Wikimedia Developer Summit/2017/Program

Schedule

Wikimedia Developer Summit consists of two days of pre-scheduled and unconference sessions and a totally unscheduled third day to Get Stuff Done. The spaces available are described in the Room setup page.

All times given are in Pacific Standard Time (UTC-8)

Monday, January 9th

Registration, Breakfast & Unconference Planning Lobby & Ventana | 8:30 am – 9:30 am (16:30 – 17:30 UTC)

Opening, Welcome! Ventana | 9:30 – 10:05 am (17:30 – 18:05 UTC)

Ward Cunningham: Has our success made it hard to see your own contribution? Ventana | 10:05 am – 11:05 am (18:05 – 19:05 UTC) Remote attendees: View recording on Commons Participate in discussion on #wmhack

Break Lobby | 11:05 am – 11:20 am (19:05 – 19:20 UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey top 10 ideas and Q&A Ventana | 11:20 am – 12:30 pm (19:20 – 20:30 UTC) View slides on Commons View recording on Commons

The future of Wikidata Query Service Hawthorne | 11:20 am – 12:30 pm (19:20 – 20:30 UTC) Remote attendees: View recording on Commons Participate in discussion on #wmhack Session notes here

Unconference: Newcomer-friendly edit-review tools: help imagine what that looks like Prince | 11:20 am – 12:30 pm (19:20 – 20:30 UTC) Remote attendees: View recording on Commons Participate in discussion on #wikimedia-tech Session notes here

Unconference: Working with the fancy old MediaWiki API Chapel Hill | 11:20 am – 12:30 pm (19:20 – 20:30 UTC) Session notes here

Unconference session: DO NOT EDIT ME Cyprus | 11:20 am – 12:30 pm (19:20 – 20:30 UTC)

Lunch Lobby | 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm (20:30 – 21:30 UTC)

Wikitext 2.0 Ventana | 1:30 pm – 2:40 pm (21:30 – 22:40 UTC) Remote attendees: View recording on Commons Session notes here

Labsdbs for WMF tools and contributors: get more data, faster Hawthorne | 1:30 pm – 2:40 pm (21:30 – 22:40 UTC) Remote attendees: View recording on Commons Session notes here

Unconference: Online Reader Engagement & Proto-Editor Onboarding Prince | 1:30 pm – 2:40 pm (21:30 – 22:40 UTC) Remote attendees: View recording on Commons Participate in discussion on #wmhack Session notes here

Unconference: Tools for curating and organizing editing work: what has been done and where to go next Chapel Hill | 1:30 pm – 2:40 pm (21:30 – 22:40 UTC) Remote attendees: Session notes here

Unconference: Better recommending of tasks suitable for new technical contributors Cyprus | 1:30 pm – 2:40 pm (21:30 – 22:40 UTC) Remote attendees: Session notes here

Break Lobby | 2:40 pm – 2:50 pm (22:40 – 22:50 UTC)

Media, Visualizations, and Layout Ventana | 2:50 pm – 4:00 pm (22:50 – 00:00 UTC) Remote attendees: Session notes here View recording on Commons

Asynchronous processing in production: one queue to rule them all Hawthorne | 2:50 pm – 4:00 pm (22:50 – 00:00 UTC) Remote attendees: View recording on Commons Participate in discussion on #wmhack Session notes here

Unconference: Hacking Session: Learn to make new notification types Prince | 2:50 pm – 4:00 pm (22:50 – 00:00 UTC) Remote attendees: View recording on Commons Participate in discussion on #wikimedia-tech Session notes here

Unconference: Developer Wishlist Chapel Hill | 2:50 pm – 4:00 pm (22:50 – 00:00 UTC) Remote attendees: Session notes here View recording on Commons

Unconference: ReviewStream: Improving edit-review tools through a better data feed Cyprus | 2:50 pm – 4:00 pm (22:50 – 00:00 UTC) Remote attendees: Session notes here

