Wikimedia Technical Talks

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

 * Wikipedia Zero Tech Talk - Yuri - Feb 25 status: getting title and summary from zero team
 * Facebook/Hack - Josh Watzman, Damien Sereni & James Douglas - March 3rd status: finalizing timing and title/summary.
 * Team Practices Group: Remote Best Practices: Kristen Lans - Week of March 16-20 status: finalizing date/time
 * Legal/licensing - Luis Villa Feb 23 or 24. status: postponed! will follow up regarding rescheduling at the end of Feb.


 * Timo Tijhof (Krinkle) on grunt tasks and taking advantage of our default `npm test` infrastructure
 * T95202 Kanban - Kevin Smith - June 2015


 * The work Analytics engineering are doing and how we could help
 * An understanding of Flow, where it's at and where it's going
 * Where the current pain points for the Fundraising team are - Sherah Smith?
 * 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)
 * Yuri - Creating Graphs
 * Wikidata - Lydia/Community member - open to all
 * Frances Hocutt on what makes a good web API client library (and the client library gold standard)
 * Tony Tomasz -
 * Bryan Davis on how to search for problems on beta or production in logstash/kibana

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


 * 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