Hi Arjuna,
We were really happy with the turnout and super excited that there was
so much interest from the dev community in India. We definitely want
to find ways to support and grow the community and do it again in the
near future, working hand-in-hand with the local Wikipedians on this.
Yes, it was the first one we did in India (and we kind of put it
together at the last minute) there's always room for improvement!
Also, if anybody is particular interested in mobile please contribute
to the meta page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects
and more info on research, as it particularly applies to India can be
found here (there is a link from the mobile project page from meta):
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile/Research
or if you don't know where to go with your feedback or ideas you can start here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mobile_Projects
Cheers,
Kul
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:58 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala
<arjunaraoc(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Thanks Kul for the update. I am glad to see the achievments.
Congratulations to all the participants. I too wanted to join but could
not because it was done in parallel with separate registration process. Hope
we can improve next time so that you have real Wikipedians user
perspective as well.
Cheers
Arjun
On Nov 30, 2011 3:45 AM, "Kul Wadhwa" <kwadhwa(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Crosspost to the Wikimedia India Mailing list.
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We recently completed a Hackathon in India where the themes were:
* localization
* mobile
* offline
In summary, over one weekend more than 50 volunteers from many parts
of India added their hard work and insights to the technical
foundation of Wikipedia. In the mobile area alone, volunteers
contributed to 17 features, as listed here (features that were worked
on are marked with an "H"):
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/features#India_Hackathon
We also got support and input from most of the major mobile operators
in India about how to make our user experience better. Free access to
Wikipedia is moving forward on a number of fronts, as we identified
several forms of collaboration, not just in the form of Wikipedia
Zero. For example, there seems to be widespread interest in using an
RSS feed of the Article of the Day, and the top 5 languages in India
are important.
This was our first hackathon in India and all in all, it was a
resounding success.
For those of you who were at the event, many thanks and
congratulations for your achievements in such a short period of time!
We certainly hope you continue to stay involved and continue to
contribute.
IRC is a good way for developers to stay in touch. Join
wikimedia-mobile on
irc.freenode.net.
Regards,
Phil
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