Wikimedia Hackathon 2024/Connect
3 – 5 May 2024 | Tallinn, Estonia
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Fostering an Inclusive Environment[edit]
The Code of Conduct for Wikimedia's Technical Spaces and Friendly Space Policy, will be actively enforced across all facets of the event. This includes various platforms, discussion channels, and local meetups. Your adherence to these guidelines ensures a respectful and inclusive environment for all participants.
Engage in Conversations[edit]
Discover the following channels designed for connecting with fellow participants. While some may be more or less active throughout the year, they offer valuable opportunities for discussions and networking.
- Wikimedia Hackathon Telegram group
- Libera Chat IRC chat channel: #wikimedia-hackathon connect (the IRC and Telegram channels are bridged together so you only need to be in one)
- Talk page on MediaWiki.org
- The hashtag
#wmhackon Mastodon/the fediverse, Twitter, and other social media.
Participants list[edit]
The following participants have voluntarily contributed to this public list. If you are planning to join the hackathon, feel free to add your information below!
Please be aware that adding your details to this table is separate from completing the registration form. If you intend to participate in the onsite hackathon, make sure to complete the official registration process.
| Username | Projects: what do you plan to work on? | Topics/technologies where you can help | How to contact you | Languages you can speak |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HTriedman (WMF) | ML, privacy, and T&S-related projects | Differential privacy, machine learning | email: htriedman@wikimedia.org | en, zh, es |
| Edward | OSM/Wikidata Link (OWL Map) | Wikidata / OpenStreetMap | email: edward@4angle.com / telegram: edwardbetts | en |
| Doǵu | Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons/Wikidata | Gadgets / Extensions / OOUI / Codex / VueJS | email: ydogu@wikimedia.org.tr | en, tr |
| Annick green | Wikipedia, Kiwix4SchoolsProgram Wikidata | Kiwix4SchoolsProgram, Wikidata, reading wikipedia in the classroom | robertrugamba5@gmail.com | English, Kinyarwanda, Spanish, Swahili |
| Bernhard Krabina | Semantic MediaWiki | Semantic MediaWiki / Wikidata / Linked Open Data | matrix/element: @krabina:matrix.org, LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/krabina/ | en, de |
| Nemo / Federico | OAbot, anything else | L10n/i18n, translatewiki.net/Translate, CLDR, Wikimedia crosswiki matters, MediaWiki, pywikibot, open science, accessibility etc. | IRC: Nemo_bis / Other: https://federicoleva.eu/en/contact/ (feel free to contact if you want to share a room to save resources; I'll be at Citybox Tallinn from May 1st and as of 2024-04-27 we still have one bed available) | it, en |
| Udita | anything | Documentation/ code base | email: uditaa17644@gmail.com | Hindi, English |
| Rupam | Wikipedia | https://translatewiki.net | computz365@gmail.com | en, hi, as, bn |
| Deni | mediawiki/core | LanguageConverter | Signal: +45 52 88 28 03 or deni@deni.dk | en, sh (bs, hr, sr, cnr), da |
| Ollie Shotton (WMDE) | Wikibase REST API, mwcli, development environments | Wikibase REST API, OpenAPI, mwcli, development environments, docker | Telegram: @OutdoorAcorn | English |
| Jay Prakash | Toolforge tools | MediaWiki, Gadgets, Toolforge, CloudVPS | en, hi | |
| Novem Linguae | MediaWiki, extensions, gadgets, user scripts, bots | en, es | ||
| Waldyrious | Phorge, Matrix/IRC/Telegram bridging, LanguageConverter for ptwiki, new tools (Commons portrait categorization, Wikidata item deconflator) | Documentation, i18n | Telegram: waldyrious | en, pt, kea |
