Wikimedia Hackathon 2015/Buddies


 * See also wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon/Buddies

Let's use this page to organize Hackathon Buddies in Lyon.

Looking for a buddy

 * Brian Gerstle (BGerstle (WMF)) - iOS developer and testing enthusiast.
 * Dan Garry (Deskana (WMF) / Deskana) - If you like mobile apps or want to know about product management, pick me! :-)
 * Nik Everett (manybubbles/NEverett (WMF)) - Mostly wikidata lately
 * Niharika - Just about anything. I'd like to take this as an opportunity to learn.
 * Dmitry Brant (DBrant (WMF)) - Android app development: let's build more nifty mobile gadgets to encourage users to consume and contribute to Wikipedia :)
 * Chad - Planning to do a sprint on config changes for WMF wikis that they want/need done.
 * RobH - Planning to do a sprint as the dedicated ops support (dns/apache/etc) for this sprint.
 * Corey Floyd (CFloyd (WMF)) - iOS App development - I want to experiment with new UX paradigms and develop some new, useful, and fun ways to interact with wikipedia and wikidata on mobile.
 * Timo Tijhof (Krinkle) - Most anything. Getting started with software development, inner workings of VisualEditor, how countervandalism and patrolling work, cheesy 80s TV shows, pepperoni pizza, ..
 * James Forrester (Jdforrester (WMF)) – Product management, future of the wikis, editing tools, you name
 * Bryan Davis (BDavis (WMF)) - Interested in converting MediaWiki logging to direct use of PSR-3 but also willing to hear pitches on alternate projects involving logging, authentication, deployment tooling, or MediaWiki-Vagrant.
 * Andrewbogott (talk) 20:05, 24 February 2015 (UTC) - Probably something to do with labs or tools stability, for example https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T59834 or https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89995. I'd also enjoy working on labs-vagrant.
 * Jon Katz (jkatz_wmf) - Product management, interested in working on new ways to discover content: browsing on Wikipedia! (tagging, categories, related, etc)
 * Greg Grossmeier (Greg (WMF)) - All things WMF Release Engineering, including: Third-party MediaWiki releases, WMF site requests (née "shell bugs"), continuous integration (ie: getting your stuff tested), etc...
 * Rummana Yasmeen (User:RYasmeen_(WMF))-Introduction to QA/Testing approaches/Breaking the software ,QA process at WMF, Testathon for VisualEditor, Basics of browser testing.
 * Gilles Dubuc (User:GDubuc (WMF)) - I'm on the Multimedia team, but I'm happy to work on anything. I'd be happy to help someone out who has a clear idea of what they need and could use engineering help to get it done.
 * Monte Hurd - iOS App dev - Generally interested in experimenting on apps with things that would be difficult to do in a browser. Also interested in apps UX refinements, nearby, micro-type contributions, and bringing to apps Wikipedia interfaces which don't yet exist in apps - like a recently edited feed, or a list of most read articles for the day/week.
 * Bernd Sitzmann (BSitzmann (WMF) (talk)) - Open for anything Android Wikipedia app related, possibly fast search language switching if we can't come up with anything more interesting by then. All levels of Android development or design skills welcome.
 * I'm a volunteer developer looking for a buddy, pywikibot (or bot operating), Wikidata, and javascript gadgets. I'm a newbie in mediawiki core (really willing to create a system for book links) Ladsgroup (talk) 10:02, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Andrew Garrett / Werdna looking for somebody to work with on UI Standardisation (let me help you convert your interfaces to our new interface standard!).
 * C. Scott Ananian (CAnanian (WMF)/cscott) -- php thumbnailer as a service. Proof of concept for a more modular organization for the core codebase.
 * Tyler Cipriani (TCipriani (WMF) -- New on release engineering team. Would love to do a proof of concept surrounding deploy and hhvm.hhbc pre-compilation/distribution. Possibly with docker. I also enjoy long walks on the beach, but not getting caught in the rain :(.
 * Roan Kattouw (WMF) (talk) - All things VisualEditor and ResourceLoader. In particular, I'm thinking of redoing debug mode properly
 * Prateek Saxena/prtksxna: looking for people interested in front-end stuff - UI standardisation or skins.


