Chennai Unofficial Wikimedia Hackathon Report
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Chennai Unofficial Wikimedia Hackathon Report
 
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The Chennai Unofficial Wikimedia Hackathon Report
Apologies for the delayed email. Work ate me. TL;DR: 13 completed hacks, including 2 core mediawiki patches, 3 tawiki userscript updates and 2 new deployed tools. It was super awesome and super productive! The 'Unofficial' Chennai Wikimedia Hackathon(http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Chennai_Hackathon_March_2012) happened on Saturday, March 17 2012 at the Thoughtworks office in Chennai. It was a one day, 8 hour event focusing on getting people together to hack on stuff related to all Wikimedia projects - not just Mediawiki patches. The event started with us sailing past security reasonably easily, and getting setup with internet without a glitch. People trickled in and soon enough we had 21 people in there. Since this was a pure hackathon, there were no explicit tutorials or presentations. As people came in, we asked them what technologies/fields they are familiar with, and picked out an idea for them to work on from the Ideas List (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Chennai_Hackathon_March_2012/Ideas). This took care of the biggest problem with hackathons with new people - half the day spent on figuring out what to work on, and when found, it is completely outside the domain of expertise of the people hacking on the idea. Talking together with them fast to pick an idea within 5 minutes that they can complete in the day fixed this problem and made sure people can concentrate on coding for the rest of the day. People started hacking, and just before lunch we made people come up and tell us what they were working on. We then broke for lunch and usual socialization happened over McDonalds burgers and Saravana Bhavan dosas. Hacking started soon after, and people were concentrating on getting their hacks done before the demo time. And we did have quite a few demos! Demos ===== Here's a short description of each of the demos, written purely in the order in which they were presented: 1. Wikiquotes via SMS By: @MadhuVishy and @YesKarthik What it does: Send a person name to a particular number, and you'll keep getting back quotes from that person. Works in similar semi-automated fashion as the DYKBot. Built on AppEngine + Python. Status: Deployed live! Send SMS '@wikiquote Gandhi' to 9243342000 to test it out! Has limited data right now, however. --- 2. API to Rotate Images (Mediawiki Core Patch) By: Vivek What it does: Adds an API method that can arbitrarily rotate images. Think of this as first step towards being able to rotate any image in commons with a single button instantly, without having to wait for a bot. Patch was attached to https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/33186. Status: It was reviewed on that day itself (Thanks Reedy!). Vivek is now figuring out how to modify his patch so that it would be accepted into Mediawiki core. Vivek is also applying to work with Mediawiki for GSoC, so we will hopefully get a long term contributor :) --- 3. Find list of unique Tamil words in tawiki By: Shrinivasan T What it does: It took the entire tamil wikipedia dump and extracted all unique words out of it. About 1.3 million unique tamil words were extracted. Has multiple applications, including a tamil spell checker. Status: Code and the dataset live on github: https://github.com/tshrinivasan/tamil-wikipedia-word-list --- 4. Program to help record pronunciations for words in tawikt What it does: Simple python program that gives you a word, asks you to pronounce it and then uploads it to commons for being used in Wiktionary. Makes the process much more streamlined and faster. Status: Code available at: https://github.com/tshrinivasan/voice-recorder-for-tawictionary. Preliminary testing with his friends shows that easy to record 500 words in half an hour. Is currently blocked on figuring out a way to properly upload to commons --- 5. Translation of Gadgets/UserScripts to tawiki By: SuryaPrakash [[:ta:பயனர்:Surya_Prakash.S.A.]] What he did: Surya spent the day translating two gadgets into Tamil, so they can be used on tawiki. First is the 'Prove It' Reference addition tool (http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediawiki:Gadget-ProveIt.js). The second one was the 'Speed Reader' extension that formats content into multiple columns for faster scanning (http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediawiki:Gadget-TwoColumn.js). Last I checked, these are available for anyone with only tamil knowledge to use, so yay! (He also tried to localize Twinkle for Tamil, couldn't because of issues with the laptop he was using. --- 6. Structured database search over Wikipedia By: Ashwanth What it does: Built a tool that combined DBPedia and Wikipedia to allow you to search in a semantic way. We almost descended into madness with people searching for movies with Kamal and movies with Rajni (both provided accurate results, btw). Amazing search tool that made it super easy to query information in a natural way. Status: The code is available at https://github.com/ashwanthkumar/structured-wiki-search. Definitely would be awesome to see this deployed somewhere, so would be great if the community could come up with specific ideas on how to make this a specific cool tool. --- 7. Photo upload to commons by Email By: Ganesh What it does: Started with building a tool that will let you email a particular address with pictures + metadata in the body of the page, and it will be uploaded to commons. This was for the benefit of people with older