Wikimedia Hackathon 2023/Program

The Hackathon is participant-driven and lives from the active participation of its attendees. Below you will find some information on how to contribute to the program as an attendee.

19–21 May 2023 | Athens, Greece

Overview

Program

Creating a Friendly Space

The Universal Code of Conduct, Code of Conduct for Wikimedia's Technical Spaces and Friendly Space Policy will be in effect throughout the event, on all platforms, discussion channels, and at satellite events.

Local communities are also welcome to organize pre-hackathon events, watch-parties or meetups in their region. More information about organization and funding is available on the satellite events page.

Schedule

Thursday, May 18th

Participants arrive in Athens. Participants can self-organize, plan small group dinners, have social time, solo time, etc.

Friday, May 19th: Hackathon starts


	Main Hacking Space (MachineWorks)	Warehouse Workshop Room (up to 40 participants)	MachineWorks Workshop Room (up to 40 participants)
08:30–09:30	Registration
09:30–11:00	Opening slides Hackathon opening (all participants to attend this session) Contact: Léa Lacroix Session coordinator: Elwin Huaman, EAMedina AV operator: KCVelaga_WMF Notes		Rooms closed
11:00–11:30	Hacking space		An introduction to the Wikibase REST API Contact: @Ollie.Shotton_WMDE & @Muhammad_Yasser_Jazirahly_WMDE Session coordinator: @Cstone AV operator: Notes
11:30–12:30	Hacking space	Overview of technical areas & projects in Wikimedia's technical ecosystem Contact: @Gopa Vasanth Session coordinator: @Nivas AV operator: Notes	Get setup with MediaWiki and build a skin Contact: @Jdlrobson Session coordinator: @Cstone AV operator: @Kizule Notes
12:30–14:00	Lunch
	Main Hacking Space (MachineWorks)	Warehouse Workshop Room (up to 40 participants)	MachineWorks Workshop Room (up to 40 participants)
14:00–14:30	Hacking space		Cool new things in MediaWiki code Contact: @Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE Session coordinator: @Kizule AV operator: Notes
14:30–15:00		State of GitLab CI and migration party Contact: @Jelto Session coordinator: @Cstone AV operator: @Kizule Notes	An introduction to Codex: the design system for Wikimedia Contact: @Catrope and @bmartinezcalvo Session coordinator: @NicoleLBee AV operator: Notes
		Warehouse Workshop Room (up to 40 participants)	MachineWorks Workshop Room (up to 40 participants)
15:00–16:00		Using Pixel tool for visual regression Contact: Elena Tonkovidova Session coordinator: Rummana Yasmeen AV operator: Notes	WikiGPT - Natural Language search results based on Wikipedia knowledge and ChatGPT Contact: isarantopoulos Session coordinator: Effie Mouzeli AV operator: Francesco Negri Notes
16:00–17:00			Documentation for Wikibase Cloud Contact: Daniel Mietchen Session coordinator: Elwin Huaman AV operator: Francesco Negri Mode: Online Session Notes
17:00–18:00	Nap or solo time for some, social time for others
18:00–19:30	Dinner
19:30-00:00	Hacking space

Saturday, May 20th: Hacking all day!


	Main Hacking Space (MachineWorks)	Warehouse Workshop Room (up to 40 participants)	MachineWorks Workshop Room (up to 40 participants)
09:30–10:00	Announcements on Hackathon-related venues (Telegram, IRC, Matrix, etc.)
10:00–10:30	Hacking space	Schemas for medical entities Contact: Daniel Mietchen Session coordinator: @Cstone AV operator: @Kizule Mode: Online Session Notes	IP Masking Contact: NKohli (WMF) Session coordinator: @isaac AV operator: Notes
10:30–11:30		Discovering VideoCutTool: Learn, Create, and Provide Feedback. Contact: @Gopa Vasanth Session coordinator: @Kizule AV operator: Notes	LLMs, ChatGPT, machine learning tools, etc Contact: @Kostajh Session coordinator: @MGerlach AV operator: @Diegodlh Notes
11:30–12:30			What i've learned from being a Wikimedia tool dev for nine years Contact: @Husky Session coordinator: @NicoleLBee AV operator: @TurakinWiki Notes
12:30–14:00	Lunch
13:45–14:00	Group Photo in front of the big, rusty, cylindrical construct at your right side after you leave the main hacking room
14:00–15:00	Hacking space	AutoWikiBrowser: An introduction workshop - T337094 Contact: Magioladitis and Reedy Session coordinator:MARKELLOS AV operator: Notes	Community configuration – letting communities take control by JSON configuration Contact: @Urbanecm Session coordinator: @Kizule AV operator: Notes
15:00–16:00		How to fix automatic citations in Wikipedia with Web2Cit Contact: Diegodlh & NidiaH Session coordinator: @isaac AV operator: Notes	What do tool maintainers want from Toolhub? Contact: BDavis (WMF) Session coordinator: @Quiddity AV operator: Notes
16:00–17:00		Using automated systems to recommend reviewers in the MediaWiki project Contact: Dreamy Jazz Session coordinator: @Cstone AV operator: Notes Should only need 25 mins for this session even though I selected an hour slot.	Past, Present and Future of Wikimedia Cloud Services (Toolforge and friends) Contact: aborrero Session coordinator: @Quiddity AV operator: Francesco Negri Notes
17:00–18:00	Nap or solo time for some, social time for others
18:00–19:30	Dinner
19:30-00:00	Hacking space

