[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Quick Mumbai hackathon followup

[Sumana Harihareswara]

For completeness, a copy of the message I just sent to the Wikimedia
developers' email list,
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l .

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Subject: Quick Mumbai hackathon followup
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:28:41 -0500
From: Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah at wikimedia.org>
Organization: Wikimedia Foundation
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l at lists.wikimedia.org>

Earlier this month, Wikimedia staff and volunteers got together in
Mumbai, India to work on mobile, offline, and
internationalisation/localisation.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/India_Hackathon_2011

Photos are up:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Victorgrigas#Hackathon_Mumbai_2011

Some notes on our outcomes, which included many new localisations for
Kiwix and new input methods for MediaWiki, readying Narayam for
Wikimedia Incubator, a prototype onscreen keyboard built in Narayam,
Wikimedia Mobile ready for translation, new UI prototypes for language
selection, and more:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/India_Hackathon_2011/Schedule_notes#Day_1_outcomes

And I haven't even touched on mobile!  An update specifically on mobile
progress at the hackathon:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2011-November/005200.html
-- Summary from Phil Chang:

> In summary, over one weekend more than 50 volunteers from many parts of
> India added their hard work and insights to the technical foundation of
> Wikipedia. In the mobile area alone, volunteers contributed to 17 features,
> as listed here (features that were worked on are marked with an "H"):
> 
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/features#India_Hackathon
> 
> We also got support and input from most of the major mobile operators in
> India about how to make our user experience better. Free access to
> Wikipedia is moving forward on a number of fronts, as we identified several
> forms of collaboration, not just in the form of Wikipedia Zero. For
> example, there seems to be widespread interest in using an RSS feed of the
> Article of the Day, and the top 5 languages in India are important.

I'm asking Emmanuel to send an offline-related summary to
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l .  And I'm
predicting the localization folks will have a summary in their next
showcase; watch
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n .

This was the largest Wikimedia tech outreach event I've been a part of,
with 80 or so new folks learning and becoming contributors.  Thanks to
the Wikimedia staffers who came, for -- as Alolita put it -- "leading
project teams to do some nice development, UI design, testing and
accomplishing a lot in a short blip of time."  Thanks to the local
community and chapter for putting on Wiki Conference India, which
happened at the same time:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011

Sorry to be brief; more details are at the links provided.  I know that
the i18n team also led a translation sprint and an intro to MediaWiki
hacking in Pune after the Mumbai hackathon, but I'll leave it to them in
case they want to report about that.

-- 
Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation