Berlin Hackathon 2011

The Berlin Hackathon 2011 is an opportunity for MediaWiki hackers 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.

Date

 * Date is fixed: May 13-15, 2011

Registration
Note: registration will be mandatory. Registration will open on 9 or 10 March.

Straw Poll
Please tell us when on which weekends you can't come. If you like, let us also know why - we are especially interested in the dates for exams etc around Europe.

Location

 * betahaus berlin
 * Prinzessinnenstraße 19-20
 * 10969 Berlin
 * http://betahaus.de/
 * kontakt@betahaus.de

Schedule
The rough plan is to talk and coordinate in the mornings (that's engineer morning, before lunch at 2pm or so), hack all afternoon (until we are hungry again), then find food, then have some fun in Berlin (and/or do more hacking). We are looking to have the venue open around the clock, or at the very least until midnight.

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


 * Fixing the parser. Once and for all. New parser design, MediaWiki.next
 * Expansion of the Virtualization Framework
 * Improving usability/accessibility with little skin hacks
 * newbie experience: Small gadgets/tools/improvements that make the lives of new users easier (-Erik Moeller)
 * Wiki loves Monuments
 * Maps in Wikipedia (OSM, Toolserver (?))
 * meta:Wikiportrait
 * Offline tools
 * (bug 25558) Mobile site rewrite in PHP
 * Commons upload interface?. It would be very useful a multifile upload tool to Commons for the Wiki loves Monuments project. (Extension:UploadWizard / commons:Special:UploadWizard)
 * Bug squashing. Please make a list below, preferably of issues related to the topics above.
 * 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)
 * New editing user interfaces (visual, granular, collaborative (real-time), etc.)
 * Operations
 * The new data center, and preparing all infrastructure and services for dual data center and fail-over

Feel free to comment on the above or add your own idea. Note however that we will try to keep the event focused on not too many different topics.

Note: the GLAM theme was dropped, because there is already going to be a GLAM hacking even in spring or summer on the US east coast (NY or DC, it seems).
 * Not sure now when/if GLAM camp or hacking will be. It would be okay + good if some GLAM hacking happened in Berlin, such as relating to the Wiki Loves Monuments. (maps too!) Aude 18:13, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
 * the GLAMcamp NYC Event is now tentatively rescheduled to take place corresponding to the Berlin hackathon. It is not meant primarily as a tech meeting but certainly it would be good to get some GLAM specific work done there too :-) do you think it would be more useful to have the meeting simultaneously to Berlin (and maybe get some real-time collab going), or in the weekend following Berlin? Witty lama 02:08, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

bug list

 * Bugs with keyword need-parsertest
 * Bugs with keyword parser
 * define XML namespace for output of web API (trivial)
 * Repurpose the hackaton/add to it?

Contact
Please write to [mailto:hackathon@wikimedia.de hackathon@wikimedia.de]