Berlin Hackathon 2011

The Berlin Hackathon 2011 is an opportunity for MediaWiki developers to come together, squash bugs and write crazy new features. Like the last two years, it's going to be awesome. Unlike the last two years, there will be more hacking and less talking. Also, this time around, we will do this independently from the Wikimedia Conference.

Registration is closed. If you feel you absolutely must come, contact us at [mailto:hackathon@wikimedia.de hackathon@wikimedia.de].

Venue

 * Venue

Accommodation, directions and information

 * Accommodation
 * Getting there
 * Practical information about Berlin
 * Map of the venue and accommodation
 * Twitter feed, IRC channel, Wikimedia Eiximenis etherpad, on-wiki note taking (tba)

Schedule
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Thursday
! valign="top" | ! valign="top" | 4pm - 8pm and/or Computerspielemuseum TBA ! valign="top" | 6pm - 8pm ! valign="top" style="height: 4em" | Evening ! valign="top" style="height: 4em" | Night {| class="wikitable" style="float:left" | ! colspan="2" |
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 * style="height:4em" | possibly a city tour
 * style="height:4em" | Pre-registration possible at the Hostel
 * possibly something dinner-ish, TBA
 * }
 * }

Friday
! valign="top" | 9am ! valign="top" | 1pm ! valign="top" | 2pm ! valign="top" | 3pm ! valign="top" | 7pm ! valign="top" style="height: 4em" | Evening ! valign="top" style="height: 4em" | Night {| class="wikitable" style="float:left" | ! colspan="2" |
 * style="height:8em" | Wiki Loves Monuments
 * style="height:2em" | Hackathon Registration & Lunch
 * style="height:2em; background-color: #EEF" | Hackathon Opening Session
 * style="height:8em; background-color: #EEF" | Hacking and Presentations
 * style="height:2em; background-color: #EEF" | Quick Wrapup
 * hacking, eating, going out
 * open end hacking
 * }

Saturday
! valign="top" | ! valign="top" | 10am ! valign="top" | 11am ! valign="top" | noon ! valign="top" | 1pm ! valign="top" | 2pm ! valign="top" | 7pm ! valign="top" style="height: 4em" | Evening ! valign="top" style="height: 4em" | Night {| class="wikitable" style="float:left" | ! colspan="2" |
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 * style="height:2em" | Doors Open
 * style="height:2em; background-color: #EEF" | Opening Session
 * style="height:2em; background-color: #EEF" | Lightning Talks
 * style="height:2em; background-color: #EEF" | Lunch
 * style="height:10em; background-color: #EEF" | Hacking and Presentations
 * style="height:2em; background-color: #EEF" | Quick Wrapup
 * hacking, eating, going out
 * open end hacking
 * }

Sunday
! valign="top" | ! valign="top" | 10am ! valign="top" | 11am ! valign="top" | 1pm ! valign="top" | 2pm ! valign="top" | 4pm ! valign="top" | 6pm ! valign="top" style="height: 4em" | Evening ! valign="top" style="height: 4em" | Night 
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 * style="height:2em" | Doors Open
 * style="height:4em; background-color: #EEF" | Code Sprint
 * style="height:2em; background-color: #EEF" | Lunch
 * style="height:4em; background-color: #EEF" | Closing Session
 * style="height:4em" | BOAF, maybe some social event
 * style="height:4em" | Doors Close
 * rowspan="2" | Lounge at the c-base (probably)
 * }

Attendees

 * Official list of attendees

Side programme

 * Social Events (tba)
 * Sightseeing (tba)
 * Berlin Web Week
 * Computerspielemuseum (Museum for computer and video games) (tba)

Volunteers

 * Help needed

Topics
Here are the things we want to focus on at the hackathon

More Ideas

 * Language support - the Language committee is meeting in parallel sessions and there is some of the best expertise available in this group.
 * Big Data & Visualizations
 * RENDER - WMDE is involved in a EU funded study of editor behavior, article quality, etc. -- Daniel Kinzler (WMDE) 18:46, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Better diff tool for nongeeks to grok? (see alpha software developed for "What Did They Do? Deriving High-Level Edit Histories in Wikis", paper by Peter Kin-Fong Fong and Robert P. Biuk-Aghai)
 * Real-time reading/editing Geo visualization
 * anybody interested in hacking CiviCRM/Drupal? -Prolineserver 18:08, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
 * machine readable reasons for deletion, blocking, and oversight. -- Daniel Kinzler (WMDE) 08:38, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
 * New editing user interfaces (visual, granular, collaborative (real-time), etc.)
 * may depend on parser, see above
 * Commons & Multimedia
 * Better licensing tools
 * Find a solution for multilanguage categories. This could help people to use Commons.
 * Better large file uploading
 * Improved Video support
 * Semantics and metadata
 * Having licensing in the DB (License integration) –Krinkle, Roan, Bryan
 * Better exploitation of metadata on Commons
 * Semantic Wikisource i.e. Wikisource with SemanticMediaWiki (to handle metadata; cfr. this Wikidata thread)
 * Sister projects:
 * Wikiquote more database-like (quotations with metadata, to extract them by author, work, theme or whatever): SemanticMediaWiki again?
 * Improve custom wiktionary editing tools (wikt:en:User:Conrad.Irwin/editor_docs)
 * Mobile
 * Would you give an eye for a page on strategy site? It's about mobile browser app.
 * (bug 25558) Mobile site rewrite in PHP
 * Applications for Admins! Patrolling on your android while on the bus... -- Daniel Kinzler (WMDE) 18:46, 17 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Offline
 * Kiwix: what's next (next tasks, improve the organisation, how to help, kiwix for mobile, ...) ?
 * WMF Full ZIM build solution.


 * WikiLove - expand existing user script per the design document, and add new modules!
 * Wikisource reCAPTCHA
 * meta:Wikiportrait

One the Sidelines (or later)

 * Toolserver
 * what exactly? –Krinkle
 * purpose of toolserver, what services it provides, and any process/workflow changes we're interested in. Sumanah 20:55, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Contact

 * mail: <[mailto:hackathon@wikimedia.de hackathon@wikimedia.de]>
 * Panic Phone for emergencies: +49 176 38344344 (only during the event)
 * Programme coordination: Daniel Kinzler <[mailto:daniel.kinzler.AT.wikimedia.de daniel.kinzler AT wikimedia.de]>
 * Logistics: Nicole Ebber <[mailto:nicole.ebber.AT.wikimedia.de nicole.ebber AT wikimedia.de]>
 * Assistent: Cornelius Kibelka <[mailto:cornelius.kibelka.AT.wikimedia.de cornelius.kibelka AT wikimedia.de]>