Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikimania 2007 Hacking Days call-for-help

Hello Mike,

Apologies, but it was unclear to me whether there is a wiki page set up for the 2007 hacking days. If there is no such page, can you set up one so that it is easier to follow plans and discuss programmes ?

One feedback I had from hacking days 2006 was that it was necessary to have more cool time in small groups, and less "academic-type" presentations in front of 20 people. In short, they need not only a room with some presentations going on, but also a nice and cosy place to sit, with drinks etc...

Ant

Tian-Jian "Barabbas" Jiang@Gmail wrote:

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

Good day. I am Mike Tian-Jian Jiang ( 

http://www.linkedin.com/in/barabbas ), a team member of wikimania 2007. I'm trying to arrange Hacking Days currently, here's some rough plan that needs your precious suggestions.

We would like to invite experts like you to provide speech and to 

encourage hackers involving MediaWiki/Wikimedia development.

Please let me know if you have any advise to these outlines. For 

academic professionals, we will also hold a Conference for oral and poster paper presentations.

Also please forward this mail to whom may be interested in.

Thank you very much!

Sincerely,

Mike

Hacking Days Agenda plan:

* Wikimania 2006:
      o http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hacking_Days
        (Schedule MindMap is missing......)
      o http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hacking_Days_Extras
* Wikimania 2005
      o http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2005_hacking_days or
      o http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2005:Hacking_Days

* MediaWiki API Introduction：as web 2.0 trend...
      o Query API
      o http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/API
      o Python Bot Framework
* MediaWiki API application contest：a contest likes Google and
  Yahoo!'s, tries to attract hackers.
      o Wikipedia Gadget
      o Wikipedia Yahoo! Widget
* MediaWiki enhancement
      o Wikiwyg 
            + Ingy's AJAX version
            + Flash version
      o Collaboration editing/versioning
      o Site searching (Is there any plan to make Lucene available
        for other languages besides English?)
      o Improving Simplified-Traditional Chinese conversion
      o Audio/Video processing/streaming 
      o Community: from "Talk" page to forum/bbs with more a
        flexible reputation system.
      o Spam/Captcha
* MediaWiki system administration
      o Large scale data processing; please refers to
            + http://radar.oreilly.com/tag/database
              <http://docs.google.com/%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20http://blog.ijliao.info/archives/2006/05/07/2267/>

            + http://labs.google.com/papers/bigtable.html
              <http://docs.google.com/%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20http://labs.google.com/papers/bigtable.html>

      o Load balancing
      o "The great wall" problem
* Wikipedia content applications
      o (Crosslingual) search: especially for
        translation/transliteration of named entities from Wikimedia
        contents.
      o (Crosslingual) question-answering: CLEF 2006 already has a
        pilot task WiQA.

---

---

Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l