outdated phones *cough*Logic*cough* who would like to use their phone's camera to contribute to commons, but can not due to technical limitations. Status: He wasn't able to get that to work during the hackathon - too many technical issues cropped up. However, he's *very* definitely interested in setting it up, and has made progress towards it. I hope someone from the community (perhaps people doing WLM?) should be able to get in touch with him to see if this tool could be developed further with a specific goal in mind. --- 8. Lightweight offline Wiki reader By: Feroze What it does: There is a project called qvido (http://projects.qi-hardware.com/index.php/p/qvido/) which was a 'lightweight' offline Wiki reader (compared to Kiwix, which is heavier). It has been abandoned for a while, however. Feroze took the time to revive the project, figure out how to build it (and wrote build instructions!) and also fixed a bug so that it can be used to demo showing offline Wiki navigation. He was able to demo it showing the Odiya Wikipedia dump offline, with working link navigation. Status: There exists a git repo (https://github.com/feroze/qvido) with the code + the build instructions. I hope that people interested in offline projects check this out and see if it can be made useful, and take this forward. --- 9. Patches to AssessmentBar By: gsathya What it does: AssessmentBar is a small widget/tool I'm building to make WP India assessments easier (at the request of User:AshLin. Stay tuned for an announcement in the next few days). Sathya spent time making the backend for it more scalable, so the same server can support multiple projects and concurrent users in a better way. Before that he was contemplating setting up a hidden Tor node for Wikipedia (he's a Tor core contributor) and then playing with data visualizations with WP data. Status: There is a pull request (https://github.com/yuvipanda/MadamHut/pull/2) that I need to merge :) --- 10. Parsing Movie data into a database By: Arunmozhi (Tecoholic) and Lavanya What it does: It scrapes the infoboxes of all movies from whatever category you give it and stores this into a database. This is harder than it sounds because parsing wikitext is similar to beating yourself up repeatedly in the head with a large trout. They managed to figure out a nice way to extract information from all Indian movie pages, and put it in a database for programmatic easy access later. Status: I've asked them to put the code up publicly somewhere, and since I believe Tecoholic is in this mailing list, he'll reply with the link :) These kinds of data scraping can be used to build very nice tools that show off how much information Wikipedia has, and perhaps also help people contribute back by editing information for their favorite movies. I hope the community comes up with a nice idea to utilize this, and takes this project forward to its ultimate destiny: A super sexy IMDB type site for Indian Movies with data sourced from Wikipedia (I can dream :D) --- 11. Random Good WP India article tool By: Shakti and Sharath What it does: It is a simple tool that shows you one B, A, GA or FA article every time you go there. The idea is to provide a usable service for people who want to accumulate lots of knowledge by randomly reading stuff, but only want good stuff (so stubs, etc are filtered out (unlike Special:Random)). I'll also note that neither of them had worked with any web service before the hackathon, nor with JSON, nor with the mediawiki API, yet were able to build and deploy this tool within the day. /me gives a virtual imaginary barnstar to either of them Status: It is currently deployed at http://srik.me/WPIndia. Everytime you hit that link, you'll get an article about India that the community has deemed 'good'. The source code is available (https://github.com/saki92/category-based-search). They are eager to do more hacks such as these, and I'm hoping that the community will find enough technical cool things for these enthusiastic volunteers to work on --- 12. Fix bugs on tawiki ShortURL gadget By: Bharath What it does: The short url service used in tawiki (tawp.in) is shown in the wiki via a gadget. It is not the most user friendly gadget - you need to right click and select copy. Bharath looked for a solution by which you could click it and it would copy to the clipboard, but did not find any that would work without flash. Hence he abandoned that and started figuring out easier ways of making that happen. He also fixed several bugs in the implementation of the gadget, and I expect it to get deployed soonish. Thanks to SrikanthLogic for helping him through the process. Status: Code is available at http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D:Bharathkaush/shorturl.js. He's still fixing things on the script. If the community needs people to come fix up their user scripts/gadgets, Bharath would be a willing (and awesome!) candidate! --- 13. Add 'My Uploads' to top bar along with My Contributions, etc (Mediawiki Core Patch) By: SrikanthLogic What it does: Not satisfied with being the organizer of the hackathon, Srikanth wanted to flex his programming muscles and spent time fixing a bug in core mediawiki (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30915). He spent a while digging around the proper way to do this, and managed to make a proper patch! Status: It has been committed in gerrit (currently unable to find a link). Should be merged in soon. Yay! Honorable Mentions =================== 1. WikiPronouncer By: Russel Nickson What it was supposed to do: Exactly like Shrini's tool to record word pronunciations and upload to commons, but written for Android so people could add prononciations on the go. Status: Code