Zürich Hackathon 2014/Topics

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Galleries for topic pages
Create the concept of a gallery for any type of topic page (Article, User, Wiktionary, Wikivoyage) where a user can search and contribute images from commons.

Interested persons:

Production-like Vagrant
Minimize the differences between MediaWiki-Vagrant and production configuration. Differences include:
 * No Varnish or Squid
 * i18n files are cached differently
 * No HTTPS redirection
 * Langlinks not setup
 * Doesn't have Captchas setup
 * Doesn't have any AbuseFilter rules setup
 * Doesn't have test data populated
 * No ExternalStore
 * No extension1 DB for Echo and Flow
 * No master-slave caching (with lag)

Interested persons:
 * 1) Arthur Richards
 * 2) Yuvi Panda

Local Wikipedia forks
"Semi-autonomous instances of localized Wikipedia". Expand on the work of SOS Children, the Rachel Project to create packaged snapshots of wikipedia contents that can be deployed on local storage e.g. SD cards in a tablet computer, 3G WiFi router, etc. and on a Raspberry Pi, etc. Ideally there'll be bi-directional updates from the local instance to wikipedia and from wikipedia to the local instance - asynchronous synchronization. People using one of these snapshot instances would be able to create new content and revise existing contents. One of the main goals is to help extend the reach locality and relevance of wikipedia for people throughout the world.

I've been doing some work in this area already and will bring hardware, etc. to demo and test our work.

There's lots of known-unknowns for this project. With your help I hope we'll be able to

Interested persons:
 * 1) Julian Harty

Possibly interested:
 * Not interested if it's yet another offline Wikipedia work, but I'd be interested if this was focused on Kiwix/ZIM incremental updates + the ability to edit locally (and then submit changes). --Nemo 14:29, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

Future of version control, bug reporting and other developer tools
It's been 2 years since we setup the current infrastructure around developer tools with Gerrit and Jenkins. Not everyone's happy and things break more often than we like. Additionally there's been rumblings for years about getting rid of Bugzilla. I think it's high time we have a discussion about what we envision our ideal development environment to be and figure out what it would take to get us there. Are there any tools (hint hint: Phabricator) that can help get us most of the way there?

Interested persons:
 * 1) Chad