Wikimedia Discovery/Retrospective-Hackathon-2015-06-12

Hackathon (Lyon)
Dan:
 * Search Roundtable
 * Our timeslot competed with a NASA talk and something else popular
 * Low attendance, but Damon was there. Good conversation.
 * At the hackathon in general
 * Talked more about WDQS, maps
 * Talked with Lydia about WD generally, as well as WDQS
 * Greg had insights
 * People were curious about the "Discovery" part
 * Good first run as a team to talk collectively.

Moiz: Wes: Yuri: Erik:
 * Met w/people like Nemo, talked about front page redesign
 * Lots of notes. Nemo met Wes.
 * Jon Katz was running user research sessions
 * One user said he never searches in wp--didn't know that feature even existed
 * Attended a design session
 * We made our presence felt
 * Met with several college students
 * Distributed James's API docs
 * Wes added cool map ideas to Dan's document
 * David was also there. Nice to meet and interact with him.
 * Graph Extension presentation went very well; lots of feedback
 * German wiki now has created good templates that were ported to other langs
 * e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:GraphChart
 * Someone wanted to create maps with graph ext for wikivoyage
 * Worked with pywikibot community on minimalistic API specification
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Minimalistic_MW_API_Client_Lib_Specification
 * Lots of maps conversations
 * Worked with 2 people who came to hackathon specifically to work on brining maps to Wikipedia
 * Started putting together list of all suggestions on mw.o discovery maps page
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap
 * Hackathon closing ceremony (2 min per person) was excellent. Informative.
 * Spent most of time with David, learning elastic search internals

David:
 * Spent most of time learning from Erik
 * Met Wes, Dan, Yuri and Giuseppe. Very nice to meet everyone.

Wikimania (Mexico City)

 * We have a session scheduled
 * This Monday's presentation is prep for that one
 * We should have a better presentation ready for wikimania than we did for the hackathon

Moiz: Wes: Nik: Tomasz:
 * Wikimania is bigger
 * Venues have a bit impact on how the events turn out
 * We should be extra vigilant about what we will do, who will be there (on wikimania wiki)
 * "50 shades of wiki" presentation (about reusing content)
 * Over next couple weeks, identify stuff we can demo
 * Planning to attend education-related talks; how to use students in testing
 * Whoever of us is in Mexico City should at least have a dinner together
 * Wikimania is exhausting, but worth it
 * Maybe try to engage with outsiders more than people you normally work with (e.g. wmde)
 * Last year heard lots of good ideas, several of which were implemented that afternoon
 * People went away happy
 * When you get active editors in a room, they will ask questions (some random)
 * Make it clear what your role/interests are, and people will come to you
 * This is an opportunity to do more together as a team