Wikimedia Hackathon 2018/Warm-up event Orlandai



PREHACKATHON/WARM UP IN BARCELONA | 10 March 2018 | Barcelona, Catalonia The pre-hackathon in Casa Orlandai will take place on 10 March, 2018 in Barcelona, Casa Orlandai (web). It is a warm up event linked to Wikimedia Hackathon 2018 and it will be focused on our local community, one of the key aspects of the whole Wikimedia movement. It's an event organized by Amical Wikimedia and Wikimedia Foundation, in collaboration with Casa Orlandai.

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 safe 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. Our goals are preparing tasks for the May hackathon and deepening into the linguistic issue, trying to determine which are the technical challenges on Wikimedia in order to reach real multilingualism.

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

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)
 * Think about topics you may like to work with

Tentative plans for hackathon

 * We will sent a message to confirmed attendees and we will write here a program proposal some days before the event. This will be just a proposal, some guidelines, not mandatory at all.


 * some topics to think about (if you want to, this is just a pre-wish-list)
 * Lexeme
 * Interwikis linking to sections?
 * How can we improve life of non latin alphabets on Wikipedia?
 * What if there is no keyboard on that language? (aka: igbo experience)
 * What happens when there is no browser in that language, how we can better "outreach a language version" > eg. gaelics
 * Can ORES integrate fixing typo proposals?
 * How to better interact between Apertium & Content translation
 * Have your ideas? Paste them here or on Etherpad!

Attending
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 if you need a travel scolarships to attend. If you are planning to attend the hackathon as well, you will need to register separately for that. See here.

Confirmed Attendees

 * please send us an email if you want to attend
 * please send us an email if you want to attend
 * please send us an email if you want to attend
 * please send us an email if you want to attend

Language

 * This event will be run in CATALAN language. Everybody is welcome, btw. If you are not a Catalan language speaker, we will do our best to communicate with you.

Coordinates
If you want to come by private car: OSM. There is free parking at the door of the building.

Conditions
This event will follow the Friendly space policy for Wikimedia Foundation events, attendees must read and follow our Code of Conduct.

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? (PDF)
 * 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.