Wikimedia Hackathon 2021/Schedule

The event will take place from Friday, May 21st, to Sunday, May 23th. The schedule will take in account the various time zones in which the participants are located.

"Logo for Wikimedia Hackathon"


The program consists in one main track of sessions, that participants can follow and comment, and that will be recorded, and several open rooms for informal discussions, workshops and other sessions, that will be interactive and not recorded. The entire program is powered by the participants and monitored by the coordination team. You can find more information on how to contribute.

Friday, May 21st

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Time (UTC/GMT) Main track (video) Hacking room 1 (Jitsi) Hacking room 2 (Jitsi) Other events
No event here Helpers coordination meeting

If you're willing to help at the hackathon, feel free to join! Please read this first

Opening and introduction

Coordination team (10min)

Replay: Youtube, Yewtube, Peertube

17:00 Watching the opening together

17:30 Newcomers Q&A

New at the hackathon? Here's the place to start!

facilitation: Joaquin & Neslihan

17:10 Visit of the online venue together

Let's discover the map of the hackathon!

No event here Finding co-maintainers for your tools

Joaquin Hernandez

Notes

facilitation: balloons

No event here Data challenge (details)

Ainali, Vigneron, Abbe98, Fuzheado

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No event here Open source tools for Wikimedia events

Pharos, Ladsgroup

Notes

facilitation: Zoran

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by Lucas Werkmeister on Twitch

Saturday, May 22nd

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Time (UTC/GMT) Main track (Youtube, Yewtube, Peertube) Hacking room 1 (Jitsi) Hacking room 2 (Jitsi) Other events
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Join for a few minutes to get your picture clicked! At the end of the hackathon, all pictures will be combined to create a collage. (another round takes place on Sunday)

facilitation: Pavithra

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No event here Newcomers Q&A

New at the hackathon? Here's the place to start!

facilitation: Pavithra

Visit of the online venue together

Let's discover the map of the hackathon!

11:00 Untangling MediaWiki - daniel (25min)

11:30 Wikibase, starting from scratch - lucamauri (25min)

facilitation: Neslihan

Ask anything about Phabricator

Andre Klapper (Q&A, 55min)

facilitation: Zoran

Lua modules training - tohaomg (55min)

facilitation: Neslihan

Languages Garden

Let's meet in the garden of the hackathon online venue to have discussions in various languages. Feel free to move around, meet other people and start a conversation :)

Converting an extension to the new hook system - daniel (55min)

facilitation: Neslihan

Let's share our Search challenges

WMF Search Platform Team (Q&A, 55 min)

facilitation: ...

Break Building a tool from scratch

Lucas Werkmeister (workshop, 55min)

facilitation: balloons

Managing Wikimedia Categories using Wikidata

csisc (presentation, 25min)

facilitation: ...

15:00 Where can I run this? An introduction to Wikimedia Cloud Services - Andrew (25min)

15:30 Intro to Toolhub for tool maintainers - bd808 (25min)

facilitation: Pavithra

RFC: Re-evaluate librsvg as SVG renderer on Wikimedia wikis

Johannes Kalliauer (discussion - 55 mins)

facilitation: ...

16:00 Intro to PAWS/Jupyter notebooks for Python beginners - Chico Venancio (25min)

16:30 Writing documentation as a community - Dan Shick (prerecorded)

facilitation: Pavithra

Accessibility: state of the art, what is already good, what can be improved

psychoslave (discussion, Q&A, 55min)

Telegram channel

Wikidata Live Querying - Lucas Werkmeister (55min)

Ideas / Notes

facilitation: Pavithra

Technical Documentation Q&A

Sarah Rodlund (Q&A, 55min)

facilitation: apaskulin

Etherpad notes

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Andre Klapper (Presentation, Q&A, 25min)

facilitation: Birgit

Languages Garden

Let's meet in the garden of the hackathon online venue to have discussions in various languages. Feel free to move around, meet other people and start a conversation :)

No event here Watching Eurovision together

It's this time of the year again! Let's hang out in the kitchen of the online venue (Jitsi link) and comment the grand finale of the famous song contest. (how to watch, participants and points)

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Sunday, May 23th

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Time (UTC/GMT) Hacking room 1 (Jitsi) Hacking room 2 (Jitsi) Other events
GSoC and Outreachy Interns Welcome Party

Join us in welcoming Wikimedia's newest outreach program participants!

facilitation: Pavithra

Dog walk / show your park 🌳

The link we use is https://meet.jit.si/berlinparks (or type "berlinparks" in the Jitsi app).

Unsourced P91 on Wikidata

les sans pages workshop (newbie friendly)

On going work during the week end here - dedicated telegram chan

Visit of the online venue together

Let's discover the map of the hackathon!

Wikimedia Cloud Services chat: What do you do with them? What can we improve?

Joaquin Hernandez (Discussion, 55min)

facilitation: Lucas Werkmeister

Conversation about ways to enabling more people to learn coding

Hogü-456 (Discussion, 55min)

facilitation: ...

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Technical development statistics (Git and Gerrit)

Andre Klapper (Presentation, 25min)

facilitation: Zoran

Closing & showcase

Everyone is welcome to present what they worked on during the hackathon.

The showcase will NOT be recorded. Instructions & registration: Wikimedia Hackathon 2021/Showcase

facilitation: Pavithra & Andre

Modeling the Future of Wikimedia APIs

sdkim (Discussion, 55min)

facilitation: apaskulin

Etherpad notes

Group Picture #2

Join for a few minutes to get your picture clicked! At the end of the hackathon, all pictures will be combined to create a collage. (another round takes place on Saturday)

facilitation: Pavithra

Piano concert 🎶

by Lucas Werkmeister on Twitch

Hacking the Movement Charter

Wmhack21 movement charter pad Pharos (Discussion, 55min)

facilitation: apaskulin