Berlin Hackathon 2012



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Join the Wikimedia development community in Berlin.

All Wikimedia community developers and sysadmins are invited to Berlin Hackathon 2012 to collaborate and share ideas. Please register .






 * MediaWiki & extensions developers
 * MediaWiki systems administrators
 * Toolserver users
 * Gadgets makers
 * Bots maintainers
 * Template writers
 * Users of Wikimedia bigdata

You'll work on whatever project excites you. And you'll have opportunities to learn about and hack on:
 * ResourceLoader 2 and the Gadgets rewrite
 * Lua scripting (for templates)
 * Wikimedia Germany's Wikidata initiative and other structured data projects



Goals and topics for the Hackathon.

This is the premier event for the MediaWiki and Wikimedia technical community. We'll be hacking, designing, and socialising.

Our goals for the event are to bring 100-150 people together, with lots of people who have not attended such events before. User scripts, gadgets, API use, Toolserver, Wikimedia Labs, mobile, structured data, templates -- if you are into any of these things, we want you to come!

Goals:
 * More outreach to variety of people - aim for 120-130 participants (judging that ~100 came last year)
 * Get Lua training for anyone who wants it
 * Inform people about ResourceLoader 2 & new Gadgets support, train JS authors
 * Get Labs or Toolserver accounts for anyone who wants them
 * Get at least 5 gadgets/tools/templates/bots developers/authors to get into larger Wikimedia community, stay in it 3 months after event
 * Facilitate chapter tech community
 * Keep last year's quality of experience while upping attendance
 * Better social events that help build relationships, facilitate mingling.

Wikimedia organizes hackathons all year, around the world. Previous hackathon events were held in Pune, India Feb 10-12, 2012, San Francisco, USA Jan 20-22, 2012 ,  Mumbai, India Nov 19&20, 2011 ,  Brighton, UK Nov 18-20, 2011 ,  NOLA, USA Oct 14-16, 2011 ,  Berlin, Germany May 13-15, 2011 , Amsterdam, Netherlands Jan 14, 2011 ,  Washington DC, USA Oct 22–24, 2010.

 Berlin attendees will include:


 * Jeroen De Dauw - structured data (WikiData & SMW)
 * Aude
 * Wikinaut - discussing Extension:OpenID, open e-mail notification issues and more
 * SVG - representing the free wiki hoster Wikiunity and discussing about wiki farms
 * Judytuna - coming from WPSFHack!
 * Bináris (pywikipediabot developer) — listening. Bináristalk 09:57, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
 * TheDJ
 * Multichill
 * Krinkle
 * Smihael (most likely; interface tweaks for easier editing of Wikisource)
 * Adam Wight Read/Write Offline
 * OrenBochman
 * Kolossos (Maps/OpenStreetMap)
 * DanielRenfro (going to try to make it...pretty busy in June)
 * Saper I'd like to refactor schema handling for various databases
 * Max Semenik (talk) WikiData, WMF stuff
 * Siebrand &mdash; General i18n and L10n related meddling.
 * Sridhar Gutam
 * Daniel Mietchen (WiR/OS), Open Access Media Importer
 * TParis - Unblock Ticket Request System, and a botclasses.php based bot on English Wikipedia

Volunteers

 * SVG - I could be there a day earlier and help at several things that need to be done


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 Berlin 2012

» June 1:

Introductions and Hacking

» June 2:

Hacking and Tutorials

» June 3:

Hacking and Presentations


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