is available at https://github.com/russelnickson/pronouncer. He ran into technical issues with Android setup (it stops working completely if you look at it the wrong way), and was unable to complete this. I think this would still be a very useful tool, and hope someone from the community steps up to work with Russel and get this finished. --- 2. Wiktionary cross lingual statistics By: PranavRC What it was supposed to do: It was a statistical tool that generated statistics about how many words overlap between all indic languages in Wiktionary (as measured by interwiki links). Status: The code has been written (I've requested the author to put it up publicly, will update list when it is). It, however, requires a lot of time to be run. So validation by the community that such stats would be useful would, IMO, definitely give Pranav the impetus to finish it up and show us the pretty graphs :) So, in all, 13 demos were produced (+ 2 near misses). I think we can call this one a success, no? :) Next Steps ========== Where do we go from here? Random thoughts: 1. Geek retention - this is reasonably easy. If we keep feeding hackers interesting problems that affect a lot of people, they'll keep helping us out. Is it possible to have some sort of a 'tools required' or 'hacks required' or 'gadgets required' page/queue someplace where we can always direct hackers looking for interesting problems to? IMO Wikipedia is full of interesting technical problems, so this *should* be feasible. 2. Follow ups - this time, I am able to do this personally (small enough group). Clearly this will not scale. Do we have ideas/methods for following up with these people so that they stay with us? 3. More of these? This was pretty much a 'zero cost' event - stickers were the only 'cost'. A lot of places around the country would love to have their space used for a hackathon of sorts. Should we do more of these kind of 'Unofficial' hackathons? Thanks due (in random order) ============================ 1. Thoughtworks/BalajiDamodaran: He graciously hosted us at Thoughtworks. The biggest challenge for any hackathon is to find a nice place which understands what hackathons are, and provides what is considered the lifeblood of a hackathon - working WiFi. Balaji (@openbala) was incredibly awesome, and this entire thing would've not been possible at all without him and ThoughtWorks. 2. Dorai Thodla: He helped popularize the hackathon among the Chennai Geeks crowd, and acted as a sounding board at various important times. He also connected us with @openbala and enabled us to get the venue. Thanks! 3. Srikanth Lakshmanan: The hackathon was his idea, and he made sure it was executed in a nice way. He was the official 'organizer', and made sure that all logistics were taken care of. Once the event started, he was very helpful in helping people technically and in picking up ideas, while also hacking on his own patch. This event was, in essence, organized and run by him. He took an overnight trip from Hyderabad straight out of office just for this. Thanks for making this possible! 4. Shrini (aka the relentless forwarder): This event wouldn't have been as much a success without him either. Evangelism across multiple lists, adding a lot of ideas that could be done, helping the people there out technically at all times and writing two really good hacks - Thank you! I'm glad we get to keep you :) 5. Subhashish Panighrahi: For sending us stickers :D (And who all is involved in that logistical process too!) Most of all, this event was a success because of the quality and dedication of the people who turned up, giving up their Saturdays. Hope everyone who turned up had a nice time :) I am personally in touch with most of them, and I also have their email address, phone number *and* permission to contact them again. If anyone here thinks that they liked one of the hacks and want to take it further, please contact me (User:Yuvipanda on Mediawiki.org or [hidden email]) and I'll get you people in touch. If there is a more accepted, standard way of handling this type of private information, please let me know as well! Thanks! - Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list [hidden email] To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l |
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On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Yuvi Panda <[hidden email]> wrote: The Chennai Unofficial Wikimedia Hackathon Report Great to know that so much happened on just one day. Congratulations to all the participants and organizers for having such a productive event. Best wishes Arjuna _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list [hidden email] To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l |
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Hoi,
Awesome ! Thanks, Gerard
On 27 March 2012 10:17, Yuvi Panda <[hidden email]> wrote: The Chennai Unofficial Wikimedia Hackathon Report _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list [hidden email] To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l |
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On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 13:47, Yuvi Panda <[hidden email]> wrote: -- The Chennai Unofficial Wikimedia Hackathon Report +1, it was indeed super awesome! 1. Wikiquotes via SMS They continue to work on making it more simpler, rich by giving an api which can tweet etc. They also need help with manually entering quotes, if you are interested, please ping me off list. (TxtWeb is an awesome platform and lot of people do use it, a fine example being dyk-plugin I wrote at Mumbai hackathon and never said a word outside this mailing list is getting 30 hits a day, even today!)
