Hackathon/Program
This is the program for the Wikimania Hackathon 2017 in Montreal.
All registered hackathon participants are welcome to edit the program directly with your own sessions now.
- If your session is an hour or less, please go ahead and schedule it yourself!
- Your session must link to an associated Phabricator task that is tagged to the #Wikimania-Hackathon-2017 project.
- Please try to keep your sessions to 55 minutes so your participants can get to another session. Also please have the room cleared in time for the participants from the session following yours to get settled and start on time.
- If you are scheduling a session for longer than an hour, need help editing the program, or need help with creating a task on Phabricator, please email rfarrand
wikimedia.org and siebrandkitano.nl for help (we want to make sure that the limited breakout room space is available for everyone).
Level 3 and Level 4 venue maps (the hackathon takes place in Ballroom West, Ballroom Center, Drummond East and Salon 7)
Tuesday August 8
18:00 - 19:00 Pre-Hackathon drop in for mentors. Meet Aaron, Rachel and other mentors, and learn about and discuss the plan for newcomers and coordinate the support. Meet at the Ballroom West and Center on level 4.
Wednesday August 9
Wednesday Sprints
Add your sprint name, location, and Phabricator task here! (You can find an hour-by-hour schedule of the hackathon break-out sessions below). Sprints will take place in the main hacking spaces, can be for any length of time, and organizers can add your table number once you arrive and get set up so that people can find you.
Wednesday Break-Out Sessions
| Color code | Newcomer-friendly sessions | I'm not a coder-friendly session |
|---|
| Room Name | Ballroom West (Level 4) | Ballroom Center (Level 4) | Drummond East (Level 3) | Salon 7 (Level 3) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Room Description | large hacking room with projector and mic | large hacking room | Large breakout room with projector
Session video recording is available in this room |
Smaller breakout room with projector |
| 9:00 | Hang out, socialize, meet other participants | |||
| 10:00 | Hackathon Opening | Hacking! | Rooms closed | |
| 11:00 | 11- 11:30: Mentors meeting
11:30 - 12:00: Personalized matching of newcomers to projects and mentors |
Overview of Wikimedia Tech for newcomers 11:00 - 11:30 | ||
| 12:00 | Hacking! | LUNCH (12:30 - 13:30) | ||
| 13:00 | How can I get ORES in my Wiki? | Let us talk parser hooks! | ||
| 14:00 | Hacking! | Improving MediaWiki - what to do, when you're new | Extension:Translate workshop: how to create translatable documentation | |
| 15:00 | Introduction to Wikimedia Cloud Services | TemplateData workshop: how to create ones on your wiki | ||
| 16:00 | Install Party for newcomers | Design FLOSS events for developers - what we've learned | Public TechCom meeting | |
| 17:00 | TechCom charter presentation and discussion | |||
| 18:00 | ||||
| 18:00 + | Hacking! | |||
- 5pm - 7pm Hackathon happy hour: drinks and small snacks served in hacking space. Hacking continues!
- No dinner - please see the Social Events page for a map with local restaurants
- hacking continues into the night 24 hours
Thursday August 10
Thursday Sprints
Add your sprint name, location and Phabricator task here! (You can find an hour-by-hour schedule of the hackathon break-out sessions below) Sprints will take place in the main hacking spaces, can be for any length of time, and organizers can add your table number once you arrive and get set up so that people can find you.
Thursday Break-Out Sessions
| Color code | Newcomer-friendly sessions |
| Room Name | Ballroom West (Level 4) | Ballroom Center (Level 4) | Drummond East (Level 3) | Salon 7 (Level 3) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Room Description | large hacking room with projector and mic | large hacking room | Large breakout room with projector | Small breakout room with projector |
| 9:00 | Hacking! | Wikispeech technical details and open questions | ||
| 10:00 | Still don't know what to work on? We will help you find a project! | Task and project management with Wikimedia Phabricator | What makes a high quality MediaWiki extension nice? | |
| 11:00 | Install Party for newcomers | Developers and MediaWiki: How to become BFFs? Part II | Hack on Wikidata Query UI (query.wikidata.org) | |
| 12:00 | LUNCH (12:30 - 13:30) | |||
| 13:00 | Hacking! | How to volunteer editing server config and get a code change into Ops repos | ||
| 14:00 | Hacking! | What do women want at a hackathon | We're in this together - "hacking" community culture | |
| 15:00 | WikiFactMine Workshop and Hacking | Creation of a Program Committee for Wikimedia developer events | ||
| 16:00 | ||||
| 17:00 | hackathon rooms close at 5pm | hackathon rooms close at 5pm | hackathon rooms close at 5pm | |
| Group Photo - Sixth floor terrace | ||||
- Hackathon rooms close at 5pm,
- main Wikimania welcome reception/dinner at Sheraton Hotel for registered attendees, 7-9 p.m.
Thursday - Sunday August 11 through 13
Smaller 24 hour hacking room available for hackathon participants: Salon 7 on level 3
Group Photo
The group photo will be on Thursday at 17:00 on the sixth floor terrace. Photographers welcome.
Hackathon Showcase
Sunday August 13: HACKATHON SHOWCASE: Ballroom West 16:00 - 17:00
Pick up your showcase cheat sheet at the Hackathon Help desk or in Salon 7 after the hackathon is over.