If an event is specific to a piece of software then by all means let's call it after such piece of software e.g.
Wikipedia Mobile Hackathon
(or DevCamp, if we decide that is a better default than Hackathon)
On 01/23/2013 10:46 AM, Alolita Sharma wrote:
Tomasz has a good point. Language tools and apps don't use Mediawiki exclusively either.
This is one of the reasons we used Wikipedia Engineering instead of Mediawiki for our Bangalore DevCamp naming.
It is easy for WMF teams to organize events containing the Wikipedia word. Less so for your average local promoter. This is one practical reason to default to "MediaWiki" and then be flexible with exceptions.
But there is another point here, which is how narrowed / inclusive are we with the "MediaWiki" word. You can see it as the name of a CMS. You can see it as a name of a wider community. Looking at the content at mediawiki.org it is obvious that such community does a lot more things than developing a CMS.
Why not calling all those things under the MediaWiki umbrella, and refer to the CMS as MediaWiki Core?
We know that Wikipedia / Wikimedia / MediaWiki confuses people systematically. Also the people attending our technical events. Simplifying might be inaccurate for some oldtimers, but it can be helpful for most of the newcomers we aim to reach out with these events.
-Alolita
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
MediaWiki Hackathon City
As a team that doesn't exclusively work within MediaWiki what would you suggest for naming if someone wanted to run a hackathon on our mobile apps? Our mobile apps are fully decoupled from mw and only use its API.