13. Add 'My Uploads' to top bar along with My Contributions, etc This was an "easy" patch sitting in openhatch for sometime now. Status: I should be commit to gerrit soon, still reading through workflow. Next Steps +1, these also make more people aware that they can hack on Wikimedia stuff! Thanks due (in random order) Big thanks to Balaji / Thoughtworks who have always been supportive to us(The first Wikimeetup in Chennai happened in Nov 2010 @ old thoughtworks office) Venue was just perfect.
3. Srikanth Lakshmanan: The hackathon was his idea, and he made sure It just happened with @tecoholic asking me "WHY NO HACKATHON IN CHENNAI" after not being able to attend Mumbai / Pune ones and Sumana asking me why don't do I help doing one.
Yuvipanda missed to thank himself,for being patient to all my prodding over a month, adding a bunch of ideas and for being awesome helping everyone at hackathon and in the process chose not to work on his AssessmentBar hack.But this made sure a many others completed their hacks :) (Sorry AshLin, you will get AssessmentBar very soon!)
Most of all, this event was a success because of the quality and +1 and I do hope lot of them continue to hack for Wikimedia :) Some pictures here. (Urge to sign in more languages like any other India hackathon made people use Greek, base64, Morse Code && Yuvi managed to spell his name right this time! :))
http://www.flickr.com/yuvi (more will be uploaded shortly and moved to commons)
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Hi guys,
Congratulations on the success of the Chennai Unofficial Wikimedia Hackathon. I have two requests. Regards, Konarak Ratnakar | kondi PS: Yuvi Panda that mail I accidently sent you was supposed to be sent on this list. > From: [hidden email] > Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:47:29 +0530 > To: [hidden email] > Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Chennai Unofficial Wikimedia Hackathon Report > > The Chennai Unofficial Wikimedia Hackathon Report > > Apologies for the delayed email. Work ate me. > > TL;DR: 13 completed hacks, including 2 core mediawiki patches, 3 > tawiki userscript updates and 2 new deployed tools. It was super > awesome and super productive! > > The 'Unofficial' Chennai Wikimedia > Hackathon(http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Chennai_Hackathon_March_2012) > happened on Saturday, March 17 2012 at the Thoughtworks office in > Chennai. It was a one day, 8 hour event focusing on getting people > together to hack on stuff related to all Wikimedia projects - not just > Mediawiki patches. > > The event started with us sailing past security reasonably easily, and > getting setup with internet without a glitch. People trickled in and > soon enough we had 21 people in there. Since this was a pure > hackathon, there were no explicit tutorials or presentations. As > people came in, we asked them what technologies/fields they are > familiar with, and picked out an idea for them to work on from the > Ideas List (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Chennai_Hackathon_March_2012/Ideas). > This took care of the biggest problem with hackathons with new people > - half the day spent on figuring out what to work on, and when found, > it is completely outside the domain of expertise of the people hacking > on the idea. Talking together with them fast to pick an idea within 5 > minutes that they can complete in the day fixed this problem and made > sure people can concentrate on coding for the rest of the day. > > People started hacking, and just before lunch we made people come up > and tell us what they were working on. We then broke for lunch and > usual socialization happened over McDonalds burgers and Saravana > Bhavan dosas. Hacking started soon after, and people were > concentrating on getting their hacks done before the demo time. And we > did have quite a few demos! > > Demos > ===== > > Here's a short description of each of the demos, written purely in the > order in which they were presented: > > 1. Wikiquotes via SMS > By: @MadhuVishy and @YesKarthik > > What it does: > Send a person name to a particular number, and you'll keep getting > back quotes from that person. Works in similar semi-automated fashion > as the DYKBot. Built on AppEngine + Python. > > Status: > Deployed live! Send SMS '@wikiquote Gandhi' to 9243342000 to test it > out! Has limited data right now, however. > > --- > > 2. API to Rotate Images (Mediawiki Core Patch) > By: Vivek > > What it does: > Adds an API method that can arbitrarily rotate images. Think of this > as first step towards being able to rotate any image in commons with a > single button instantly, without having to wait for a bot. Patch was > attached to https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/33186. > > Status: > It was reviewed on that day itself (Thanks Reedy!). Vivek is now > figuring out how to modify his patch so that it would be accepted into > Mediawiki core. Vivek is also applying to work with Mediawiki for > GSoC, so we will hopefully get a long term contributor :) > > --- > > 3. Find list of unique Tamil words in tawiki > By: Shrinivasan T > > What it does: > It took the entire tamil wikipedia dump and extracted all unique words > out of it. About 1.3 million unique tamil words were extracted. Has > multiple applications, including a tamil spell checker. > > Status: > Code and the dataset live on github: > https://github.com/tshrinivasan/tamil-wikipedia-word-list > > --- > > 4. Program to help record pronunciations for words in tawikt > > What it does: > Simple python program that gives you a word, asks you to pronounce it > and then uploads it to commons for being used in