Afternoon Snack Break Lobby | 4:00 pm – 4:20 pm (00:00 – 00:20 UTC)

Platforms are Products too! Ventana | 4:20 pm – 5:30 pm (00:20 – 01:30 UTC) Session notes View recording on Commons

Bringing "Enterprise MediaWiki" to the Wikimedia Foundation Hawthorne | 4:20 pm – 5:30 pm (00:20 – 01:30 UTC) Remote attendees: View recording on Commons Participate in discussion on #wmhack Session notes here

Unconference: Cross-wiki templates, translatable, reusable, manageable   Prince | 4:20 pm – 5:30 pm (00:20 – 01:30 UTC) Remote attendees: View recording on Commons Participate in discussion on #wikimedia-tech Session notes here

Unconference session: DO NOT EDIT ME! Chapel Hill | 4:20 pm – 5:30 pm (00:20 – 01:30 UTC)

Unconference: Support global preferences Cyprus | 4:20 pm – 5:30 pm (00:20 – 01:30 UTC) Remote attendees: Session notes here

Social Event Wikimedia Foundation Office, 5th Floor | 6:00 pm (02:00 UTC) | Small Group Dinners! Click for more information

Tuesday, January 10th

Breakfast and Unconference Planning Room 1 | 9:00 am – 9:30 am (17:00 – 17:30 UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Technology and Product Q&A (view proposed questions) Ventana | 9:30 am – 10:40 am (17:30 – 18:40 UTC) Remote attendees: View recording on Commons Participate in discussion on #wmhack Session notes here

Break Lobby | 10:40 am – 11:00 am (18:40 – 19:00 UTC)

What should an AI do you for you? Building an AI Wishlist Ventana | 11:00 am – 12:10 pm (19:00 – 20:10 UTC) Remote participants: View recording on Commons participate in discussion on #wikimedia-ai Session notes here

Integrating MediaWiki (and other services) with dynamic configuration Hawthorne | 11:00 am – 12:10 pm (19:00 – 20:10 UTC) Remote attendees: View recording on Commons Participate in discussion on #wmhack Session notes here

Unconference: Next step towards multi-content revisions. By: Daniel Kinzler Cyprus | 11:00 am – 12:10 pm (19:00 – 20:10 UTC) Remote attendees: Session notes View recording on Commons

Unconference: Games and students contests. By: Racso (Oscar F. Gómez) Chapel Hill | 11:00 am – 12:10 pm (19:00 – 20:10 UTC) Remote attendees: Session notes here View recording on Commons

Unconference: MediaWiki history for analytics. By: Milimetric, Joal, Mforns Prince | 11:00 am – 12:10 pm (19:00 – 20:10 UTC) Remote attendees: View recording on Commons Session notes here

Lunch Lobby | 12:10 – 1:10 pm (20:10 – 21:10 UTC)

Better code review processes for reviewers Ventana | 1:10 pm – 2:20 pm (21:10 – 22:20 UTC) Remote attendees: Session notes here View recording on Commons

Algorithmic dangers and transparency -- Best practices Hawthorne | 1:10 pm – 2:20 pm (21:10 – 22:20 UTC) Remote attendees: View recording on Commons Participate in discussion on #wikimedia-ai Session notes here

Unconference: Redesigning Special:Search. By: Birgit Müller, Dan Garry Cyprus | 1:10 pm – 2:10 pm (21:10 – 22:10 UTC) Remote attendees: Participate in discussion on #wmhack Session notes here View recording on Commons

Unconference: An API for monitoring dumps. Chapel Hill | 1:10 pm – 2:10 pm (21:10 – 22:10 UTC) Remote attendees: Participate in discussion on #wmhack Session notes here Slides here View recording on Commons

Unconference: Create UX/UI hub. By: Moushira Prince | 1:10 pm – 2:10 pm (21:10 – 22:10 UTC) Remote attendees: View recording on Commons Participate in discussion on #wmhack Session notes here

