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Sumana Harihareswara | 13 Jun 2012 13:14
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Lua workshop this fall: Reston, Virginia, USA, Nov 29-30

http://www.lua.org/wshop12.html

"the main goal of the workshop is to allow the Lua community to get
together and meet in person and talk about the Lua language, its uses,
and its implementation.... We shall have a plenary talk by Roberto
Ierusalimschy (Lua's chief architect) and several contributed talks....
If you'd like to speak at the workshop, please send a tentative title
and a short abstract to the organizers."

If you think it would be useful for Wikimedia to make an appearance, go
ahead and submit an abstract or suggest someone to go.

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Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
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Sumana Harihareswara | 13 Jun 2012 13:20
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Re: Lua workshop this fall: Reston, Virginia, USA, Nov 29-30

On 06/13/2012 07:14 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
> http://www.lua.org/wshop12.html
> 
> "the main goal of the workshop is to allow the Lua community to get
> together and meet in person and talk about the Lua language, its uses,
> and its implementation.... We shall have a plenary talk by Roberto
> Ierusalimschy (Lua's chief architect) and several contributed talks....
> If you'd like to speak at the workshop, please send a tentative title
> and a short abstract to the organizers."
> 
> If you think it would be useful for Wikimedia to make an appearance, go
> ahead and submit an abstract or suggest someone to go.

And financial subsidy may be available for you to go:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation:Support

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Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
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Sumana Harihareswara | 18 Jun 2012 21:29
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Upcoming hackathon for experts AND newbies: Washington, DC, USA July 10-11

This is a reminder that you're invited to the pre-Wikimania hackathon,
10-11 July in Washington, DC, USA:

https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon

In order to come, you have to register for the Wikimania conference:

https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registration

(Unfortunately, the period for requesting scholarships is now over.)

At the hackathon, we'll have trainings and projects for novices, and we
welcome creators of all Wikimedia technologies -- MediaWiki, gadgets,
bots, mobile apps, you name it -- to hack on stuff together and teach
each other.

Hope to see you!

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Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
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Sumana Harihareswara | 19 Jun 2012 12:36
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Wikimedia at Open Source Bridge conference, late June, Portland

June 26-29, a bunch of us will be in Portland, Oregon, USA for the Open
Source Bridge conference.

http://opensourcebridge.org/events/2012/schedule

WMF is sponsoring the Friday unconference day, and will host a hacking
table that day as well as (I hope) the Tuesday "Hacker Lounge
Project/Community Night."

Wikimedians are giving several talks during OSBridge:

    "Identity, Reputation and Gratitude: Designing for a community" by
Brandon Harris: Tuesday, 1:30
    "A snapshot of Open Source in West Africa" by Renaud Gaudin:
Tuesday, 3:45
    "Building A Visual Editor for Wikipedia" by Roan Kattouw and Trevor
Parscal: Tuesday, 4:45
    "Internationalization  <at> Wikipedia: Helping add the next billion web
users" by Alolita Sharma: Wednesday, 10am
    "Why you need to host 100 new wikis just for yourself." by Ward
Cunningham: Wednesday, 2:30
    "Outreach Events: My Triumphs, My Mistakes" by Asheesh Laroia and
me: Thursday, 3:45

I give the opening keynote address on Tuesday morning. My tentative
title: "Be Bold."

If you're in or near Portland and want to come, let me know; I might be
able to hook you up with a free conference pass.
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Sumana Harihareswara | 22 Jun 2012 06:51
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Re: Upcoming hackathon for experts AND newbies: Washington, DC, USA July 10-11

On 06/19/2012 03:41 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
> This is a reminder that you're invited to the pre-Wikimania hackathon,
> 10-11 July in Washington, DC, USA:
> 
> https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon
> 
> In order to come, you have to register for the Wikimania conference:
> 
> https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registration
> 
> (Unfortunately, the period for requesting scholarships is now over.)
> 
> At the hackathon, we'll have trainings and projects for novices, and we
> welcome creators of all Wikimedia technologies -- MediaWiki, gadgets,
> bots, mobile apps, you name it -- to hack on stuff together and teach
> each other.
> 
> Hope to see you!

Actually, you don't have to register for Wikimania to come to the
hackathon.  The registration fee is only required for the main
conference days; everyone is welcome to come to the hackathon days and
unconference for free.  So tell your DC friends to sign up at
https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon and come!

