Wikimedia Hackathon 2017/Program

How to schedule breakout sessions
How to schedule Proposed Sessions & Skill Share:
 * If your breakout session lasts up to 1 hour
 * schedule it yourself in the tables below in one of the time slots indicated as free!
 * OR ask the hackathon organizers via hackathon@wikimedia.at to do this for you.
 * If your breakout session lasts longer than 1 hour
 * please reach out to hackathon@wikimedia.at and don't schedule this session on your own.

All sessions need to have an associated Phabricator task with a description linked to the schedule. If you are unsure how to create one we can help you at hackathon@wikimedia.at

If you already have a Phabricator account and are interested in attending a specific breakout session please subscribe to the associated task on Phabricator so that breakout session organizers know how many people to expect.

Contribute to the Program


For any of the items listed below, create a task on Phabricator, add  tag, and import it to the respective column on the workboard. Also, indicate in the task description if your proposed activity is newcomer-friendly.
 * Propose a session, workshop, or project
 * Proposed Sessions - Session covering any of the Wikimedia’s technical areas.
 * Skill Share - Hands-on skill development workshops on topics around technology stack of Wikimedia projects.
 * Featured Tasks - List of projects that are suitable for volunteers proposed by the participants and curated by the organizers.
 * Backlog - If you don't know where to list your task, add it here and we will help you.

Featured Tasks
 * Become a point of contact for a project of your own or from our list of ideas


 * Express your interest in being a point of contact for one of the featured tasks, or for your own project idea by adding it to the table.
 * A good example of a proposed featured project is one which is clearly articulated, attainable, and not requiring complex or lengthy discussion from subject matter experts before implementation. Projects suitable for onboarding newcomers are most welcomed.
 * Being a point of contact for a project means, that you will be available and willing to answer any project-related queries at the hackathon.


 * Express your interest in contributing to a project of your own or from our list of ideas
 * If you would like to contribute or work on one of the featured tasks during the hackathon, list yourself under ‘Interested member(s)’ column in the table. You are welcome to add your own idea too!
 * With this, we would like to connect you with other attendees looking to work on similar projects as you do before the hackathon.

Opening
Friday 19 May 2017, 10-11.30 – in Room Heuriger

Welcome to the Wikimedia Hackathon 2017 in Vienna!

City tour to Zentralfriedhof


Thursday 18 May 2017, 14-17 – starting and end point: next to the information and registration desk at the Atrium

Austrian Wikimedians Häferl and Regiomontanus will show you the Zentralfriedhof, Vienna's main cemetery where Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, the Strauss family and other personalities from the city’s past are buried. We will use public transport to get there, so make sure that you have your public transport ticket with you.

Please register here with your signature --~ (max. 20 participants):
 * 1) MJPCubelo
 * 2)   MusikAnimal  talk  03:18, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
 * 3) 01tonythomas (talk) 09:39, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

City tours to the historic centre of Vienna


Tour 1: Thursday 18 May 2017, 14.30-17 – starting and end point: next to the information and registration desk in the Atrium

Tour 2: Sunday 21 May 2017, 13-15.30 – starting and end point: next to the information and registration desk in the Atrium

The Austrian Wikimedians Volker (tour 1) as well as Thomas Ledl, Plani and Regiomontanus (tour 2) will show you the historic centre of Vienna. We will use public transport to get there, so make sure that you have your public transport ticket with you.

Please register here for tour 1 (Thursday) with your signature --~ (max. 10 participants):
 * 1) Anomie (talk)
 * 2) --Sandaru (talk) 19:44, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
 * 3) JMatazzoni (WMF) (talk) 19:58, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
 * 4) BSitzmann (WMF) (talk) 22:42, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
 * 5) Maskaravivek (talk) 5:25, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
 * 6) 01tonythomas (talk) 09:39, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

Please register here for tour 2 (Sunday) with your signature --~ (max. 25 participants):
 * 1) MJPCubelo
 * 2) Strainu (talk)
 * 3) --FNDE (talk) 20:04, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
 * 4) Ziko
 * 5) DenisaRucaj (talk) 20:22, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
 * 6) DannyH (WMF)
 * 7) User:Etonkovidova ET 21:29, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
 * 8) Smalyshev (WMF) (talk) 06:20, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
 * 9) Roan Kattouw (WMF) (talk) 07:03, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
 * 10) Ad Huikeshoven (talk) 13:57, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

Vienna Open Data MeetUp & Open Data Drinks


Thursday 18 May 2017, 17-21 – at MetaLab

The 11th Vienna Open Data MeetUp at Vienna's hack space MetaLab dedicates this evening to the Wikiverse. There will also be an opportunity to take a tour through MetaLab. The MeetUp will be held in English. No extra registration required.

Program:
 * Philip Kopetzky (Wikimedia Austria): Welcome to the Wikiverse!
 * Jean-Frédéric Berthelot (Wikimedia France/Austria): The Wonderful World of Wikidata
 * Daniel Mietchen (University of Virginia) and Stefan Kasberger (ContentMine, Open Knowledge Austria): Text Data Mining of Pandemics (Zika) with Open Access Literature and Wikidata
 * Lightning Talks: 5 min max.
 * starting at 19: Open Data Drinks

MetaLab on Open Street Map
 * Address: Rathausstraße 6, 1010 Wien
 * How to get there: Take the U3 underground line (direction Ottakring) from Enkplatz underground station Wikidata-logo.svg to Volkstheater underground station Wikidata-logo.svg. From there it's a 15 mins walk.

