Wikimedia Developer Summit/2018

For the next event, see: Wikimedia Technical Conference/2019.

Wikimedia Developer Summit: Technology for the Movement Strategy

The annual meeting to push the evolution of MediaWiki and other technologies supporting the Wikimedia movement.

January 22-23, 2018 - David Brower Center, Berkeley, California, USA

Lessons Learned from the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2018 Feedback Survey can be found here: Wikimedia Developer Summit/2018/Lessons Learned

Overview

The intention of this year’s Summit is to provide input for Phase 2 of the movement strategy process. Each session will produce a recommendation for inclusion in the Phase 2 process. Read the Thematic overview here. Participants of this event agree to follow the Friendly Space Policy and the Code of Conduct for Wikimedia Technical Spaces.

Registration for the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2018 is closed and we are not able to accommodate any more participants.

Main topics

The program committee has been busy at work reviewing position statements themes and narrowing them down into main topic areas

Here is the final list of session topics for the Wikimedia Developer Summit. Each topic will have a small team of "Topic Leaders" those people will help facilitate around the topic before, during and after the Summit. The participants of each session are expected to share their thoughts and be active participants. We are looking for a two-way discussion and not a lecture type sessions. See communications to topic leaders here: Wikimedia Developer Summit/2018/Communications

• phab:T183315 - notes: Knowledge as a Service
• phab:T183312 - notes: Supporting Third-Party Use of MediaWiki
• phab:T183313 - notes: Evolving the MediaWiki Architecture
• phab:T183314 - notes: Next Steps for Languages and Cross Project Collaboration
• phab:T183317 - notes: Advancing the Contributor Experience
• phab:T183318 - notes: Growing the MediaWiki Technical Community
• phab:T183319 - notes: Embracing Open Source Software
• phab:T183320 - notes: Research Analytics and Machine Learning

We will have no more than two sessions at a time and we have created a scheduling algorithm that looks at the topics mentioned in people's position papers and will help us to schedule sessions side by side that don't have much participant interest overlap.

Links and Resources

Schedule

• Program
• Social Events

Logistics

• Transportation
• Daily Menus

Participate

• Participants, Position Statements, and Keynote speakers
• Purpose and desired results of the Summit - guidance for session organizers and participants.
• All volunteers who requested a scholarship and have been approved to attend have also been approved for that scholarship.
• Summary of survey requests from Participants
• Facilitation

Resources

• Friendly Space Policy
• Code of Conduct for Wikimedia Technical Spaces
• Note taking guidelines
• Emergency Services

Organizing Team / Program Committee

Organizing team

• 
  Rachel Farrand: Event Manager, program Committee facilitation (rfarrandwikimedia.org)
• 
  Deb Tankersley: Program Committee facilitation
• 
  Joel Aufrecht: Program Committee facilitation
• 
  Sarah Rodlund: Administration lead
• 
  Megan Neisler: Administration
• 
  Lani Goto: Administration
• 
  Melody Kramer: Communications
• 
  Nick Wilson: Documentation & Wiki

Program Committee

• 
  Victoria Coleman: CTO of the WMF, Program Committee lead
• 
  Moriel Schottlender, Senior Software Developer, Global Collaboration, WMF
• 
  Derk-Jan Hartman: Volunteer MediaWiki developer and Wikipedian
• 
  Matanya Moses, allround Wikimedian, Israel
• 
  Lydia Pintscher: Product Manager of Wikidata, WMDE
• 
  Santhosh Thottingal: Senior Software Engineer, Global Collaboration, WMF
• 
  Raimond Spekking: Freelance MediaWiki developer and Wikipedian
• 
  Daniel Kinzler: Principal Platform Engineer at WMDE, Chair of TechCom
• 
  Cindy Cicalese: Product Manager of the MediaWiki platform
• 
  Timo Tijhof: Principal Performance Engineer at the WMF, member of TechCom
• 
  Brion Vibber: Lead Software Architect at WMF, member of TechCom

Friendly Space Team

• 
  Lucie Kaffee
• 
  Rachel Farrand
• 
  Nick Wilson
• 
  Moriel Schottlender

Please help us to ensure an open and culturally friendly event. If you need to report anything you can talk with an of us in person or email wmds18fspwikimedia.org. We are here to help!

Participants of this event agree to follow the Friendly Space Policy and the Code of Conduct for Wikimedia Technical Spaces.

Previous summits

• Wikimedia Developer Summit/2017
• Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016
• MediaWiki Developer Summit 2015
• 2014 Architecture Summit
• 2013: All-Hands/Tech Days
• 2012 (Sept): All-Hands/Tech Days
• 2012 (Jan): San Francisco Hackathon
• Other All-Hands/Tech Days likely documented in the page history