| Ferdi2005 | Bots, mobile apps and web tools | Telegram: ferdi2005 | it, en | |
| SStefanova (WMF) | Something WMCS related, probably | Toolforge, CloudVPS, Toolhub, Docs |
|
en, es, fr, se |
| User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE) | Wikidata and/or Toolforge things | SPARQL, Python, PHP | @LucasWerkmeister@wikis.world (Mastodon) | en, de, pt |
| User:Valerio Bozzolan | Phabricator/Phorge, bots, Wikidata, OpenStreetMap | PHP, SQL, JavaScript, GNU/Linux, docker | @boz@mastodon.uno (Mastodon) | en, it |
| Samwalton9 (WMF) | Content moderation tooling | Scoping, designing, communications, documentation. | swalton wikimedia.org
|
en |
| Nicolas VIGNERON | Helping others, creating/improving documentation, translation | Wikidata (including Lexemes), Wikisource or Wikifunctions | on wiki, Mastodon, BlueSky, etc. | fr, br, en |
| Jelto (WMF) | Presenting newest GitLab CI features and hacking on GitLab and Kubernetes | GitLab and GitLab CI, Kubernetes, Phabricator, Gerrit, Miscweb, Python, automation, o11y | on IRC or Slack @jelto, jwodstrcil@ wikimedia.org | en, de, es |
| Martin Urbanec (WMF) | Community configuration 2.0 | Anything Growth team related, MediaWiki development | Telegram: @urbanecm
IRC: urbanecm E-mail: murbanec@wikimedia.org |
en, cs |
| Kanahia123 | Wikimedia Commons App | Android, Unity, Version Control | kaushalkanahia@gmail.com | Hindi, English |
| BDavis (WMF) | Toolhub, event support | Toolforge, Cloud VPS, Toolhub, Python, Puppet, documentation | See meta:User:BDavis (WMF) | en |
| Roan Kattouw (WMF) | Migrating things to Codex | Codex, Vue, front-end development generally | IRC or Telegram: RoanKattouw
Email: roan@wikimedia.org |
English, Dutch, some German |
| Taavi-WMF | WMCS, Puppet, generally SRE related things | IRC, taavi@wikimedia.org, @taavi@wikis.world | fi, en | |
| DBrant (WMF) | Anti-vandalism tools, Dark mode on web | Mobile UX, Native apps, REST services | IRC: dbrant
Email: dbrant@wikimedia.org |
en, ru |
| SCardenas (WMF) | Moderator tools, including PageTriage and Automoderator | MediaWiki, Python, PHP, Automoderator | Email: scardenasmolinar@wikimedia.org | en, es |
| Olea | Tasks related with SMALL GLAM SLAM Pilot 1 like:
|
Wikidata, OpenRefine, Linux, who knows. | mailto:ismael@olea.org
https://twitter.com/olea https://floss.social/@olea https://t.me/ismaelolea |
es,en |
| JScherer-WMF | Wikipedia | anything design and/or usability related |
|
en, de |
| Éder Porto | Maps applications, Wikidata, Toolforge | Wikidata, Toolforge, documentation | eder.portowmnobrasil.org
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pt-br,en |
| Bhuvana Meenakshi |
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Technical documentation and localisation, Web Accessibility, 3d spatial application, JavaScript | bhuvanameenakshigmail.org
|
ta,hi,en |
| KHarlan (WMF) | Trust & Safety related projects | Development environments; testing; temp accounts | IRC: kostajh | en, de, el |
| Ideophagous | Toolforge and bots, also open to any other topics where I can learn something new | SPARQL, Python, Wikidata, Wikipedia, pywikibot | Telegram: @Ideophagous | ary, en, ar, fr, de |
| Bisel91 | Bots script | Android, Python, Wikidata, Wikipedia, pywikibot, SQL, PHP, JavaScript | Telegram: @bisel91 | ary, en, ar, fr |
| Jon Robson | Web related projects, fixing templates to work with night mode; Wikipedia Year in Review 2024! | Anything JS related. | @jdlrobson | en |
| MGerlach (WMF) | Improve tooling for working with Wikimedia data or ML models (examples) | Python, NLP/ML/AI, data, documentation | Telegram: @martingerlach
