Hello,
I am currently drafting a short document about what is a Mediawiki Hackathon. Could you please help me by pinpointing to me some of the greatest / coolest tools or achievements that were made during previous Wikimedia Hackathon?
Best regards, Sylvain.
For the last one there is https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=65005&hide_reso... ; I don't remember how many had an "achievements" session with associated notes archived on the wiki, but you can check. ;-)
Nemo
2014-10-28 15:41 GMT+01:00 Sylvain Boissel sylvain.boissel@wikimedia.fr:
Hello,
I am currently drafting a short document about what is a Mediawiki Hackathon.
Just curious, what is this document for?
Slightly related:
Publish the evaluation of the Wikimedia hackathon 2014 in Zurich https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T652
Lessons learned from Wikimania 2014 hackathon https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T768
Sylvain Boissel sylvain.boissel@wikimedia.fr writes:
I am currently drafting a short document about what is a Mediawiki Hackathon. Could you please help me by pinpointing to me some of the greatest / coolest tools or achievements that were made during previous Wikimedia Hackathon?
The real "achievement" of the Wikimedia Hackathon are not individual, identifiable products that you can now see shipping on Wikimedia sites.
Instead, I would argue (and, this, as a person who prefers to work remotely) that the achievement of the Hackathons are better social bonds between MediaWiki developers. For example, I brought my son to the last Hackathon in Zurich and introduced him to some core MW developers.
This didn't result in any amazing tool or achievement that I can point to, but I hope it showed other developers how their work can affect developers outside their normal circles.
Bottom line: I don't think what you should be looking for are outcomes that produce new tools. Instead, how do these hackathons help people who usually are not in the same location connect with others?
Reading this blog post by Lila is highly recommended: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/15/hacker-osmosis-ideas-european-hackathon...
In general I agree with Mark :)
Best
On 10/29/14, Mark A. Hershberger mah@nichework.com wrote:
Sylvain Boissel sylvain.boissel@wikimedia.fr writes:
I am currently drafting a short document about what is a Mediawiki Hackathon. Could you please help me by pinpointing to me some of the greatest / coolest tools or achievements that were made during previous Wikimedia Hackathon?
The real "achievement" of the Wikimedia Hackathon are not individual, identifiable products that you can now see shipping on Wikimedia sites.
Instead, I would argue (and, this, as a person who prefers to work remotely) that the achievement of the Hackathons are better social bonds between MediaWiki developers. For example, I brought my son to the last Hackathon in Zurich and introduced him to some core MW developers.
This didn't result in any amazing tool or achievement that I can point to, but I hope it showed other developers how their work can affect developers outside their normal circles.
Bottom line: I don't think what you should be looking for are outcomes that produce new tools. Instead, how do these hackathons help people who usually are not in the same location connect with others?
-- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-271-1084
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