San Francisco Hackathon January 2012

Event Contact: Mail: sumanah at wikimedia dot org Thanks for your great interviews with Victor and Matthew! » Victor » Matthew The Wikimedia Foundation is collecting stories from Wikipedia programmers, designers, users, editors and donors from around the world to better represent who Wikipedia is. Telling your story makes Wikipedia better. Meet the community. » Sumana "If you're lost, I'll help you find help and a neat project." » Yuvi "I love writing code and I can help you get started. Everyone in the MediaWiki community is super friendly. Including me!" » Maarten "I don't code to code, I write code to get stuff done." » Brandon "I am more metal than you." Want to share your story here? Talk to us! Links to info to get you started. Tutorial reference for web API Web API documentation Web API client libraries Tutorial reference for mobile session Latest Android SDK (r16) Wikipedia Android app source code - git repo to fork or clone JavaScript, user scripts, and Gadgets intro Tutorial reference for Gadgets. How to become a MediaWiki hacker Developer Hub Mobile Projects page

A big thank you to everyone for an amazing hackathon! January 20-22, 2012; we brought together Wikipedia's senior coders with new developers to build applications running in Wikipedia itself, on mobile devices, or based on Wikipedia's content and data. Summary blog entry. See the fantastic projects and more photos and videos   At the Hackathon   Erik talks about The Day We Turned Off Wikipedia   This is a free event put on by the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that runs Wikipedia. You'll get a brief overview of all the key technologies you need, and then you'll have a weekend to build something amazing and make it open source. At the end, show it off and take the next step to get it running on our servers. Join us Friday night for drinks and conversations, and get ready for a weekend of coding. Food and drinks provided.   Topics for the Hackathon. We'll introduce you to the following: The MediaWiki web API and how to use it (introducing the query sandbox). Tutorial reference. Tutorials: Saturday, 10:20 and 11:30 in the large conference room. Gadget kitchen -- how to whip up a gadget to do what you want with Wikipedia. Tutorial reference. Tutorials: Saturday, 10:20 in the small conference room and 11:30 in the main space. Building Wikipedia Mobile apps and features. Tutorial reference. Tutorials: Saturday, 10:20 in the main space and 11:30 in the small conference room. Tutorials will be recorded and linked here. We're looking for projects in the following themes: Read: Anything that improves the reader experience, by presenting Wikipedia content in novel ways; Contribute: New ways to contribute content, e.g. micro-contribution apps on mobile devices; Analyze: Come up with novel visualizations, reports, and analysis that leverages openly available content and data. But we're very open to your ideas as well; make a pitch at the event! Wikimedia organizes hackathons all year, around the world. Previous hackathon events were held in 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. SF attendees will include: Erik Moeller, Foundation VP of Engineering Tomasz Finc, Foundation Director of Mobile Sumana Harihareswara, Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator Brandon Harris, Foundation Senior Designer Karen Rustad of OpenHatch Derk-Jan Hartman, MediaWiki & VLC expert Rusty Burchfield, entrepreneur and MediaWiki developer Daniel Kinzler ⇌, longtime MediaWiki developer and semantic web expert Lee Worden, interested in API and extension programming Sarah Nahm, freelance designer, interested in usability and visualizations brion, Foundation Senior Software Architect Roan Kattouw, Foundation developer, MediaWiki web API expert Doug Mahugh, Microsoft Rob Lanphier, Foundation Director of Platform Engineering Leslie Carr, Operations Engineer at WMF, Network and Puppet focused Phil Chang, Foundation Product Manager, Mobile

» January 20: Introductions and Drinks » January 21: Overviews and Hacking » January 22: Hacking and Showcase See you soon! Read our friendly space policy Venue pariSoma is a coworking and hacking space in downtown San Francisco, California USA. pariSoma Parisoma is wheelchair accessible from a side door (that might be locked unless especially opened for you) and the first floor is flat and accessible with wide corridors between tables. Schedule Friday JAN 20 1800 – 1830 Registration 1830 – 1915 Introductions 1915 – 2000 Project pitches 2000 – 2130 Conversation & drinks Saturday JAN 21 1000 – 1330 Basics overviews (MediaWiki, web API, mobile, and JS/gadgets) 1330 – 1430 Lunch at pariSoma 1430 Labs & Toolserver talk (big room) day & night Hacking 1830 – 2000 Meet the Foundation mixer at Don Ramon's 2000 – 2100 Dinner at pariSoma Sunday JAN 22 1000 – 1300 Hacking 1300 – 1430 Lunch at pariSoma 1430 – 1515 Showcase 1515 – 1600 Hacking 1600 – 1615 Awards & photos The schedule is mostly set but might shift. More Connections Hashtag #wpsfhack IRC #mediawiki on FreeNode More information Foundation: Visiting San Francisco Information may be updated as the event date approaches.