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Wikimedia Hackathon 2018/Prehackathon Montpellier

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The pre-hackathon in Montpellier will take place the 14th and 15th of April 2018 in Montpellier, France. It is a warm up event linked to Wikimedia Hackathon 2018 and it will be focused on gadgets maintenance and updating, especially for the French Wikipedia.

PREHACKATHON IN MONTPELLIER | 14-15 April 2018 | Montpellier, France
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Scope

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During the Wikiconvention francophone 2017, there was an open discussion about the state of technical things on the projects, especially the French Wikipedia. We observed that the gadgets [in the French Wikipedia at least] are hardly maintained over time and a lot of gadgets are written in old-style JavaScript, likely to break in case of deprecation of some part of libraries and possibly with security concerns.

The following tasks are within the scope of the event (non-comprehensive list):

  • Update or rewrite legacy gadgets to state-of-the-art JavaScript
  • Update the technical documentation and ensure it is consistent everywhere (or centralize it when possible)
  • Create a git repository that non-sysop developers can use to push updates to gadgets, etc. (Phab:T179550)
  • Maybe a training session for outsider JS devs who might want to create or maintain Wikipedia gagdets
  • Anything related to the creation of a Central Gadget Taskforce (phab:T159334)

Venue

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Atelier des pigistes, 171 rue frimaire 34000 Montpellier. (map)

  • Tram 3/1/4 arrêt Rives du Lez ou 1/3 Port Marianne

Accommodation

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Program

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Program outline

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Friday 13th

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Friday is the travel day. Come and join us around some drinks in the evening at the Barbote (1 Rue des deux Ponts, 34000 Montpellier) from 19h.

Saturday 14th

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Time Agenda
09:30 Doors open
10:00 Formal presentation of the prehackathon
10:30 Pitch of proposals, projects and ideas
11:00 "JavaScript for Mediawiki" tutorial by 0x010C
13:00 Lunch
14:00 HACKING TIME
20:00 1st Wrap up so far

Sunday 15th

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Time Agenda
9:30 AM state of the question so far
10:00 HACKING TIME
13:00 Lunch
14:00 HACKING TIME
16:30 Wrap up
17:00 Fin. Everybody goes home ;)

Preparing for the pre-hackathon

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  • Download and install Git (optional recommendation: also install the GitHub Desktop client, this is especially recommended for people who are relatively new to Git)


Tentative plans for hackathon

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  • We will sent a message to confirmed attendees and we will write here a program proposal some days before the event. This will be just a proposal, some guidelines, not mandatory at all.

Attending

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The room allows ~15 people attending.

Interested

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  1. Sylvain WMFr (talk) 18:05, 10 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    Trizek/Trizek (talk) 18:37, 10 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Léna (talk) 18:59, 10 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    Tpt (talk) 20:02, 10 January 2018 (UTC) Not available this week-end.[reply]
  3. Framawiki (talk) 19:57, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  4. — 0x010C ~talk~ 19:58, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  5. — Arkanosis ✉ 20:28, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Oodna (talk) 20:31, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Ltrlg, 08:32, 19 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Mohamedudhuman05, 10:54, 26 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    --ÀlexHinojo (talk) 14:24, 23 January 2018 (UTC) (link with Barcelona event)[reply]
    DCausse (WMF) (talk) 08:48, 2 February 2018 (UTC) unexpected family obligations[reply]
    Culex (talk) 13:47, 6 February 2018 (UTC) (contre-temps)  [reply]
  9. Sukkoria (talk) 10:21, 24 February 2018 (UTC) (not sure yet)[reply]
  10.  --Toniher (talk) 20:32, 15 March 2018 (UTC) (attending in lieu of Àlex, link with Barcelona event)[reply]
  11. Drongou (talk) 14:26, 20 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  12. Mah3110 (talk) 08:58, 22 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  13. DePlusJean (talk) 08:28, 10 April 2018 (UTC) (initiation and photographing the events  )[reply]

Registration

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Conditions

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This event will follow the Friendly space policy for Wikimedia Foundation events, attendees must read and follow our Code of Conduct.


Get in touch

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Contact: hackathon wikimedia.fr

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

If you want to help with the preparation of the event, please join the mailing list!

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