IRC: mgerlach E-mail: mgerlach@wikimedia.org |
en, de, pt |
| NicoleLBee | Toolhub, documentation, event support | Frontend development, VueJS, PHP, Python, documentation | E-mail: nicole.barnabee@gmail.com | en, de |
| Onyinyechi Onifade (WMF) | Event Coordination | E-mail: oonifade@wikimedia.org | en | |
| Ammar | mediawiki/core, Gadgets | MediaWiki, Python, PHP | @ammarpad | ha, en |
| Albertoleoncio | Toolforge, ProofreadPage extension | API, SQL, PHP, CSS, Python | Telegram/Wiki: @albertoleoncio | pt, en-3 |
| Tgr | Possibly GitGadgets, but interested in collaborating on other projects | MediaWiki | See user page | hu, en, de-1 |
| SSastry (WMF) | Plan to explore incremental Parsing experiments + available for Linter collaborations + assisting with adapting extensions for Parsoid | Parsoid, Linter | Email: ssastry@wikimedia.org, IRC: subbu | en, kn, hi |
| Krinkle (Timo Tijhof) | ResourceLoader, MediaWiki core, extensions, Gadgets. | IRC: Krinkle, Telegram: @Krinkle24,
Email: ttijhof@wikimedia.org, Mastodon: @krinkle@fosstodon.org |
nl, en, de-2 | |
| Dominique Labar | Toolkit wikidata, micro services, rdf, java object mapping, openrefine, wikibase, dump | wikidata | E-mail: dominique@wikimedia.be | fr, nl, en |
| Brennen Bearnes | Tentatively: Phabricator/Phorge and GitLab integration, code review tooling, stuff about where code lives and who owns it. | Phabricator/Phorge, GitLab, MediaWiki-Docker/dev-images, deployment | See user page | en |
| Christoph Jauera (WMDE-Fisch) | Projects related to WMDE Technical Wishes, Browsertests, Reusing references | Supporting Newcomers. All projects related to WMDE Technical Wishes. Maps, (Browser-)Tests. MediaWiki in general |
christoph.jauera@wikimedia.de Phabricator/Gerrit/IRC: WMDE-Fisch |
de, en |
| Dreamy Jazz - WBrown (WMF) | Anything CheckUser or mediawiki extensions | MediaWiki extensions and core | IRC: Dreamy_Jazz
Email: dreamyjazzwikipedia@gmail.com or wpgbrown@wikimedia.org |
en |
| Mahir256 | something related to Wikidata or Wikisource or both | Wikidata (particularly lexicographical data) and Wikisource (and some Wikifunctions) matters | mahir256 on Telegram, @mahir256@wikis.world on Mastodon | bn, en, es-3 |
| Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) | Wikidata related things, MassMessage, Userscripts | Wikidata, Lexemes documentation, Small wikis, keyboards for small languages | @masssly on Telegram | dag, ha, en |
| Abel Idoko | ||||
| Lewis Cawte (Lcawte) | Lcawte@user/Lcawte (IRC - Libera), @Lcawte (Discord/Telegram) | en | ||
| Multichill | No fixed plans, something with bots/sparql/wikidata/glam stuff? | nl,en | ||
| Hiperterminal | Wikipedia gender gap, Wikidata and public domain | Documentation, SQL, PHP, OpenRefine, | E-mail: david@conector.co, web: www.conector.red/david, Telegram: @hiperterminal | es,en, ca |
| Silvan Heintze (WMDE) | Wikidata REST API, Language models | Wikidata REST API, OpenAPI | E-Mail: silvan.heintze@wikimedia.de | de, en |
| Markus Glaser | Experimenting with LLM integration | BlueSpice, Automated testing, Integration MediaWiki with other software | E-Mail: markus.glaser@hallowelt.com | de, en |
| James Forrester (Jdforrester / Jdforrester (WMF)) | No particular plans; happy to help people get things done, as ever. | MediaWiki things, Codex/Vue things, Wikimedia production stuff, use of Gerrit / GitHub / GitLab, Wikifunctions/Abstract Wikipedia, etc. | IRC: James_F | en |
| Samwilson / SWilson (WMF) | Anything Wishlist-related, and Wikisource | MediaWiki, PHP, CommTech projects | @freosam on Telegram; samsamwilson.id.au; @samwilson@wikis.world
|
en |
