User:Waldyrious/Hackathons/2013

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Wikimedia Hackathon 2013

Amsterdam, 24-26 May 2013

• Workshops:
  • Wikidata [fri 13:30]
  • Lua/Scribuntu [fri 14:30]
  • learn how to use Vagrant [sat 9:30]

    Also, try the install.php one-liner:

    rm -f LocalSettings.php && rm -f db/db.sqlite/my_wiki.sqlite && mkdir -p db/db.sqlite/ && touch db/db.sqlite/my_wiki.sqlite

    php maintenance/install.php WIKINAME USERNAME --pass=PASSWORD --dbtype=sqlite --dbpath=db/db.sqlite

    test it, and make sure these parameters work; add some documentation to the file and its Manual entry)

  • Toolserver --> Labs migration [sat 11:00]

• Get my Gerrit patchsets merged / clear my review queue

• bugzilla:42964 - Add support for more types of Flickr URLs to UploadWizard

• How to use the API + JS to make edits without reloading the page. See HotCat and Cat-a-lot for inspiration, and make a minimal working example.

• bugzilla:29488 - Make pages accessed from special:random display a redirect notice. Most useful for when a custom random link --e.g. Special:Random/talk-- is followed.
• Redirected files don't show the "redirected from" line

• Primerpedia

• Skins work with User:Felipe Schenone
  • gerrit:65319 (later superseded by gerrit:138795 by MatmaRex)
  • Google docs containing three main sections
    • The tasks planned for the hackathon
    • A survey of existing documentation about skins
    • A draft for an overview doc about MediaWiki skins (this ended up not going anywhere after the hackathon 😞)

• Questions:
  • Why does Special:Blocklist's wpOptions url parameter use []? That makes linking to it in wikitext not work correctly.
  • "Mark as patrolled" refers to a revision, right? I so, it shouldn't say "mark this page as patrolled"
  • What's the difference between MediaWiki:Sitesubtitle (seems to be only used in the CologneBlue skin), MediaWiki:Tagline and $wgExtraSubtitle (seems to only be used in SkinLegacy.php)? This section might have some insights.
  • Why doesn't Special:WhatLinksHere display entries in alphabetical order?
  • Why is Media: a virtual namespace rather than a parser function?
  • Is it possible to change the url when following a redirect? what are the drawbacks? cache invalidation? reload (new http request)?
  • would it be possible to enable transclusion of Special:Random?

• Maybe:
  • Flesh out Documentation organization proposal
  • Finish skin migration

• Pick stuff from my list of bugs to attack