 * Gergő Tisza (Tgr (WMF)) - interested in most things that are PHP, JS, Python or Vagrant related; the area I have the most experience with is multimedia.
 * Parent5446 - interested mostly in core architecture and security components, but will work on anything back-end related.
 * Željko Filipin - Ruby, Selenium, Cucumber, continuos integration, Jenkins, Jenkins Job builder, testing (desktop and mobile browsers, mobile apps), beer...
 * Quiddity (WMF) - Community Liaison (working primarily with Flow and Echo products), happy to work with anyone on communication and collaboration issues.
 * EBernhardson (WMF) - Engineer mostly working on Flow, but also Echo. Interested in hhvm, hacklang, better database abstractions, and other things that improve the development experience. Open to ideas of things to work on.
 * DDuvall (WMF) - Mostly working on MW-Vagrant and MW-Selenium. Interested in a anonymous usage statistics project for MW-Vagrant or anything related to MW-V or unit/browser/acceptance/visual testing. I also plan on stuffing my face with delicious food, beer, wine.
 * Moriel Schottlender (MSchottlender-WMF) Working on VisualEditor, TemplateData and RTL support.
 * Katie Horn - Looking for a buddy. As the fundraising tech lead, I will be working on Making DonationInterface more friendly. Not a mediawiki core wizard, but I do know an awful lot about payments integrations.
 * Microchip08 (talk): newbie to the tech side of Wikimedia, looking for an interesting project to get involved with. Open to suggestions!
 * Daniel Kinzler (WMDE) (talk) - I have been working on MediaWiki for ten years, and on Wikidata/Wikibase from the beginning. Interested in learning JQuery and analytics stuff.
 * Kristen Lans – Team Practices, communication and collaboration, processes that support the delivery of user value
 * Nirzar Pangarkar – Looking for someone who is interested in Accessibility projects. Here's the project proposal
 * Aude - I am a developer on the Wikidata project. I am also interested in maps/geo, search, and mobile stuff (I am dabbling in making an OSM android app).


 * Markus Glaser: MediaWiki releases for 3rd parties, extensibility, deployment of services. Potential project could be creating a ready to use MediaWiki for Docker package.


 * Rberchie (talk) I am a volunteer and active editor of most of Wikimedia projects. I want to get an experienced buddy who will help me understand software more so I can do more with my edits and uploads. I am desirous of contributing more on Wikidata too.--Rberchie (talk) 10:09, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Lydia Pintscher (WMDE): Product manager for Wikidata and there to help with all things Wikidata.
 * Lcawte (dependent on funding) - wikifarming/Farmers user group, representing view of third-party users including ShoutWiki and interested in core changes, changes that affect extension/skin developers and general important core changes. Probably other things. --Lcawte (talk) 08:50, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Sumit - beginner contributor to mediawiki core and mobile. Looking for something interesting to work on and learn and meet new people.
 * Matěj Grabovský (talk) – volunteer developer up for any mischief
 * Magioladitis: AWB developer. CHECKWIKI maintainer. In case Reedy is not coming, I am searching for a buddy.
 * Matthias Mullie: Developer, working on Flow & Echo.
 * Daniel Lee: Open for just about anything. This will be my first contribution to Wikimedia, although I've participated in sister projects. Looking for an experienced buddy that can help me contribute and learn the ropes!
 * Nasir Khan: want to build and marge the existing stat tools to identify all type contributions of a user.
 * putnik – volunteer developer. I make gadgets for Wikipedia, also I work with Lua and bots. Interested in front-end stuff.
 * Rdicerb (WMF) - happy to talk data, collaboration, et al.
 * Andreas Burmeister - Working on WikidataQuality as my bachelor's project and topic of my thesis. Interested in getting input about both architecture and desired features.
 * Stephane Bisson - Developer on Flow. New to Wikimedia. Will code for food.
 * User:Ckoerner - third party MediaWiki user in healthcare. A little technical a lot communicative. Would love to help figure out how to help with outreach and communication and learning a little code.
 * Joe Wass - R&D Developer at CrossRef, which is the registration agencies for DOIs for scholarly publications. Most of the citations in scholarly literature are done with DOIs. Anyone who's interested in citations, data or web traffic analysis?
 * User:Darenwelsh - Using MediaWiki to change the way NASA manages its knowledge sharing. I'm interested in creating an extension to address the culture shift to using a wiki by providing a gamified user journey with quests focused on using different MW features and contributing in different ways. I need help from an experienced developer.

Buddies not yet confirmed
Work-in-progress, some details (i.e. travel plans) still might need to be confirmed.


 * Matt Flaschen - Richa Jain
 * 01tonythomas - Qgil-WMF
 * Jon Robson - Florian Schmidt
 * Edlira Dushku - Tgr (WMF)
 * Adam Baso (ABaso (WMF)) - selva (n.b., scholarship review is pending). Original description from my call for a buddy: I'd like a buddy to build a brand new Wikipedia Radio (possibly "Wiki Radio" to unbundle from the brand umbrella) at the hackathon; if it fits we could consider rolling this into the main Wikipedia app as well. If time allows, I'm also very interested in creating an App Extension that would allow people to use the Share button in other apps to share to the existing Wikipedia App for iOS. Finally, if time allows, I may spend some time contributing to adding Watchlist to the iOS app.

Buddies confirmed
Hi buddies, see you in Lyon!


 * Nikerabbit+Nemo – i18n stuff, about 6 of the suggested characteristics
 * Petr Bena + Andre Klapper
 * legoktm + valhallasw T280 deploy dashboard
 * Seb35 and Siebrand / Translate extension / translatewiki.net - details to be worked out.
 * Halfak (WMF) + とある白い猫 Revision scoring service tools!
 * YuviPanda & Maximilianklein (talk) -- Setting up Jupyter use cases and demos.
 * Mark A. Hershberger + Stefankasberger introductions, wiki statistics
 * MarkTraceur (talk) and User:Bawolff - Getting Flickr uploads to a state where we can enable them for everyone.
 * Markus Glaser - TCipriani (WMF)
 * Rachel Farrand + Claudia Garád- how to organize a kick-ass hackathon