Wikimedia Technical Talks

Tech talks are short presentations with community question and answer sessions. They are usually under an hour in length and focus on a specific technical topic.

For information on setting up a Tech talk, see Project:Calendar/How to schedule an event

We usually present tech talks using Google Hangouts On Air, which makes them available on YouTube. There is a concurrent IRC office hour for questions on IRC, so the talks also appear there.

Nominations/Ideas for future tech talks

 * Visual diffs - Thalia Chan, 31 Jan 17, status: scheduling
 * SFPHP Meetup < https://www.meetup.com/sf-php/>, Terry Chay 13 Feb 2016 status: scheduling


 * Timo Tijhof (Krinkle) on grunt tasks and taking advantage of our default `npm test` infrastructure
 * Rob proposes that Timo (or someone in frontend) speaks about mixins.


 * The work Analytics engineering are doing and how we could help
 * An understanding of Flow, where it's at and where it's going
 * on the new visual design for MediaWiki/mediawiki.ui or whatever that library is called these days.
 * QA (Zeljiko? Chris?) about browser testing
 * Daniel Kinzler on core refactoring of Title and other classes.
 * Pau Giner on dos and don'ts in user testing
 * Niklas Laxström on conversing with robots that know Wikipedia (part of his Phd research)
 * Antoine Musso on Jenkins - status: emailed Antoine/Antoine on paternity leave. hold.
 * Moriel Schottlender on right-to-left support (adapting her blog post into a talk)
 * Wikidata - Lydia/Community member - open to all
 * Tony Tomasz -
 * Webinar on Zotero translator coding
 * Aaron Halfaker on machine learning support for wiki-workflows.

Past tech talks
You can browse through past tech talk recordings in the Commons category and on the MediaWiki YouTube channel.


 * 9 February 2017 - A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners (including non-techies!)
 * 15 November 2016 - Using Kibana4 to read logs at Wikimedia - Bryan Davis
 * 31 May 2016 - Integrating user behavior to design better products
 * 18 April 2016 - UX Prototype Labs: Understanding Wikipedia Readers
 * 22 March 2016 - Reflections on WMF: Community Dynamics
 * 18 March 2016 - New readership data. Some things we've been learning recently about how Wikipedia is read (video, slides)
 * 29 February 2016 - Automated citations in Wikipedia: Citoid and the technology behind it (YouTube)
 * 8 February 2016 - Tech Law Training: Privacy, Security, Licensing, & Beyond (private event)
 * 8 February 2016 - A Hands-on Estimation Exercise
 * 14 January 2016 - Creating Useful Dashboards with Grafana(abstract)
 * 15 December 2015 - The creation of Histography, from concept to design
 * 9 December 2015 - Secure Coding For MediaWiki Developers
 * 3 November 2015 - The making of a MediaWiki skin(abstract)
 * 2 November 2015 - Nothing Left but Always Right: The Twisted Road to RTL Support (YouTube, slides)
 * 23 October, 2015 - Introduction to Free and Open Source Licensing at Wikimedia - Stephen LaPorte
 * 20 August, 2015 - ELK: Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana at Wikimedia (WebM format on Commons, also on YouTube) - Bryan Davis (slides)
 * 18 August, 2015 - Let's talk about web performance - Peter Hedenskog
 * 15 June, 2015 - Kanban: An alternative to Scrum? - Kevin Smith (slides)
 * 14 May, 2015 - Graphs! Visualize maps and data graphs live on Wikipedia - Yuri Astrakhan and Dan Andreescu
 * 14 April, 2015 - The state of Team Health across Wikimedia Engineering - Kristen Lans
 * 4 March, 2015 - Hack - An Evolution of PHP - Josh Watzman from Facebook
 * 6 January, 2015 - A developer's-eye view of API client libraries - Frances Hocutt
 * 11 December, 2014 - Phabricator for Wikimedia Projects - Quim Gil and Andre Klapper
 * 25 November, 2014 - MediaWiki-Vagrant What is New With MediaWiki Vagrant with Bryan Davis and Dan Duvall (slides, video)
 * 03 November, 2014 - Language Engineering: Content Translation Tool - Joel Sahleen
 * 22 October, 2014 - Design Research in Product Development - Abbey Ripstra
 * 06 October, 2014 - The Dashboarding Problem - Dan Andreescu and Nuria Ruiz
 * 24 September, 2014 - The Very Basics of Phabricator - Andre Klapper
 * 29 July, 2014 - HHVM in production: what that means for Wikimedia developers - Paul Tarjan
 * 15 July, 2014 - Hadoop and Beyond. An overview of Analytics infrastructure - Andrew Otto
 * 11 June, 2014 - How, What, Why of WikiFont - May Galloway and Monte Hurd
 * 15 May, 2014 - Elasticsearch - Nik Everett
 * 15 April, 2014 - A preliminary look at Parsoid internals - Subramanya Sastry and Gabriel Wicke