Wikimedia Conference 2010/Developers' Workshop

The Wikimedia Developer Workshop 2010 is held on April 14^th-16^th in Berlin, Germany, as part of the Wikimedia Conference 2010. The Workshop is for everyone interested in the technical aspects of contributing to Wikimedia projects. This includes Gadget development, Bot development, Toolserver applications, processing wiki dumps, and of course MediaWiki development (extension or core) and managing the Wikimedia servers.

Wikimedia Deutschland invites anyone interested to join the event. There's no fee, but places are limited, and registration is required. In exceptional cases (such as a single company sending 10 people) we reserve the right to reject registrations.

Registration is required (now closed).
Venue: Zanox Campus
Accommodation: Eastern-Comfort
Practical information about Berlin
Getting there
OpenStreetMap Google Map
Follow on twitter or identi.ca
Schedule at http://tinyurl.com/wmdev10cal (google calendar)
Help needed: Volunteers
Notes
Survey

Contact

Mail: <conference@wikimedia.de>
Panic Phone for emergencies: +49 176 38344344 (backup +49 176 86219490) (you should have a very good reason to call after 11 pm)
Programme of the Developer Workshop: Daniel Kinzler <daniel.kinzler AT wikimedia.de>
Project manager: Nicole Ebber <nicole.ebber AT wikimedia.de>

Schedule

There will be a PGP keysigning session, please sign up!

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~~See http://tinyurl.com/wmdev10cal for the schedule.~~

Only online schedule is now obsolete. Please look at our pretty wall for sessions. And have an eye on twitter for announcements. Have fun!

Don't forget: there's free food at zanox on thursday evening starting 7pm. We'll get to meet the chapter folks. Stick around for the fun.

On friday, there is the hacking lounge on the hostel boat. See you there for drinks, musik and wifi.

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Attendees

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Official list of attendees:

First name	Last name	Nickname	E-Mail
Lars	Aronsson	LA2
Simon	Bachenberg	sbachenberg	simon(.)bachenberg(a)gesis(.)org
Asaf	Bartov	Ijon	asaf(.)bartov(a)gmail(.)com
Eva-Maria	Biedenbach
Ævar Arnfjörð	Bjarmason	avar	avarab(a)gmail(.)com
John Erling	Blad	jeblad	jeblad(a)wikimedia(.)no
Joachim	Bode	achimbode	achimbode(a)gmx(.)net
Finne	Boonen	henna	hennar(a)gmail(.)com
Maciej	Brencz		macbre(a)wikia-inc(.)com
Pak San	Chan	Morgan	morgand536(a)wikimedia(.)hk
Marcin	Cieślak	saper	saper(a)saper(.)info
Danese	Cooper	Danese	danese(a)wikimedia(.)org
Chun	Cui		ccui(a)informatik(.)uni-leipzig(.)de
Jeroen	De Dauw	JeroenDeDauw	jeroendedauw(a)gmail(.)com
Tatiana	de la O	acracia	acracia(a)riseup(.)net
Guillaume	Duhamel	Guillaume	gduhamel(a)linterweb(.)fr
David	Fichtmueller
Tomasz	Finc		tfinc(a)wikimedia(.)org
Philip	Gabrielsen	Flums	philip(a)webcode(.)no
Lucas	Garczewski	TOR	tor(a)wikia-inc(.)com
Andrew	Garrett		agarrett(a)wikimedia(.)org
Markus	Glaser	mglaser	glaser(a)hallowelt(.)biz
Jonathan	Gray		jonathan(.)gray(a)okfn(.)org
Gregor	Hagedorn		g(.)m(.)hagedorn(a)gmail(.)com
Chad	Horohoe	^demon	innocentkiller(a)gmail(.)com
Robert	Isele
Anja	Jentzsch	anjeve	anja(a)anjeve(.)de
Jure	Kajzer	freakolowsky
Neil	Kandalgaonkar	NeilK
Roan	Kattouw	Catrope	roan(.)kattouw(a)gmail(.)com
Daniel	Kinzler	Duesentrieb	daniel(.)kinzler(a)wikimedia(.)de
Inez	Korczyński		korczynski(a)gmail(.)com
Markus	Krötzsch		markus(a)semantic-mediawiki(.)org
Leszek	Krupiński	Leafnode
Ryan	Lane		rlane(a)wikimedia(.)org
Pascal	Martin	pm27	pmartin(a)linterweb(.)fr
Siebrand	Mazeland	siebrand
Adam	Miller
Erik	Moeller		emoeller(a)wikimedia(.)org
Felipe	Ortega	jfelipe	jfelipe(a)libresoft(.)es
Moka	Pantages		moka(a)wikimedia(.)org
Trevor	Parscal		trevor(a)wikimedia(.)org
Guillaume	Paumier	guillom	gpaumier(a)wikimedia(.)org
Emil	Podlaszewski
Sam	Reed	Reedy	sam(a)reedyboy(.)net
Patrick	Sbrzesny		patrick(.)sbrzesny(a)mindxchange(.)net
Maria	Schiewe		maria(.)schiewe(a)wikimedia(.)de
Manuel	Schneider	80686
Frank	Schulenburg	Frank Schulenburg
Raimond	Spekking	Raymond	raimond(.)spekking(a)gmail(.)com
Tim	Starling
Robert	Stojnic	rainman
Hannes	Tank		flaxxen(a)googlemail(.)com
River	Tarnell	flyingparchment	river(.)tarnell(a)wikimedia(.)de
Daniel	Tester	tester	test(a)brightbyte(.)de
Bryan	Tong Minh		bryan(.)tongminh(a)gmail(.)com
Victor	Vasiliev	VasilievVV	vasilvv(a)gmail(.)com
Brion	Vibber
		APPER	apper(a)apper(.)de
		Cacycle
		Church of emacs	church(.)of(.)emacs(.)ml(a)gmail(.)com
		DaB.
		Danny B.
		DerHexer
		Howie
		Kolossos
		prolineserver
		schmir
		Seb35
		Wikinaut
		William

