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

• MediaWiki API Introduction：as web 2.0 trend...
  
  • Query API
    
  • http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/API
    
  • Python Bot Framework
• MediaWiki API application contest：a contest likes Google and Yahoo!'s, tries to attract hackers.
  • Wikipedia Gadget
  • Wikipedia Yahoo! Widget
• MediaWiki enhancement
  • Wikiwyg 
    • Ingy's AJAX version
    • Flash version
  • Collaboration editing/versioning
  • Site searching (Is there any plan to make Lucene available for other languages besides English?)
  • Improving Simplified-Traditional Chinese conversion
  • Audio/Video processing/streaming 
  • Community: from "Talk" page to forum/bbs with more a flexible reputation system.
  • Spam/Captcha
• MediaWiki system administration
  • Large scale data processing; please refers to
    • http://radar.oreilly.com/tag/database
    • http://labs.google.com/papers/bigtable.html
  • Load balancing
  • "The great wall" problem
    
• Wikipedia content applications
  • (Crosslingual) search: especially for translation/transliteration of named entities from Wikimedia contents.
  • (Crosslingual) question-answering: CLEF 2006 already has a pilot task WiQA.