Wikimedia Hackathon 2018/Prehackathon Olot



PREHACKATHON IN OLOT | 2 – 4 Feb 2018 | Olot, Catalonia The pre-hackathon in Olot will take place between 2 and 4 Feb 2018 in Olot, Catalonia, at Faber Residency (web). It will be focused on multilingualism, one of the key aspects of the whole Wikimedia movement.

Scope
One of the main tracks of the Wikimedia Hackathon 2018 that will take place in Barcelona is multilingualism. As said at 2016's Wikimedia Foundation Annual Report, Most Wikipedia articles are in a language other than English. This is why we want to focus this Olot event on it. Developers, humanists and academics are welcome to attend. We want to create a save and calm space where attendees can talk and discuss about the potentials and challenges of multilingualism in Wikimedia projects, in order to create some interesting wishlists for the Barcelona Hackathon and to start drafting, sorting and developing some prototipes. Two of our own wish lists topics are Non latin alphabets and Wikipedia's content translator tool, but attendees are more than welcome to add their own proposals. We are looking for a variety of profiles, so we can get the best out of this diversity.

Olot
Olot (Catalan pronunciation: [uˈɫɔt]) is known for its natural landscape, including four volcanoes scattered around the city center. The municipality is part of the Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park. Olot is also well-known for its cultural activity, with historical art movements like Olot school or imaginary schools, which contributed to the location in the city of a big Design and Arts & Crafts school. It's 90' away from Barcelona city center and there is public transportation available.

Faber Residency
Faber, the Arts, Sciences and Humanities Residency of Catalonia in Olot is a place for writers, translators, artists of diverse disciplines, scholars and scientists to stay together and to work on their personal projects for a time in the context of a thematic stay. Faber organizes several thematic stays during the year. Each one is made up by a few professionals who come to work on their professional projects related to the subject of the period. The Residency is a contemporary space which acts out of the interests of the hosting society. It collects ideas, opinion trends and worries of contemporary world. Amical Wikimedia has been partnering with Faber since 2016 and we are happy to collaborate with them again organising this prehackathon.

Prehackathon program
Etherpad here, or IRC on freenode in #wmhack.

Friday 2nd

 * 10 am -12 noon: Introductory session - welcoming and getting to know each other.

Saturday 3d

 * Work on chosen task

Sunday 4th

 * Work on chosen task
 * 16h : Demo time!

Preparing for the pre-hackathon

 * Download and install Git (optional recommendation: also install the GitHub Desktop client, this is especially recommended for people who are relatively new to Git)

Attending
Those receiving a scholarship will be paid a hotel room in same building during the event. The topic of the pre-hackathon will be the linguistics, specifically related to improvement of the multilinguals feature.
 * Do you want to participate? Contact: hackathon@undefinedwikimedia.cat Amical Wikimedia is the host of the event and has provided several scholarships for those who will attend. If you are planning to attend the hackathon as well, you will need to register separately for that. See here.
 * --ÀlexHinojo (talk) 05:31, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
 * --Toniher (talk) 18:44, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Outcomes
Outcomes of the work during the prehackathon and the following hackathon work:

Related research

 * Linguistic Neighbourhoods What explains common co-editing interests between language communities on Wikipedia?
 * feel free to add more useful links

Get in touch
Contact: hackathon@undefinedwikimedia.cat

This e-mail address can be used for all inquiries or questions regarding the event.