Wiktionary. Makes the > process much more streamlined and faster. > > Status: > Code available at: > https://github.com/tshrinivasan/voice-recorder-for-tawictionary. > Preliminary testing with his friends shows that easy to record 500 > words in half an hour. Is currently blocked on figuring out a way to > properly upload to commons > > --- > > 5. Translation of Gadgets/UserScripts to tawiki > By: SuryaPrakash [[:ta:பயனர்:Surya_Prakash.S.A.]] > > What he did: > Surya spent the day translating two gadgets into Tamil, so they can be > used on tawiki. First is the 'Prove It' Reference addition tool > (http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediawiki:Gadget-ProveIt.js). The second > one was the 'Speed Reader' extension that formats content into > multiple columns for faster scanning > (http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediawiki:Gadget-TwoColumn.js). Last I > checked, these are available for anyone with only tamil knowledge to > use, so yay! > > (He also tried to localize Twinkle for Tamil, couldn't because of > issues with the laptop he was using. > > --- > > 6. Structured database search over Wikipedia > By: Ashwanth > > What it does: > Built a tool that combined DBPedia and Wikipedia to allow you to > search in a semantic way. We almost descended into madness with people > searching for movies with Kamal and movies with Rajni (both provided > accurate results, btw). Amazing search tool that made it super easy to > query information in a natural way. > > Status: > The code is available at > https://github.com/ashwanthkumar/structured-wiki-search. Definitely > would be awesome to see this deployed somewhere, so would be great if > the community could come up with specific ideas on how to make this a > specific cool tool. > > --- > > 7. Photo upload to commons by Email > By: Ganesh > > What it does: > Started with building a tool that will let you email a particular > address with pictures + metadata in the body of the page, and it will > be uploaded to commons. This was for the benefit of people with older > outdated phones *cough*Logic*cough* who would like to use their > phone's camera to contribute to commons, but can not due to technical > limitations. > > Status: > He wasn't able to get that to work during the hackathon - too many > technical issues cropped up. However, he's *very* definitely > interested in setting it up, and has made progress towards it. I > hope someone from the community (perhaps people doing WLM?) should be > able to get in touch with him to see if this tool could be developed > further with a specific goal in mind. > > --- > > 8. Lightweight offline Wiki reader > By: Feroze > > What it does: > There is a project called qvido > (http://projects.qi-hardware.com/index.php/p/qvido/) which was a > 'lightweight' offline Wiki reader (compared to Kiwix, which is > heavier). It has been abandoned for a while, however. Feroze took the > time to revive the project, figure out how to build it (and wrote > build instructions!) and also fixed a bug so that it can be used to > demo showing offline Wiki navigation. He was able to demo it showing > the Odiya Wikipedia dump offline, with working link navigation. > > Status: > There exists a git repo (https://github.com/feroze/qvido) with the > code + the build instructions. I hope that people interested in > offline projects check this out and see if it can be made useful, and > take this forward. > > --- > > 9. Patches to AssessmentBar > By: gsathya > > What it does: > AssessmentBar is a small widget/tool I'm building to make WP India > assessments easier (at the request of User:AshLin. Stay tuned for an > announcement in the next few days). Sathya spent time making the > backend for it more scalable, so the same server can support multiple > projects and concurrent users in a better way. Before that he was > contemplating setting up a hidden Tor node for Wikipedia (he's a Tor > core contributor) and then playing with data visualizations with WP > data. > > Status: > There is a pull request (https://github.com/yuvipanda/MadamHut/pull/2) > that I need to merge :) > > --- > > 10. Parsing Movie data into a database > By: Arunmozhi (Tecoholic) and Lavanya > > What it does: > It scrapes the infoboxes of all movies from whatever category you give > it and stores this into a database. This is harder than it sounds > because parsing wikitext is similar to beating yourself up repeatedly > in the head with a large trout. They managed to figure out a nice way > to extract information from all Indian movie pages, and put it in a > database for programmatic easy access later. > > Status: > I've asked them to put the code up publicly somewhere, and since I > believe Tecoholic is in this mailing list, he'll reply with the link > :) These kinds of data scraping can be used to build very nice tools > that show off how much information Wikipedia has, and perhaps also > help people contribute back by editing information for their favorite > movies. I hope the community comes up with a nice idea to utilize > this, and takes this project forward to its ultimate destiny: A super > sexy IMDB type site for Indian Movies with data sourced from Wikipedia > (I can dream :D) > > --- > > 11. Random Good WP India article tool > By: Shakti and Sharath > > What it does: > It is a simple tool that shows you one B, A, GA or FA article every > time you go there. The idea is to provide a usable service for people > who want to accumulate lots of knowledge by randomly reading stuff, > but only want good stuff (so stubs, etc are filtered out (unlike > Special:Random)). I'll also note that neither of them had worked with > any web service before the hackathon, nor