The hackathon will take place from August 13th, 5am UTC (7am CEST) to August 14th, 4:59 am UTC . The schedule takes in account the various time zones in which participants are located.
You can watch the opening session at any time on YouTube or on Commons .
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To discover previous sessions or other resources that can be helpful for you to get started on a technical project, feel free to check the "Other resources" section below the schedule table.
Hackathon schedule
Date and time (UTC/GMT)
Hacking Room 1 (Jitsi)
Hacking Room 2 (Jitsi)
Other events
August 13th, 05:00 Watch the opening session together:
August 13th, 06:00 Newcomers Q&A - If you have any questions about the hackathon or the technical environment, feel free to join! (30min)Facilitation: Léa Lacroix
August 13th, 07:00
August 13th, 08:00 Wikidata meetup notes-taking here )Facilitation: Mohammed Sadat, Lydia Pintscher, Léa Lacroix
August 13th, 09:00 Presenting mwsql: A new Python library for working with Wikimedia SQL dumps
August 13th, 10:00 Olympics Edit-a-Thon. Uploading historical medal's data using OpenRefine
August 13th, 11:00 The Best Wikidata Gadgets
August 13th, 12:00 Wikidata Pink Pony Session notes-taking here )Facilitation: Mohammed Sadat, Lydia Pintscher, Léa Lacroix
August 13th, 13:00
August 13th, 14:00 Newcomers Q&A - If you have any questions about the hackathon or the technical environment, feel free to join! (30min)Facilitation: Elfego Solares
August 13th, 15:00 Where can I run this? An introduction to Wikimedia Cloud Services Slides )Wikimedia developer portal: audiences discussion Sarah R. Rodlund & Alex Paskulin
August 13th, 16:00 How can we improve Quarry and PAWS to help developers in their journey? Etherpad )Joaquin Hernandez
Ask anything about Phabricator AKlapper
August 13th, 17:00 Developing a bot to add mass information from APIs to Wikidata: OpenCitations Bot Houcemeddine Turki , Data Engineering and Semantics Research Unit and Wikimedia TN User Group, TunisiaDennis Priskorn , Mid-Sweden University, Sweden
August 13th, 18:00 Getting started on Govdirectory Abbe98 and Ainali
Join developing Knowledge Equity at Hack4OpenGLAM Susannaanas , Scann , Shahadusadik et al.
August 13th, 19:00 Getting started on Lingua Libre Poslovitch
Introduction on modelling Witches in Wikidata by User:Ciell and Natt
Govdirectory user research
August 13th, 20:00
August 13th, 21:00 Snacks and drinks club Facilitation: Association of Stroopwafel Addicts
August 13th, 22:00 Newcomers Q&A - If you have any questions about the hackathon or the technical environment, feel free to join! (30min)
Facilitation: Srishti Sethi
August 13th, 23:00
August 14th, 00:00
August 14th, 01:00
August 14th, 02:00
August 14th, 03:00
August 14th, 04:00
Basic skills needed to contribute to development of MediaWiki core and MediaWiki extensions An overview of the MediaWiki Action API (slides )About the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) provides a way for tools to access Wikidata data About Gerrit, the tool we use to handle code reviews Wikibase An introduction to Wikimedia Cloud Services (i.e., Toolforge, PAWS) An overview about Structured Data A basic overview of the implementation of Lua on Wikimedia projects Writing documentation as a community – Dan Schick (video, 20min)Where can I run this? An introduction to Wikimedia Cloud Services – Andrew (video, 25min)Intro to PAWS/Jupyter notebooks for Python beginners – Chico Venancio (video, 25min)Intro to Toolhub for tool maintainers – bd808 (video, 25min)Untangling MediaWiki – Daniel Kinzler (video, 20min)Wikibase starting from scratch – Luca Mauri (video, 20min)Lua modules training - tomaomg (video, 40min)An introduction to user scripts and gadgets (slides )Opportunities for new developers in the Wikipedia community including an overview of the technical areas and projects - Srishti Sethi (video )Resources, tools, and recommendations in technical areas relevant to smaller wikis that are just getting started 
