikimedia tech community as easy and as much fun as possible. The focus is to welcome more newcomers into the community, by introducing them to the different aspects of working with MediaWiki, and help them achieve their own first steps during the hackathon weekend. Additionally, we want to create a welcoming social atmosphere, so we can further diversity and growth in our community.

Contact: hackathon wikimedia.at

This e-mail address can be used for all inquiries or questions regarding the event.