| So9q | Wikidata related projects. I opened the following tickets: | Python, JavaScript | telegram: @dpriskorn | en |
| APaskulin (WMF) | JSDoc, MediaWiki | Documentation | Email: apaskulin@wikimedia.org
IRC or Telegram: apaskulin |
en |
| WFan (WMF) | MediaWiki, Documentation, PHP, JavaScript | MediaWiki, Documentation, PHP, JavaScript | Email: wfan@wikimedia.org
IRC: wfan |
en, zh |
| Andre Klapper (Malyacko) | Phabricator, docs, misc | Phabricator, Metrics, Docs | See user page | en |
| Christine Stone (WMF) | MediaWiki, docs, anything I can help with | Documentation, MediaWiki, PHP, JavaScript | Email: cstone@wikimedia.org
IRC: cstone |
en |
| Darafsh | Wikisource, Lexeme, and translation | https://translatewiki.net | Email: darafsh@hotmail.com
Telegram: t.me/Darafsh |
fa, en |
| Arlolra / ABreault (WMF) | Wikitext parsing, helping others | Parsoid, Linter | en, fr | |
| MAzevedo (WMF) | Experimenting and prototyping on mobile apps | iOS App | Email: mazevedo@wikimedia.org | en, pt |
| TheresNoTime and/or my work alter ego, TheresNoTime-WMF | Wishlist stuff, metrics (mainly GLAM), |
MediaWiki, PHP, JavaScript, Python | Email: theresnotime@wikimedia.org
IRC/Telegram: TheresNoTime |
en, de |
| Simon04 | locator-tool.toolforge.org, bldrwnsch.toolforge.org, OpenCartonaut, go-to-commons, Extension:MultimediaViewer | en, de | ||
| Matma Rex (Bartosz Dziewoński) | Improvements to Gerrit bots to make them work better with the "attention" feature | MediaWiki and extensions/skins | IRC: MatmaRex | pl, en |
| TheProtonade | Wikisource, looking to explore! | Wikisource, gadgets, tools | Telegram: @theproton | en, ml, hi, gu |
| MNeisler (WMF) | Creating PAWs notebook to explore citation usage, documentation and data analysis support | R, SQL, PAWS, Documentation | Email: mneisler@wikimedia.org
Telegram: @mneisler |
en |
| Tohaomg (also TohaomgBot) |
No concrete plans, but probably bots, gadgets, Community Wishlist, maybe Wikifunctions, maybe something AI related or anything that will seem interesting to me; mentoring others if needed | Bots, templates/modules, scripts/gadgets, web-scraping, geodata, SVG, SQL, Wikidata, etc | Telegram Skype: tohaomg anton.obozhyn@wikimedia.org.ua |
English, Ukrainian, Russian (reluctantly) |
| Robert Timm (WMDE) | Wikibase Suite, NLP experiments | Wikibase Suite, Hosting, Docker, Nix/NixOS, LLMs | robert.timm@wikimedia.de Telegram @rti42 |
en, de |
| KSarabia-WMF | Dark Mode | a11y, WikimediaEvents, EventLogger, Superset, JavaScript, Python | ksarabia@wikimedia.org | en |
| deb tankersley | Organizing Team | deb@wikimedia.org | en | |
| Moriel Schottlender | MW Track | MediaWiki, Frontend, PHP, JavaScript, Architectural advice | mschottlender@wikimedia.org | en |
| SD0001 | MediaWiki, gadgets, Toolforge | Discord: siddharthvp Telegram siddharthvp@gmail.com |
en, hi, ml, es-1 | |
| FAH | Full Stack Programmer | MediaWiki, Fullstack Programmer, PHP, JavaScript, C++, Database and System Analyst | fatmatugas@gmail.com | en, id |
| Nikerabbit | Translation and language support | translatewiki.net, MediaWiki (development and deployments), translation and language support | Nikerabbit in many places | fi, en |
| DWalden (WMF) | Something testing related | Local MediaWiki setup, testing | Email: dwalden@wikimedia.org IRC: dwalden | en |
| MWilliams (WMF) | Supporting anything design related and New Engagement Experiments | Design Systems and anything design related | Email: mwilliamswikimedia.org
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en |
| CWhite (WMF) | MediaWiki Prometheus metrics, libs/stats | Observability, metrics, logs | Email: cwhite@wikimedia.org IRC: cwhite | en |