Fantastic MediaWikis and How to Maintain Them
Friday 19 May 2017, 11.30-18 – in Room Powidl

Fantastic MediaWikis program

This one-day conference track called "Fantastic Mediawikis and How to Maintain Them" is designed for people who work with the open source software MediaWiki in their organization, company or business. The conference track is curated by the MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group.

Read the full program of "Fantastic MediaWikis and How to Maintain Them".

Hackathon participants are invited to join the track whenever they want, spontaneously drop by for one hour or stay for the whole day, just like in any other session of the hackathon.

Humanities social sciences and wikis
Friday 19 May 2017, 14.00-15.00 in Room Wiaschtl

An informal meeting about wikis, for everybody who is interested in the humanities, social sciences and related topics. Do you study how wikis work? Do you support a wiki and want to talk about topics that are not exactly covered by computer science? Have you thought about a multidisciplinary approach in your research? Welcome to this meeting! Contact person is Ziko.

Wikidata documentation sprint
Wikidata documentation sprint program

The documentation sprint is a session that will take place during the 3 days of the hackathon. Its main goal is to improve user-documentation about Wikidata and Wikibase.

Anyone is welcome to join at any moment during the event, join a team or not, work on one of the suggested topics or not.

We will build a list of tasks with the community, so participants can work alone or in teams. During the sprint, we will also organize short workshops about useful tools (e.g. translation tools, illustration). Organizers will provide advices to help participants to build a good documentation. Non-tech people welcome. People will be able to attend remotely.


 * Phabricator task: Wikidata documentation sprint
 * Our 3 focus points:
 * Beginner documentation about Wikidata
 * Lua for Wikimedians
 * Wikibase installation
 * Project runners: Jens Ohlig (WMDE), Léa Lacroix (WMDE)

The Sweet Taste of Austria


Saturday 20 May 2017, 16-17 – in the Atrium

by prazlab

Austrian traditional recipes derive from different cuisines of the cultures that formed the historical Austro-Hungarian Empire. Not only famous for the Schnitzel, the Viennese cuisine is characterized by its "sweet tooth". Austrian desserts like the Sachertorte, the apple strudel , and the Linzertorte are well known internationally. According to this culinary tradition sweet dishes are not destined to be only enjoyed at the end of the meal, they can be served as a main dish.

In a feast of typical Austrian sweet dishes, prazlab collective prepared for you a buffet with the best-known cakes: Sachertorte, apple strudel, Linzertorte, Marmorgugelhupf (marble bundt cake), Esterházy torte and Streuselkuchen. The ingredients of the original recipes are mapped according to the statistical data about the Wikipedia entry of the cake. This update adds to the taste its metadata: the date of creation of the article, the number of edits and the amount of visitors of the page.

''About the prazlab art collective: Since 2012 Veronika and Vesela have been working together on multisensorial experiences, creating edible interfaces, artistic visualizations and food data tastifications. Their works are based on the most universal language of food, using cooking techniques and focusing on the act of eating.''

Group photo
Friday 19 May 2017, 17-17.30 – in the Atrium

Join us for the Wikimedia Hackathon group photo if you like. If the weather is favorable, we go outside.

Breton dance


Friday 19 May 2017, 20-21 – in Room Powidl

Léa will introduce you to the secrets of la danse bretonne.

Karaoke
Friday 19 May 2017, 20-23 – in Café Wien

Come sing with us! :-)

Hackathon Party


Saturday 20 May 2017, starting at 21 – in Arena Wien

For Saturday night, we’d like to take you out to party! We’ve booked a venue exclusively for Hackathon attendees in one of Vienna’s nicest event locations, the Arena Wien, which is conveniently close to the hackathon venue. We’ll buy you a drink and book two DJs, so you can hit the dancefloor, socialize at the bar, or just hang out in the spacious outdoor area and enjoy some of Vienna’s best subculture locations.

DJs
 * eugene
 * as well as playing some butt-shaking funky beats, dj eugene will take us on a musical journey, telling stories with some worldwide sounds and ideas


 * shroombab
 * shroombab makes nasty breakbeat & electronic music with a message: her main topics are inspired by net politics - the end of privacy and the increase of mass surveillance
 * more at SoundCloud.com/Shroombab

Arena Wien on Open Street Map
 * Address: Baumgasse 80, 1030 Wien
 * How to get there: It’s a 20 mins walk or take the U3 underground line (direction Ottakring) from Enkplatz underground station Wikidata-logo.svg to Erdberg underground station Wikidata-logo.svg. The Vienna underground runs all night long on Saturdays.

Showcase & Closing
Sunday 21 May 2017, 15.30-17 – in Room Heuriger

Time to say good-bye or "Sag zum Abschied leise Servus" as we say/sing in Vienna ...

Mentoring program
Mentoring Program

For this year’s Hackathon we will be implementing a mentoring program for newcomers to our movement. The mentoring program is a new approach that we are trying out for the first time, where we were looking for Wikimedians who will be at the hackathon exclusively as mentors. They will come up with newcomer-friendly projects and ideas and, during the whole weekend, work with groups of about two to six newcomers, to help them with the whole onboarding process, and make their way into the great Wikimedia tech community as easy and as much fun as possible. The focus is to welcome more newcomers into the community, by introducing them to the different aspects of working with MediaWiki, and help them achieve their own first steps during the hackathon weekend. Additionally, we want to create a welcoming social atmosphere, so we can further diversity and growth in our community.

Contact: hackathon@undefinedwikimedia.at This e-mail address can be used for all inquiries or questions regarding the event.