Former incomplete list:

This list is purely informational and likely to be incomplete.

Topic brainstorming

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Brainstorming Session Wednesday Morning

Pre-workshop brainstorming list

Below are on-paper suggested topics. For notes, please look at the #Notes section.

JS / Skin

wikibits -> jQuery migration (Roan/Trevor)
revised Skins (no HTML/PHP spaghetti!)
New Skin System / JS Skin API (Trevor)

UX

improve Usability and Accessability
Usability of Commons, Upload form
Block Level In-Place Editing (Trevor)
MediaWiki i18n - leave it be or improve it?
Rich text editing (wikEd) / WYSIWYG (several times)
Commons Metadata & Search
Online Image Editing for Commons
File (picture) upload usability (LA2)
Video Collaboration - Division of labour among users with diffent skills (LA2)
Automatically render the <references />-block in the preview, if you edit a section of an article that has a <ref ... >-tag in it.

Offline

Dump HTML - for different filesystems with solution for Non-ASCII filenames
Wikipedia Offline (using WMF wikis without internet connectivity like "WikiReader" or "Wikipock" )
offline Wikipedia (data extraction and openZIM project "dump" file format): finishing ZIM integration for regular ZIM file export: roadmap ; MediaWiki extension for manual ZIM file export
Meta-Data Separation
Data-sets - what data can WMF make available for data mining

Links

Bugs + Testing + Coding

Improved Process for Patch/Commit review & Deploymjent (Andrew)
Triage and Assignment (Andrew)
Easy output which bug is online/ fixed for WP, not just resolved/fixed in Bugzilla/MW/SVN
Automated Testing (Selenium, Unit, TDD)
Selenium (Ryan Lane)
Automated Tests (Selenium, etc.)

