Wikimedia Pre-Hackathon in Greece

Marios MagioladitisWikimedia Community User Group Greece

CEE Meeting 2017, Warsaw, Poland23 September 2017

What did we do?

● Contact with OKF and SheSharp

● Used WMF wishlist

● One single-event with ampitheater for talks

and a large room for hacking

● 20’ talks on Mediawiki, Phabricator,

AutoWikiBrowser, Open Data

● Hacking covered MediaWiki, Pywikibot,

Mobile, AutoWikiBrowser and

documentation for rookies

What did we learn?

● Phabricator is not easy for newcomers

● WMF wishlist is not appropriate target

● More tutorials

Logistics:

● 150 attendees

● 85 participants

● Budget all covered by sponsors

Greece

Greece

Greece

AcknowledgementsThese slides are part of “Wikimedia Hackathon goes CEE: What we learned from pre-hackathons across the region” prepared for Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2017 that took place in Warsaw, Poland.

The pre-hackathon was made possible thanks to Wikipedia Österreich.

Special thanks to Claudia Garad for organising the entire thing and her continuous support and help through all the stages of the pre-hackathon preparation and long after it.