with JSON, nor with the > mediawiki API, yet were able to build and deploy this tool within the > day. /me gives a virtual imaginary barnstar to either of them > > Status: > It is currently deployed at http://srik.me/WPIndia. Everytime you hit > that link, you'll get an article about India that the community has > deemed 'good'. The source code is available > (https://github.com/saki92/category-based-search). They are eager to > do more hacks such as these, and I'm hoping that the community will > find enough technical cool things for these enthusiastic volunteers to > work on > > --- > > 12. Fix bugs on tawiki ShortURL gadget > By: Bharath > > What it does: > The short url service used in tawiki (tawp.in) is shown in the wiki > via a gadget. It is not the most user friendly gadget - you need to > right click and select copy. Bharath looked for a solution by which > you could click it and it would copy to the clipboard, but did not > find any that would work without flash. Hence he abandoned that and > started figuring out easier ways of making that happen. He also fixed > several bugs in the implementation of the gadget, and I expect it to > get deployed soonish. Thanks to SrikanthLogic for helping him through > the process. > > Status: > Code is available at > http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D:Bharathkaush/shorturl.js. > He's still fixing things on the script. If the community needs people > to come fix up their user scripts/gadgets, Bharath would be a willing > (and awesome!) candidate! > > --- > > 13. Add 'My Uploads' to top bar along with My Contributions, etc > (Mediawiki Core Patch) > By: SrikanthLogic > > What it does: > Not satisfied with being the organizer of the hackathon, Srikanth > wanted to flex his programming muscles and spent time fixing a bug in > core mediawiki (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30915). > He spent a while digging around the proper way to do this, and managed > to make a proper patch! > > Status: > It has been committed in gerrit (currently unable to find a link). > Should be merged in soon. Yay! > > Honorable Mentions > =================== > 1. WikiPronouncer > By: Russel Nickson > > What it was supposed to do: > Exactly like Shrini's tool to record word pronunciations and upload to > commons, but written for Android so people could add prononciations on > the go. > > Status: > Code is available at https://github.com/russelnickson/pronouncer. He > ran into technical issues with Android setup (it stops working > completely if you look at it the wrong way), and was unable to > complete this. I think this would still be a very useful tool, and > hope someone from the community steps up to work with Russel and get > this finished. > > --- > > 2. Wiktionary cross lingual statistics > By: PranavRC > > What it was supposed to do: > It was a statistical tool that generated statistics about how many > words overlap between all indic languages in Wiktionary (as measured > by interwiki links). > > Status: > The code has been written (I've requested the author to put it up > publicly, will update list when it is). It, however, requires a lot of > time to be run. So validation by the community that such stats would > be useful would, IMO, definitely give Pranav the impetus to finish it > up and show us the pretty graphs :) > > So, in all, 13 demos were produced (+ 2 near misses). I think we can > call this one a success, no? :) > > Next Steps > ========== > Where do we go from here? Random thoughts: > > 1. Geek retention - this is reasonably easy. If we keep feeding > hackers interesting problems that affect a lot of people, they'll keep > helping us out. Is it possible to have some sort of a 'tools required' > or 'hacks required' or 'gadgets required' page/queue someplace where > we can always direct hackers looking for interesting problems to? IMO > Wikipedia is full of interesting technical problems, so this *should* > be feasible. > 2. Follow ups - this time, I am able to do this personally (small > enough group). Clearly this will not scale. Do we have ideas/methods > for following up with these people so that they stay with us? > 3. More of these? This was pretty much a 'zero cost' event - stickers > were the only 'cost'. A lot of places around the country would love to > have their space used for a hackathon of sorts. Should we do more of > these kind of 'Unofficial' hackathons? > > > Thanks due (in random order) > ============================ > > 1. Thoughtworks/BalajiDamodaran: He graciously hosted us at > Thoughtworks. The biggest challenge for any hackathon is to find a > nice place which understands what hackathons are, and provides what is > considered the lifeblood of a hackathon - working WiFi. Balaji > (@openbala) was incredibly awesome, and this entire thing would've not > been possible at all without him and ThoughtWorks. > 2. Dorai Thodla: He helped popularize the hackathon among the Chennai > Geeks crowd, and acted as a sounding board at various important times. > He also connected us with @openbala and enabled us to get the venue. > Thanks! > 3. Srikanth Lakshmanan: The hackathon was his idea, and he made sure > it was executed in a nice way. He was the official 'organizer', and > made sure that all logistics were taken care of. Once the event > started, he was very helpful in helping people technically and in > picking up ideas, while also hacking on his own patch. This event was, > in essence, organized and run by him. He took an overnight trip from > Hyderabad straight out of office just for this. Thanks for making this > possible! > 4. Shrini (aka the relentless forwarder): This event wouldn't have > been as much a success