Hackathon
Wikimania Hackathon will take place July 10-11, 2012, as a pre-conference event before Wikimania. The hackathon will be in the Marvin Center at George Washington University.
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[edit] About
Hackathons ("Hacking days") have been held previously at Wikimania 2005 (Frankfurt), 2006 (Boston), 2007 (Taipei), 2009 (Buenos Aires), and 2011 (Haifa), and various other hackathons and developer meetings.
Interested technologists and hackers of all backgrounds are welcome at the Wikimania hackathon. Prior experience with the MediaWiki software is not required. Translators with a linguistic background who can help improve language support for Wikimedia technology projects are also needed.
[edit] Topics
The two main tracks: INTRO and SPRINT.
[edit] Intro
If you're new to Wikimedia technology, we'll have a few focused, hands-on workshops to teach you and get you started.
- Writing templates in mw:Lua scripting -- teacher needed
- Writing user scripts and Gadgets with JavaScript -- teacher needed
- .... What do you want to learn?
[edit] Sprint
If you already know MediaWiki, Gadgets, bots, or another part of Wikimedia's tech, and you have a specific goal that you want to work on with others, list it here with your name! Specifics are best -- state your goal.
- ...
[edit] Side meetings
- WALRUS Congress of Wiki-Americans -- NOT part of the hackathon
[edit] Interested
- Note: Signing up here does not register you for conference, but helps us to plan the hackathon. Conference registration is open.
- Aude - interested in fixing accessibility bugs, also in maps, data, ...
Never really hacked before, but I'm interested in giving it a go this year. CT Cooper 11:41, 30 January 2012 (UTC)- Balajijagadesh interested in helping to translate to Tamil Language and get an experience of Hackathon
- Sumana Harihareswara - organizing.
- Jonas Xavier - I wanna help, I have experience in Python, Databases(Mysql, Postgresql, MongoDb) and statistics using raw data.
- Dthomsen8 How to use Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser, especially how to update/replace templates, and how to use other Wiki tools
- Abdul Rauf Translation
- Hackathons and sprints have always helped GU WP. And I wanna come back for it :) Rangilo Gujarati (talk) 08:00, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
- JohnnyCK28 (talk) 12:32, 13 March 2012 (UTC) - have some background in web programming. Interested in coming to learn something new.
- If I go to Wikimania, I'll of course participate in the hackathon :) SPQRobin (talk) 21:23, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
- Zellfaze (talk) 14:20, 16 March 2012 (UTC) I am highly interested in attending this, but might not be able to take another 2 days off work. I'll see what I can do though.
- Siebrand (talk) 04:22, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
- Piyush.Aggarwal (talk)
- Edsu (talk) 12:48, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
- Valid entry (talk) 06:11, 25 March 2012 (UTC) With decades of professional programming experience in multiple languages (including languages I created complete with development environment with features a decade in advance of today's IDEs), I am happy to come share what I know and know what you will share. Norman T. Thornton
- Dsvyas (talk) 23:11, 2 April 2012 (UTC) Not a hacker, but would love to participate. Had visited Hackathon while in WikiConference India last year, and it helped my Gujarati wiki projects. Have some more ideas for our development, so need a platform.
- dominicskywalker (talk) 5:39, 4 April 2012 (UTC) I have some program experence with HTML, and BASIC, but I would like to learn some more about Wikimedia, and everything to learn in the Hackathon.
- Jasonspriggs (talk) 01:17, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
- Shujenchang (talk) 14:18, 16 April 2012 (UTC) I'm a hacker from China, and my first hacking was in my age of 12, I will meet everyone if my visa is passed.
- --វ័ណថារិទ្ធ (Vantharith) (talk) 06:29, 21 April 2012 (UTC) - Will be there for sure! I don't have any or much experiences with hacking or programming, but have been working on Khmer Wikipedia project. I will be seeking a lot of helps from you guys!
- Salah Almhamdi (Salah Almhamdi) I will contribute by translation 41.230.244.157 21:54, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
- Pfhayes (talk) 19:46, 26 April 2012 (UTC) Would love to attend to hack on mobile
- Rehman: Not familiar with MediaWiki or most of the stuff mentioned above, but quite okay with templates and wikicoding (example). Interested in attending my first Hackathon and learning more about MediaWiki. Rehman (talk) 07:35, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
- Ganesh: Would love to enhance knowledge in MediaWiki and wiki tools.--Ganesh Paudel (talk) 00:14, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
- dimi_z My main game is languages and translations but I do understand and enjoy code. I will for sure attend some workshops teaching wiki code and could help with anything that concerns linguistics. --Dimi z (talk) 22:01, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
- Kolossos (talk) I'm working on the cooperation between Wikimedia and OpenStreetMap, so I can give an introduction and can show corners where interesting map things are to do.