Break Lobby | 2:20 pm – 2:30 pm (22:20 – 22:30 UTC)

Scaling the Wikimedia database schema Ventana | 2:30 pm – 3:40 pm (22:30 – 23:40 UTC) View recording on Commons Session notes

Developing community norms for vital bots and tools Hawthorne | 2:30 pm – 3:40 pm (22:30 – 23:40 UTC) Remote attendees: View recording on Commons Participate in discussion on #wmhack Session notes here

Unconference: Fixing non-latin fragment identifiers in MediaWiki URLs. By: Ryan Kaldari Cyprus | 2:30 pm – 3:40 pm (21:10 – 22:10 UTC) Remote attendees: Session notes here

Annotations. By: cscott/lokal_profil Chapel Hill | 2:30 pm – 3:40 pm (21:10 – 22:10 UTC) Remote attendees: Session notes here View recording on Commons

Unconference: Where to surface AI in Wikimedia projects?. By: Corey Floyd Prince | 2:30 pm – 3:40 pm (21:10 – 22:10 UTC) Remote attendees: View recording on Commons Session notes here

Break Lobby | 3:40 pm – 4:00 pm (23:40 – 0:00 UTC)

First Tech Debt Bash Ventana | 4:00 pm – 5:10 pm (00:00 – 01:10 UTC) Remote attendees: Session notes here View recording on Commons

Actions to grow the diversity of our technical community Hawthorne | 4:00 pm – 5:10 pm (00:00 – 01:10 UTC) Remote attendees: View live broadcast Participate in discussion on #wmhack Session notes here

Unconference: MediaWiki in translatewiki.net. By: Raymond Cyprus | 4:00 – 5:10 pm (00:00 – 01:10 UTC) Remote attendees: Participate in discussion on #wmhack Session notes here View recording on Commons

Unconference: Interacting with the user (datasets, tables, graphs, localization, dynamic content). By: Yuri Chapel Hill | 4:00 – 5:10 pm (00:00 – 01:10 UTC) Remote attendees: Participate in discussion on #wmhack Session notes here View recording on Commons

Get Stuff Done Day Information / Open Mic for Participants Ventana | 5:10 pm – 5:30 pm (01:10 – 01:30 UTC)

Social Event Wikimedia Foundation Office, 5th Floor | 6:00 pm (02:00 UTC) | Click for more information

Wednesday, January 11th

Get Stuff Done Day planning Ventana | 9:00 am - 10:00 am (17:00 – 18:00 UTC)

Get Stuff Done All rooms | 10:30 am – 12:30 pm (18:30 – 20:30 UTC)

Lunch Lobby | 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm (20:30 – 21:30 UTC)

Get Stuff Done All rooms | 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm (21:30 – 00:30 UTC)

Wikimedia Developer Summit Show & Tell + Closure Ventana | 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm (00:30 – 01:30 UTC) Remote attendees: View recording on Commons Participate in discussion on #wmhack Session notes here

Social Event Wikimedia Foundation Office, 5th Floor | 6:00 pm (02:00 UTC) | Click for more information

Social Events

On all three days for the social events, shuttles will pick participants from the Developer Summit venue (Golden Gate) and will make one stop at the Wikimedia Foundation Office around 6 pm.

Monday, January 9th

Drinks and a relaxed environment will be available for all the Developer Summit participants while people self-organize into their groups for Small Group Dinners. The space will be available for participants to socialize and work after small group dinners as well.

Tuesday, January 10th

Developer Summit Party at the Wikimedia Foundation! Yummy dinner, local beer brewers, music, and late-night Karaoke (starting at 8:30). Don't miss this night!

Wednesday, January 11th

Meet WMF with Indian food & drinks at the Wikimedia Foundation office! All WMF staff (including those not taking part in the Developer Summit) will be invited to mingle with Dev Summit attendees for a final evening before we say goodbye.