Sunday, May 21st: Hacking and Hackathon closing

	Main Hacking Space (MachineWorks)	Innovathens - 2 levels above ground (up to 40 participants)	Innovathens - 1 level above ground (up to 40 participants)
09:00–09:30	Announcements on Hackathon-related venues (Telegram, IRC, Matrix, etc.)
09:30–10:30	Hacking space	Toolforge Build Service beta preview Contact: @Slst2020 Session coordinator: @Marina AV operator: Francesco Negri Notes	Improve your technical writing Contact: @Kostajh Session coordinator:@Cstone AV operator: Notes
10:30–11:30			Session slides Best practices & ideas for implementing them for high-impact tools & their maintainers. Contact: @srishakatux, @KHernandez-WMF Session coordinator: @debt AV operator: Notes
10:30–11:30		Using Patch demo to test or demonstrate patches outside of your local dev environment (or without one) Contact: Matma Rex (Bartosz Dziewoński) Session coordinator: AV operator: Notes
11:30–12:30		Cool new things in PHP Contact: @Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE Session coordinator: @Marina AV operator: Notes Toolhub, Toolhunt, and the quest to improve tool discoverability Contact: @NicoleBee Session coordinator: @Marina AV operator: Notes	Session slides Self-hosting ML models on Cloud Services Contact: @Isaac @Slst2020 Session coordinator: @Novem Linguae AV operator: Notes
12:30–14:00	Lunch (new location: in the courtyard in front of the Innovathens building)
14:00–14:30	Hacking space	Rooms closed	Rooms closed
14:30–16:30	Hackathon Project Showcase & Closing (all participants to attend this session) Contact: siebrand Session coordinator: AV operator: Notes
17:00–21:00	Free dinner for all attendees at Brown Acropol rooftop

Social & side activities

If you are interested in exploring Athens or a social event in small groups with Wikimedians, you are welcome to propose, host, or participate in a self-organized activity.

Thursday, May 18th (social events)


Activity name	Activity description	Time	Place	Point of contact

Friday, May 19th (social events)


Activity name	Activity description	Time	Place	Point of contact
Accessible-to-All Hip Hop Party	A group of young people that use their channels to discuss disabilities and the challenges experienced by those with disabilities firsthand will be hosting the first accessible-to-all hip hop party/concert in Greece and invited top-notch greek artists to join them. Free admission.	18:00 - 23:00	Technopolis

Saturday, May 20th (social events)


Activity name	Activity description	Time	Place	Point of contact
Vassilikos "The Grand Duet" with Giorgios Triantafillou	Technopolis will celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Industrial Gas Museum with a concert. The Grand Duet is a musical project that conveys all the energy and passion. With Giorgos Triantafyllou accompanying him on guitars and keyboards, Vassilikos will use a computer to fill out the back track of all the instruments of a band. Vassilikos will present an unrepeatable musical experience that unites yesterday with today in a unique way.^{[citation needed]} Free admission.	Doors open at 19:00 Concert starts at 21:00	Technopolis (Industrial Gas Museum)
Chess Basics	You will learn the names of various pieces (from pawn to king), how to play with them and how valuable they are. You will learn how to set up the board, its coordinates (from a1 to h8) and chess notation (example: Bxd2+). You will learn openings, middlegames and endgames.	12:30–14:00 (During lunch.)	Technopolis. Look for a table with chess board(s) during lunch.	Željko Filipin

Sunday, May 21st (social events)


Activity name	Activity description	Time	Place	Point of contact
Pokémon Go community day	May 2023 Community Day: Fennekin	14:00–17:00	??	BDavis (WMF) (talk)
Dinner	Free farewell dinner for all attendees	17:00–21:00	Brown Acropol rooftop	Hackathon organizers

Propose sessions & workshops

Hackathon awesome agenda

Here are some tips:

Be prepared to run your session without a projector at a specific Hackathon table in a quiet corner of a big room or outside, if we can’t allocate a dedicated space for your session.
The focus should be less on beginner-level workshops, unlike in the previous Hackathons, as the event brings together individuals who have already contributed to technical aspects of the Wikimedia projects. However, a few newcomers from the local community might join us who would benefit from technical areas and overview sessions (e.g., Phabricator, Gerrit, etc.).
You are welcome to reach out to the organizers to seek help to prepare or get feedback on your presentation, or any training support you need a few weeks before the session. We will add a link to a slides template here soon.
We encourage you to propose sessions in a presentation, workshop, discussion, or any other format that suits your requirements. Also, feel free to host language or community-specific sessions or meetups.

Session template

You can copy/paste the template below or use this pre-populated project task template to propose a session in Phabricator.

* Title of session (the more detailed, the better!):
* Session description:
* Username for contact:
* Session duration (25 or 50 min):
* Session type (presentation, workshop, discussion, etc.):
* Language of session (English, Arabic, etc.):
* Prerequisites (some Python, etc.):
* Any other details to share?:
* Interested? Add your username below:

You can pitch your project during the opening ceremony and share outcomes in a final event showcase. Feel free to use the hackathon channels to promote your proposed sessions & projects and recruit potential attendees or collaborators.