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Prague, 16-19 May 2019

Preliminary plans

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Originally posted on Wikimedia Hackathon 2019/Participant List
What should others ask you about?
documentation, welcoming beginner developers, regex, git, SVG, SPARQL queries, CLDR, minority languages
Your hackathon plan / relevant to other participants
My main interests currently surround Wikidata, where I'd like to work in a few fronts:
1) Systematic (semi-automated) improvement of data about various topics: given names and surnames; administrative divisions (boundaries, population...); musical notes, chords and scales; software releases and licenses; map projections, etc.
2) Improving query builders (graphical interfaces to perform SPARQL queries), as well as other tools like Mix'n'match, Wikidata game and the Distributed game, Cradle, Tabernacle, QuickStatements, Reasonator, etc.
3) Learning more about lexemes so I can start building a Cape Verdean creole dictionary.
4) Besides Wikidata, I'd love to join forces with others wanting to improve documentation and usability to make technical contributions to the Wikimedia projects easier for beginners.
Depending on who I can team up with, I hope to end up working in one or two projects from the list above, and ideally also contribute some small fixes to mediawiki.

Hacking projects

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During this hackathon I focused my work on four areas:

I've documented this work in a lot more detail in this Workflowy document (editable version)

Sessions

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In-between hacking, technical discussions and general socialization, I attended the following scheduled sessions of the event.

(For more details on the sessions, see the Program and the list of tasks on Phabricator.)

Friday, 17 May

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  • 09:30–11:00 → Opening session
  • 11:00–11:30 → Poster creation session
  • 12:00–12:30 → Project matching session
  • 18:30–19:30 → Jam band

Saturday, 18 May

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  • 13:30–14:00 → Group photo
  • 16:00–17:00 → Wikidata meeting
  • 18:30–19:30 → Jam band
  • 19:30–20:30 → Bohemian beer tasting

Sunday, 19 May

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  • 11:00–12:00 → Wikibase install party
  • 15:00–18:00 → Hackathon closing & showcase