Wikimedia Hackathon 2024/Projects
Hackathon Project Information
Browse the projects already proposed on Phabricator for the 2024 Hackathon or the Project page for additional project ideas.
You can pitch your project idea during the opening ceremony and share outcomes in a final event showcase. Feel free to use the hackathon channels to promote your proposed sessions & projects and recruit potential attendees or collaborators.
The Code of Conduct for Wikimedia's Technical Spaces and Friendly Space Policy, will be actively enforced across all facets of the event. This includes various platforms, discussion channels, and local meetups. Your adherence to these guidelines ensures a respectful and inclusive environment for all participants.
Local communities are also welcome to organize pre-hackathon events, watch-parties or meetups in their region. More information about organization and funding is available on the satellite events page.
Project Focus Areas
Participants are completely free to choose their own project(s) to work on during the event. If you are looking to hack on a project but don't have any ideas yet - you can explore the proposed ideas in the lists of projects below:
Existing projects to hack on
- Mobile contributions to Wikimedia Commons: Taking pictures for Wikipedia is one of the simplest ways of contributing. We have a fantastic team of volunteer developers from all over the world working on the Wikimedia Commons mobile android app. A lot of work still remains to improve code quality, add some of the most requested new features and promote the app among potential users. We need a team with a very diverse set of skills to keep making this app better.
- Community Wishlist 2023: The Community Wishlist Survey is an annual survey allowing Wikimedia project contributors to propose and vote for tools and platform improvements. These ideas reflect the challenges Wikimedia communities, projects, and organizations face. You can choose a proposal from the 2023 survey results (suggested "hackathonable" tasks have been marked in the table). Some of these wishes promoted during a recent Community Wishathon, remain valid and are ideal for Hackathon newcomers, particularly those from the local community seeking beginner-level projects.
- Developer wishlist 2017: The Developer Wishlist Survey was conducted in 2017 to address the challenges faced by the MediaWiki developers and Wikimedia's technical community related but not limited to, the MediaWiki core software, APIs, developer environment, data dumps, server infrastructure, contribution processes, and documentation. There are still many technical wishes remaining from this list; you can choose one from this workboard on Phabricator or view a list of all the results.
- Wikidata project ideas: They are around building games, tools for editing, developing interactive tours and tutorials, and more. These projects are small-sized, easy to begin, and can be completed during the Hackathon.
- Projects emerging from the Developer track of Wiki Workshop 2023, supported by Wikimedia Research community members.
- Browse the projects proposed on Phabricator left over from the 2023 Hackathon in Athens.
- Browse the projects proposed on Phabricator that have been posted for this year's Hackathon.
Project Focused Tracks at the Hackathon
Have a new idea for a project?
If you have an idea for a project or an existing project you'd like help with, please either create a new task in Phabricator, or add the Wikimedia-Hackathon-2024 project tag to an existing task! Check out the Phabricator Help page if you have any issues.