Wikimedia Hackathon 2015/Lessons Learned

This page is a combination of feedback from a survey sent to participants and ideas from the organizers.

This page will focus heavily on improvements for next time and things that went poorly. However remember that 97.5% of the people that responded to the feedback survey stated that their overall experience with the hackathon was either "Positive" or "Very Positive."

Suggested changes for the next Wikimedia Hackathon

(more coming soon)

Background on Feedback Survey

 * rfarrand & acella created the feedback survey
 * The Feedback Survey was sent out to participants on June 4th, 2015
 * The Feedback Survey closed on August 12th, 2015
 * The survey received 81/200 responses (40.5% response rate)

Considerations for Next Year
This section is based on the fill-in-the-blank/comment sections of the feedback form. Some of these comments will be contradictory. We are mostly trying to include common themes and issues that were felt by groups of people. This section is a bit more subjective than the #Data section below.

(more coming soon)

Data
(planning to reformat this section, but if you are reading it now the data is formatted as: Answer, # of people responding with that answer, % of responses that answer got out of everyone who answered that question)

Supporting Newbies
(Only people who were attending a Wikimedia Hackathon for the first time were directed to answer this question)