Wikimania 2007 Hacking Days call-for-help - Wiki-research-l

30 Oct 2006


      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.