User:01tonythomas/Wikimania 2018

Summary
I could take part in the 2018 edition of Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town, July 18-22 including the first 3 days of productive Hackathon. This is my second Wikimania, and probably 6th Wikimedia/Wikimania HackathonUser:01tonythomas/Hackathons. Some of the notable achievements I can talk about are:


 * 1) Long awaited patch set for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155273 - to introduce subscription logging to Extension:Newsletter. You can see the patchset here: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/Newsletter/+/447087/ I thank all the developers who were there to help me push that one through.
 * 2) Another minor patch for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174664 - to support inter-wiki links.
 * 3) Productive discussions afterr Wikimania Asian meetup to form a developer community in India. We are having follow-ups, which is nice.

I thank Wikimedia DE for the scholarship for the same, and the foundation for pulling the right string to provide me the right travel documents on time.

Conclusion
In general, I enjoyed and found this edition of Wikimania very productive. Probably I was hanging out more with the Wikimedia DE team, and they were very inclusive - which set the mood for the whole week event. I thank Wikimedia DE, and the foundation again for the opportunity.