Wikimedia Discovery/Retrospective-Hackathon-2015-06-12

Hackathon (Lyon)

Dan:

• Search Roundtable
  • Our timeslot competed with a NASA talk and something else popular
  • Low attendance, but Damon was there. Good conversation.
• At the hackathon in general
  • Talked more about WDQS, maps
  • Talked with Lydia about WD generally, as well as WDQS
  • Greg had insights
  • People were curious about the "Discovery" part
  • Good first run as a team to talk collectively.

Moiz:

• Met w/people like Nemo, talked about front page redesign
• Lots of notes. Nemo met Wes.
• Jon Katz was running user research sessions
  • One user said he never searches in wp--didn't know that feature even existed
• Attended a design session
• We made our presence felt

Wes:

• Met with several college students
• Distributed James's API docs
• Wes added cool map ideas to Dan's document
• David was also there. Nice to meet and interact with him.

Yuri:

• Graph Extension presentation went very well; lots of feedback
  • German wiki now has created good templates that were ported to other langs
    • e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:GraphChart
  • Someone wanted to create maps with graph ext for wikivoyage
• Worked with pywikibot community on minimalistic API specification
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Minimalistic_MW_API_Client_Lib_Specification
• Lots of maps conversations
  • Worked with 2 people who came to hackathon specifically to work on brining maps to Wikipedia
  • Started putting together list of all suggestions on mw.o discovery maps page
    • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap
• Hackathon closing ceremony (2 min per person) was excellent. Informative.

Erik:

• Spent most of time with David, learning elastic search internals

David:

• Spent most of time learning from Erik
• Met Wes, Dan, Yuri and Giuseppe. Very nice to meet everyone.

Wikimania (Mexico City)

• We have a session scheduled
• This Monday's presentation is prep for that one
• We should have a better presentation ready for wikimania than we did for the hackathon

Moiz:

• Wikimania is bigger
• Venues have a bit impact on how the events turn out
• We should be extra vigilant about what we will do, who will be there (on wikimania wiki)
• "50 shades of wiki" presentation (about reusing content)

Wes:

• Over next couple weeks, identify stuff we can demo
• Planning to attend education-related talks; how to use students in testing
• Whoever of us is in Mexico City should at least have a dinner together

Nik:

• Wikimania is exhausting, but worth it
• Maybe try to engage with outsiders more than people you normally work with (e.g. wmde)
• Last year heard lots of good ideas, several of which were implemented that afternoon
• People went away happy
• When you get active editors in a room, they will ask questions (some random)
• Make it clear what your role/interests are, and people will come to you

Tomasz:

• This is an opportunity to do more together as a team