without him either. Evangelism across multiple > lists, adding a lot of ideas that could be done, helping the people > there out technically at all times and writing two really good hacks - > Thank you! I'm glad we get to keep you :) > 5. Subhashish Panighrahi: For sending us stickers :D (And who all is > involved in that logistical process too!) > > Most of all, this event was a success because of the quality and > dedication of the people who turned up, giving up their Saturdays. > Hope everyone who turned up had a nice time :) I am personally in > touch with most of them, and I also have their email address, phone > number *and* permission to contact them again. If anyone here thinks > that they liked one of the hacks and want to take it further, please > contact me (User:Yuvipanda on Mediawiki.org or [hidden email]) > and I'll get you people in touch. If there is a more accepted, > standard way of handling this type of private information, please let > me know as well! > > Thanks! > > - > Yuvi Panda T > http://yuvi.in > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > [hidden email] > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list [hidden email] To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l |
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Congratulations yuvi, srikanth and others involved. The amount of productive work done is simply awesome.
A feature request for future hackathons: An online tool/gadget/extension for conversion of .wav/.mp3 to ,ogg files is required. This could be made part of the commons upload wizard itself (where people click an extra option while uploading a .mp3/.wav file and it gets saved as a .ogg file). - Bala On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Konarak Ratnakar <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> 1. Can Shrinivasan (or anyone else) provide us with english subtitles or
> english audio of the video that you uploaded on Youtube? Here it is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd4KNbNX4_Y > 2. Can Shrinivasan update the Readme file on > voice-recorder-for-tawictionary / repo? https://github.com/tshrinivasan/voice-recorder-for-tawictionary/blob/master/README Thanks for your interest. -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free/Open Source Jobs : http://fossjobs.in Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list [hidden email] To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l |
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Hoi,
I have done some blogging about the Chennai hackathon. Really good news is that one of the tools, the "Random Good WP India article tool" is now available on line at srik.me/WPIndia . Thanks, Gerard PS there is more to tell :) On 27 March 2012 10:17, Yuvi Panda <[hidden email]> wrote: The Chennai Unofficial Wikimedia Hackathon Report _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list [hidden email] To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l |
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On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Gerard Meijssen <[hidden email]> wrote: Hoi, OMG! I love this. The first article that turned up when I clicked on the link was:
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Hey, it turned up the following articles for me:
Not Good articles at all. Sincerely, Ashwin
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On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 16:22, Ashwin Baindur <[hidden email]> wrote: -- Hey, it turned up the following articles for me: From the original mail. It is a simple tool that shows you one B, A, GA or FA article every time you go there. Its "Good" as in good for reading, not necessarily GA Regards Srikanth.L _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list [hidden email] To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l |
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he he he, you fooled us!
Ashwin
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Hey bala!
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Bala Jeyaraman <[hidden email]> wrote: An online tool/gadget/extension for conversion of .wav/.mp3 to ,ogg files is required. This could be made part of the commons upload wizard itself (where people click an extra option while uploading a .mp3/.wav file and it gets saved as a .ogg file). Building such a server (that does conversion) is a relatively simple technical process, and something I'm willing to start undertaking. What kind of UploadWizard integration are you looking for?
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Yuvi, Is it possible for the upload wizard to automatically 'detect' the filetype based on the extension and offer to convert it into the required filetype? This would be great for audio and video.
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On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <[hidden email]> wrote:
It is technically possible and something that WMF is looking at (IIRC). However, the troubles are mostly legal in nature - MP3 and H264 (major audio and video formats) are patented and have a lot of restrictions involved in them. Navigating through those is quite a mess, and I'm not sure if they can even be navigated at all (considering the 'free everything' philosophy).
What we *can* do is have a third party tool that converts audio/video from any source into a 'free' source that commons will accept. This also has legal issues, however. But they will be towards the third party providing the tool, rather than towards Wikipedia itself.
This is primarily a legal problem, rather than a technical problem. I'm not particularly sure how to handle this.
