Berlin Hackathon 2012

Event Contacts berlinhack2012wikimedia.org Meet the community. » Sumana "If you're lost, I'll help you find help and a neat project." » Rachel "Wiki forever!" » Siebrand "You have a right to a proper user interface in your native tongue." Want to share your story here? Talk to us! Links to info to get you started. How to become a MediaWiki hacker Wikidata ("Commons for data") Developer hub ResourceLoader Lua scripting Wikimedia Labs

Join the Wikimedia development community in Berlin. All Wikimedia community developers and sysadmins are invited to Berlin Hackathon 2012 to collaborate and share ideas.   Hacking in Berlin 2011 Berlin Hackathon MediaWiki & extensions developers MediaWiki systems administrators Toolserver users Gadgets makers Bots maintainers Template writers Users of Wikimedia bigdata You'll work on whatever project excites you. And you'll have opportunities to learn about and hack on: ResourceLoader 2 and the Gadgets rewrite Lua scripting (for templates) Wikimedia Germany's Wikidata initiative and other structured data projects   Hackathon schedule Friday JUNE 1 1700 - 1800 Registration 1800 - 1820 Kickoff & 30-second project intros 1700 - ??00 General hacking Saturday JUNE 2 1000 - 1300 Hacking in main room. Trainings in side rooms (trainings happen twice today; choose 2 to attend): Using Git and Gerrit (Patrick Reilly) Beginning Lua scripting and adapting templates to Lua (Tim Starling) Optimizing your code's MySQL performance (Roan Kattouw) 1300 - 1400 Lunch 1400 - ??00 Hacking Short afternoon presentation by Wikidata team in a separate room Sunday JUNE 3 1000 - 1300 Hacking in main room, trainings in side rooms (trainings happen twice; choose 2 to attend): Writing secure code and reviewing code for security (Tim Starling) Adapting your Gadget to ResourceLoader and Gadgets 2.0 (Timo Tijhof & Roan Kattouw) Repeat of most-wanted training from Saturday 1300 - 1400 Lunch 1400 - 1600 Hacking 1600 - 1700 Presentations   Goals and topics for the Hackathon. This is the premier event for the MediaWiki and Wikimedia technical community. We'll be hacking, designing, and socialising. Our goals for the event are to bring 100-150 people together, with lots of people who have not attended such events before. User scripts, gadgets, API use, Toolserver, Wikimedia Labs, mobile, structured data, templates -- if you are into any of these things, we want you to come! Goals: More outreach to variety of people - aim for 120-130 participants (judging that ~100 came last year) Get Lua training for anyone who wants it Inform people about ResourceLoader 2 & new Gadgets support, train JS authors Get Labs or Toolserver accounts for anyone who wants them Get at least 5 gadgets/tools/templates/bots developers/authors to get into larger Wikimedia community, stay in it 3 months after event Facilitate chapter tech community Keep last year's quality of experience while upping attendance Better social events that help build relationships, facilitate mingling. Wikimedia organizes hackathons all year, around the world. Previous hackathon events were held in Pune, India Feb 10-12, 2012,San Francisco, USA Jan 20-22, 2012, Mumbai, India Nov 19&20, 2011, Brighton, UK Nov 18-20, 2011, NOLA, USA Oct 14-16, 2011, Berlin, Germany May 13-15, 2011, Amsterdam, Netherlands Jan 14, 2011, Washington DC, USA Oct 22–24, 2010. Berlin attendees will include: Jeroen De Dauw - structured data (WikiData & SMW) Aude Wikinaut - discussing extensions OpenID, RSS, WikiArticleFeeds, EtherpadLite, AJAXPoll, open e-mail notification issues and more SVG - discussing about wiki farms (perhaps) Judytuna - coming from WPSFHack! Bináris (pywikipediabot developer) — listening. Bináristalk 09:57, 14 February 2012 (UTC) TheDJ Multichill Krinkle Smihael (most likely; interface tweaks for easier editing of Wikisource) Adam Wight Read/Write Offline OrenBochman Kolossos (Maps/OpenStreetMap) DanielRenfro (going to try to make it...pretty busy in June) Saper I'd like to refactor schema handling for various databases Max Semenik (talk) WikiData, WMF stuff Siebrand — General i18n and L10n related meddling. Sridhar Gutam Petr Bena Daniel Mietchen (WiR/OS), Open Access Media Importer TParis - Unblock Ticket Request System, and a botclasses.php based bot on English Wikipedia Dereckson - WikiData, Wikipedia articles translation helper tool esby Arkanosis Roan Kattouw Toni Hermoso Ankur anand Patricio Molina xqt pywikibot developer Husky (talk) 21:19, 22 April 2012 (UTC) - GLAM hacker. RajeshPandey (talk) 04:52, 23 April 2012 (UTC) Eran (talk) 10:50, 26 April 2012 (UTC) Dario Taraborelli SPQRobin (talk) 22:32, 16 May 2012 (UTC) Waldir (talk) 17:01, 18 May 2012 (UTC) -- DQ (ʞlɐʇ) 04:01, 19 May 2012 (UTC) Anomie (talk)

Berlin 2012 » June 1: Introductions and Hacking » June 2: Hacking and Tutorials » June 3: Hacking and Presentations Registration is full If you've already registered, please watch your email & this page for updates! If you haven't, sorry, but please come to one of our other events in the future. Putting your name in the list on this wiki page does NOT register you for the event! But if you want to signal to other people that you're coming, go ahead. You might also enjoy using the unofficial Lanyrd service to connect with other attendees. WikiData/Hackathon Venue Station-berlin - Hall 6 Luckenwalder Straße 4, D-10963 Berlin Read our friendly space policy. More Connections Hashtag #wmdevdays IRC #mediawiki on FreeNode Twitterwall wmdevdays More information User:Sumanah for event content. berlinhack2012wikimedia.org for logistics. Program coordination: Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah AT wikimedia.org> Logistics: Nicole Ebber <nicole.ebber AT wikimedia.de>