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Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
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Oren Bochman | 25 Jun 2012 10:31
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Re: filming the hackathon for experts AND newbies: Washington, DC, USA July 10-11

Hi 

I have learned from one of the organizers of Wikimania that they are not
planning to film the Hackathon sessions. Furthermore, it was suggested that
the WMF orgenisers take care of this issue if though consider it a high
priority! 

I fear that not putting these materials online will be a major setback for
the developer community. I, and other refer to these lectures throughout the
year. They also contain much information not available online. 

Also some of the recent coverage from Berlin - is of rather dubious quality.
(Not the lecture - the video coverage) I have reviewed the lua lectures many
time while I converting them into a MediaWiki Lua tutorial (currently hosted
on  meta within the scope of a larger educational project). I can say that
in this case there is about 5 to 10 times more (MediaWiki) specific
materials in the lecture than there is online elsewhere but that it
difficult to understand due to sound issues.

I hope this matter can be resolved in time for the sake of the numerous
volunteer developers who will not be able to attend this event.

Thanks!

Oren Bochman
Mediawiki Lead of Search

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Sumana Harihareswara | 25 Jun 2012 10:42
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Re: filming the hackathon for experts AND newbies: Washington, DC, USA July 10-11

Thanks for the heads-up, Oren.  I'll talk with OpenHatch and other WMF
folks about the possible filming of the Wikimania hackathon.  Can you
specifically say what is most valuable about having lectures videotaped
and available online for you?  Would transcripts and slides be
sufficient substitutes?

The few Berlin hackathon videos that you see online at
http://vimeo.com/user7709672/videos are provisional and fairly
temporary; professionally edited videos will be up at
commons.wikimedia.org by or on July 9th.

People who want to look at Oren's lessons can find them at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:OrenBochman/Lessons .

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Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation

On 06/25/2012 01:31 AM, Oren Bochman wrote:
> Hi 
> 
> I have learned from one of the organizers of Wikimania that they are not
> planning to film the Hackathon sessions. Furthermore, it was suggested that
> the WMF orgenisers take care of this issue if though consider it a high
> priority! 
> 
> I fear that not putting these materials online will be a major setback for
> the developer community. I, and other refer to these lectures throughout the
> year. They also contain much information not available online.
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Oren Bochman | 25 Jun 2012 14:08
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Re: filming the hackathon for experts AND newbies: Washington, DC, USA July 10-11

Hi again.

I'm glad to hear that the Berlin Lectures will be uploaded at higher quality
and that Asheesh Loria will be assisting in this years wikimania's Hakcathon
and material development.

As per your questions - I have revisited last year's lectures a couple of
times. I tend to maximize the social aspects of hackathon and review the
technical materials at my leisure and with the attention to detail that they
require.

I reviewed almost all of Wikimania during Jan-March. For examples I
revisited Andrew West's Lecture on ant vandalism where he mentioned using
Amazon Mechanical Turk to create an anti-vandalism corpus. He also described
in verbatim how anti-vandalism robots are designed. This is not mentioned
AFIK in any academic journals - only the results of anti-vandalism are. The
reason why this work was interesting for me was that it applies to the area
of Quality Assessment - where being able to draw the fine line between good
will edits and bad will ones boils down to keeping or loosing new editors.

Another example is review of the materials about gadgets and extensions.
This work comes with a steep learning curve and again the lectures fill the
void created by a lack of hands on training course.

Regarding your questions slides are useful but to a limited degree. They are
supposed to help support a lecture visually and help a good speaker keep his
place in the talk. In the case of the Lua slides - they really help to
structure a tutorial but the lecture has almost all the important details.
About transcripts - these are best if added to the lectures - both to remedy
low quality vocals and to help users with accessibility problems but are not
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Gabriel Wicke | 26 Jun 2012 15:02
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Visual Editor / Parsoid demo release

Since this was not yet posted to wikitext-l:

Last Thursday, we rolled out a new release of the Visual Editor, the
first to use Parsoid to load and save actual wiki pages. You can read
about it at
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/06/21/help-us-shape-wikimedias-prototype-visual-editor/.

Or try it at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor:Test

And please leave feedback at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Visual_editor/Feedback or in bugzilla.

Cheers,

Gabriel
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