Amsterdam Hackathon 2013/Topics

This page is to gather possible topics for the Amsterdam Hackathon 2013. The hackathon is a open-structured. If there's something you intend to work on, please add to the list or chime in your support on a particular topic. Based on the suggested topics we can all decide what to work on and define goals for the Hackathon.

Tutorials/Workshops
Include if you're volunteering to give one or would like to follow one

Mediawiki

 * MediaWiki - Of course
 * ContentHandler -- new in MW 1.21
 * MediaWiki API
 * 2.0 RFC / cleanup RFC
 * Wikidata API RFC.
 * Lua/Scribunto scripting
 * A security training
 * Writing "acceptance test" criteria for use in automated QA
 * Editor Engamgent tools like Echo, Flow
 * Skinning system / Vector cleanup & migration to core / Outdated documentation
 * Design:
 * Designs for mobile versions of existing projects.
 * Usability testing for Wikimedia projects.
 * Contribute components to Agora
 * Structured data push support for recent changes
 * Maps/geocoding
 * Mobile web performance
 * WMF platform/ops joint tasks e.g.: Bug 40025 - unfortunately needs specific permissions
 * Translate extension
 * I18n: How to make interface messages dependent on wiki configuration or user-created content translatable via Translate extension. (??)

VisualEditor

 * Integration with MediaWiki, skins
 * Integration with non-MediaWiki platforms
 * Visual template editing for fun and profit
 * Writing plugins for new features
 * Non-Wikipedia needs from VisualEditor
 * Parsoid
 * Future of wikitext in MediaWiki

Wikidata

 * Wikidata

Labs/Tools

 * Wikimedia Labs - current status / database replication / future etc.
 * Toolserver and tool labs
 * Workshop moving from Toolserver to tool labs, accompanied by "on-the-fly" improvements to the documentation
 * Please help with Toolserver/List of Tools
 * Pywikipedia
 * Integrate dictionaries for translation tools, Wikisource
 * Wiktionary tools
 * Advanced word search (such as these).

Promotion/Interaction

 * MediaWiki promotion
 * Outreach to IT schools
 * Country and regional developer conferences
 * MediaWiki Camp
 * Promote MediaWiki as free alternative for corporations, small and medium companies
 * Promotion and outreach: how to engage better with the Wikimedia community and other groups out there.
 * WMF devs vs. communities
 * IRC bots in developer channels (we've wanted to move "spamming" bots out of #mediawiki for a long time, maybe it's finally a time to sit down together and sort this out) / eventually discuss some improvements regarding IRC
 * Documentation structure

GLAM/WLM

 * Some kind of Wiki Loves Monuments sprint that includes photo upload from mobile devices
 * Wiki Loves Public Art tooling
 * Wiki Loves Monuments tooling
 * GLAMwiki toolset project

Uncategorized

 * Render (http://render-project.eu/tag/wikimedia/ ?)
 * Cosyne: Multilingual Content Synchronization with Wikis
 * Kiwix