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Yuvi, much thanks to you, to Srikanthlogic, and to the others who made
this event possible. It sounds like a great success. Sorry for the late reply. > It was a one day, 8 hour event focusing on getting people > together to hack on stuff related to all Wikimedia projects - not just > Mediawiki patches. Fantastic idea. And one-day events are a totally reasonable length, and easier for first-time event-runners to run. > As people came in, we asked them what technologies/fields they are > familiar with, and picked out an idea for them to work on from the > Ideas List (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Chennai_Hackathon_March_2012/Ideas). > This took care of the biggest problem with hackathons with new people > - half the day spent on figuring out what to work on, and when found, > it is completely outside the domain of expertise of the people hacking > on the idea. Talking together with them fast to pick an idea within 5 > minutes that they can complete in the day fixed this problem and made > sure people can concentrate on coding for the rest of the day. That's a really great tactic and one that I hope to copy for future outreach events. Can you add it (and any other tricks up your sleeve) to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Volunteer_coordination_and_outreach/Event_planning ? > Demos > ===== I strongly appreciate your consolidated list of names and links -- thanks. > Vivek is also applying to work with Mediawiki for > GSoC, so we will hopefully get a long term contributor :) And of course anyone is welcome to work with us outside of GSoC as well. (obligatory reminder) I forwarded the "all unique words in Tamil Wikipedia" project link to the researchers on wiki-research-l. > 4. Program to help record pronunciations for words in tawikt > Is currently blocked on figuring out a way to > properly upload to commons You should consider consulting Maarten Dammers and Ryan Kaldari on that as they are seasoned experts on the social and technical intricacies of Commons mass upload. > 6. Structured database search over Wikipedia > https://github.com/ashwanthkumar/structured-wiki-search. You could tell Ashwanth to get in touch with those "Swipe" folks from http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21625-new-search-tool-to-unlock-wikipedia.html . > 7. Photo upload to commons by Email > I hope someone from the community (perhaps people doing WLM?) > should be able to get in touch with him to see if this tool could > be developed further with a specific goal in mind. Yes, talk to Maarten and to the Wiki Loves Monuments people. > 8. Lightweight offline Wiki reader I presume you've already told offline-l? :-) > He's still fixing things on the script. If the community needs people > to come fix up their user scripts/gadgets, Bharath would be a willing > (and awesome!) candidate! That sounds terrific! Please do ask him to contact me. > 1. WikiPronouncer > By: Russel Nickson > I think this would still be a very useful tool, and > hope someone from the community steps up to work with Russel and get > this finished. Talking with Yuvi to ask him about getting developers who know Android involved. (mobile-l.) > 2. Wiktionary cross lingual statistics > By: PranavRC > > What it was supposed to do: > It was a statistical tool that generated statistics about how many > words overlap between all indic languages in Wiktionary (as measured > by interwiki links). > > Status: > The code has been written (I've requested the author to put it up > publicly, will update list when it is). It, however, requires a lot of > time to be run. So validation by the community that such stats would > be useful would, IMO, definitely give Pranav the impetus to finish it > up and show us the pretty graphs :) Ask wiki-research-l and point them to Pranav's code? If you aren't on that list, give me an email to forward and I will. Or ask Dario to do so. > Next Steps > ========== > Where do we go from here? Random thoughts: > > 1. Geek retention - this is reasonably easy. If we keep feeding > hackers interesting problems that affect a lot of people, they'll keep > helping us out. Is it possible to have some sort of a 'tools required' > or 'hacks required' or 'gadgets required' page/queue someplace where > we can always direct hackers looking for interesting problems to? IMO > Wikipedia is full of interesting technical problems, so this *should* > be feasible. We have https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_large_bugs as a start but it's not quite right, as it's pretty MediaWiki-centric. And every community has its own wishlist and isn't likely to come off-wiki to add to yet another one, so probably the best thing to do is to simply compile links to more those wishlists at the bottom of https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_large_bugs#See_also . > 2. Follow ups - this time, I am able to do this personally (small > enough group). Clearly this will not scale. Do we have ideas/methods > for following up with these people so that they stay with us? If you could answer this question definitively, you could instantly achieve a stable career as a religious or political leader. :-) Over and over we see that there is simply no substitute for personal followup and delegating right-sized tasks. Our best investment is in that personal followup and in building infrastructure for ourselves (contact lists, databases, boilerplate emails). > 3. More of these? This was pretty much a 'zero cost' event - stickers > were the only 'cost'. A lot of places around the country would love to > have their space used for a hackathon of sorts. Should we do more of > these kind of 'Unofficial' hackathons? Yes, but only if we can prepare for them as well as you did. 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OH, great page thanks, Here is a great website about National sister day, which is coming up a new event.
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