Structured Data

structured Data / Meta-Data
Data Reuse - API for preparsed output (XML) - Enable Semantic MW for authors (?), even if not queries
Metadata Export/Exchange
importances of using templates instead of tables for structured data (esp. in wikipedia)
Semantic Mediawiki
Benefits of a semantic Wikipedia
Semantic Web
Public Domain
Bibliographic Data
Integrating external Data-sources
automate collection and archival of references
Dynamic mashups with external sources
Automatic inclusion of external data like statistics
External archiving (pages cache of web)
Geo-tagging & maps (last year's topic) (LA2)
OpenStreetMap integration into Wikipedia
Mapping on Mediawiki (OSM Integration)
Usage of WP-coordinates, bring them to OSM (Kolossos)
OSM-Maps (Kolossos)

Services and Integration

API Query Pages (Roan) - 1b 14864
API
MediaWiki API Access / Extend
E-mail issues: privacy of mail addresses (wiki mailer); E-mail notification enabling problems, bugs
RC Feed via XMPP
Admin control panels -> config and plugins
Central Notice System
recent changes stream for bots / analysers
Mediawiki Visual/Dynamic Configuratio
OpenID/OAuth for wikimedia sites (Ryan Lane)
changes in 1.16, lesser globals? new way to store settings?

Participation & Contribution

Wikimedia projects on Mobile - how to enable participation for contributions (tomasz)
Social User to User Projects
Synergies between Wikipedia and ohter mediawiki users
User "Rating" of pages ****
Reader to editor conversion | editor onboarding
Image Rating (with stars or so ...)
Systems for Quality, assurance and verification

DB internals

Better Systems for Logging of Administrator Actions (New Logging Table) (Andrew)
BigDelete/Archive Table Overhaul (Roan/Chad)
"Collation" issues (sorting orders by diffent locales) - categories, page names
Deletion with MediaWiki (Classic vs. RevDel)
Making default search not suck

Parser

AutoWikiFier (to wikify (semi-) automatically)
Conversion Wikitext to ODT, PDF, ...
Parser and Built-in scripts (Victor)
Parser
Parsing WikiCode Best Practices (without $wgParser)
working JavaScript Wikicode Parser in WikEd)

Organizational

Hacking Days in Gdansk
Google Summer of Code Prioritizing Session (Roan/Danese)
What are you working on? Tell me your Extension (Danese)
GSOC for mentors (Kolossos)
The future of Wikimedia Foundation Technology Dept (Danese)
Support exchange of experiance and new methods (LA2)
GSOC proposal assessment session (mentors only) (Siebrand)

Other

a good free OCR for WikiBooks
$wgRCPatrol
new Installer (Chad)
supporting 3rd-party MW users

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Notes

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Notes from different sessions.

Day 1 (Wednesday)

Usability experience (UX)

wysiwyg editing - Trevor showed his prototype of splitting wikitext into block, so separated visual edit tools (e.g. normal text, bulletins, templates etc) would be developed
the "other" wysiwyg editor from wikia (CKEditor) - showed mini-editors for templates and images. Full presentation at 4pm today.
the third wysiwyg editor (Wikied) - JavaScript parser - for power users, available as Gadget on en.wp. Works best on firefox, works on webkits and opera 10 (with some bugs), almost works on IE.
Agenda for the afternoon: dialogs, skins, commons UI

Structured Data

Live notes at /Strucured Data.
First session after lunch will be about Using MW templates for managing structured data (do we need better declarations of template parameters? datatypes? data extraction from templates, ...)
The other main topic of the group is Data import/re-use from external sources (live import vs. data integration, caching, push vs. pull, versioning issues, trust and provenance)
Both of these main topics may lead to technical implications re MW (extension) development (storage backend, parser, ...)

Organization

Worked on Priority Ranking for Google Summer of Code proposals since we have a deadline one week away to fine-tune to make sure most promising proposals are accepted. Notes available at /OrganizationWorkingGroup
We'll be meeting again tomorrow to work through the rest of the topics we'd identified.

Wrapup Notes

User:Tfinc/2010DevConfReportBack

Day 2 (Thursday)

Accessibility

presentation on WAI-ARIA as one means for better accessibility (slides available)

Organization

Picked up the rest of the topics queued for discussion during Day 1, including: Bug Triage, Volunteer Developer Outreach, Expansion of QA, Verson Control, Code Review / Patch Management. Notes at /OrganizationWorkingGroup have been updated.

WikiWomen

Women at the event met over lunch on the second day to discuss the state of gender diversity in Wikimedia. Notes at /WikiWomen

Meta-data search

Notes (including agenda) are at /MetaDataSearch

Wrapup Notes

User:Tfinc/2010DevConfThurReportBack