User:Waldyrious/Hackathons/2019

Prague, 16-19 May 2019

Preliminary plans

 * Originally posted on Wikimedia Hackathon 2019/Participant List


 * What should others ask you about?
 * documentation, welcoming beginner developers, regex, git, SVG, SPARQL queries, CLDR, minority languages


 * Your hackathon plan / relevant to other participants


 * My main interests currently surround Wikidata, where I'd like to work in a few fronts:
 * 1) Systematic (semi-automated) improvement of data about various topics: given names and surnames; administrative divisions (boundaries, population...); musical notes, chords and scales; software releases and licenses; map projections, etc.
 * 2) Improving query builders (graphical interfaces to perform SPARQL queries), as well as other tools like Mix'n'match, Wikidata game and the Distributed game, Cradle, Tabernacle, QuickStatements, Reasonator, etc.
 * 3) Learning more about lexemes so I can start building a Cape Verdean creole dictionary.
 * 4) Besides Wikidata, I'd love to join forces with others wanting to improve documentation and usability to make technical contributions to the Wikimedia projects easier for beginners.
 * Depending on who I can team up with, I hope to end up working in one or two projects from the list above, and ideally also contribute some small fixes to mediawiki.

Hacking projects
During this hackathon I focused my work on four areas:
 * Improving Primerpedia
 * Visual SPARQL query builders (see poster I made for the project matching session)
 * Improving documentation
 * Submitting bug reports and feature requests to Phabricator

I've documented this work in a lot more detail in this Workflowy document (editable version)

Sessions
In-between hacking, technical discussions and general socialization, I attended the following scheduled sessions of the event.

(For more details on the sessions, see the Program and the list of tasks on Phabricator.)

Friday, 17 May

 * 09:30–11:00 → Opening session
 * 11:00–11:30 → Poster creation session
 * 12:00–12:30 → Project matching session
 * 18:30–19:30 → Jam band

Saturday, 18 May

 * 13:30–14:00 → Group photo
 * 16:00–17:00 → Wikidata meeting
 * 18:30–19:30 → Jam band
 * 19:30–20:30 → Bohemian beer tasting

Sunday, 19 May

 * 11:00–12:00 → Wikibase install party
 * 15:00–18:00 → Hackathon closing & showcase