Designers - WMF UX people, get them involved with this.

See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons#Planning_and_scheduling_content_before_the_hackathon for an ideal scenario.

Since Wikimania participation is basically all set, there is no need to put attention on the outreach developer activities.

Now there is a suggestion about having estable wiki pages for these sessions that we repeat in multiple events: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons#Preparing_the_schedule

Andre has somewhere some notes that could serve as sarting point for a page about his "Introduction to Phabricator" session.

Also, thanks to a casual email conversation started by @Rfarrand that ended up being connected with a Phabricator for real beginners workshop by @Elitre at the Wikimedia Conference, we also have some material to start this other page about such hands-on workshop (which we could have in Wikimania's Hackathon as well).

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons#Planning_and_scheduling_content_before_the_hackathon

Activities for newcomers. A track of introductory sessions is pre-scheduled with all the details and links to resources, allowing newcomers to prepare in advance. For instance:
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Other workshops around clonable microtasks, from the Google Code-in pool or similar kinds i.e. Adding TemplateData to templates.

In our last Technical Collaboration meeting @Johan mentioned that @Halfak and @Ladsgroup are looking for help from volunteer to bring ORES to more wikis. Could this be one of these activities supported by a workshop that we target on newcomers?

Hey @Qgil,
@Halfak won't be at the Wikimania this year, but I will be there [1] and we are actually planning to have such activities in the hackathon. That's what we've got so far:

• For languages that we are not supporting yet. It would be great to have a native speaker reviewing our list of bad words that we generate automatically. It doesn't require any knowledge about Wikipedia or any technical background. I'm running this generator for all languages with more than 100K articles (excluding botpedias (TM) such as cebwiki)
• For languages that already have ORES reverted model but not the damaging model (I explained the difference in this post) We need people to go through Wikipedia:Labels and label some edits. If we can have a training session for labeling edits, that would be great. Biggest problem right now is that if several people try to use our labeling system at the same time. It acts strangely (T130872: [Investigate] Intermittent performance issues with wikilabels). We are making a lot of performance improvements and It'll probably be solved by the time of Wikimania.
• For languages that have damaging model, We can work on enabling MediaWiki-extensions-ORES Some translations in translatewiki would be needed and someone with access to prod to deploy changes and run some maintenance scripts. IIRC, We can't deploy the extension at the time of Wikimania since there is no deployment window traditionally when Wikimania is holding but we can make progress to do it right after the conference.

[1] Like always depends on visa but 1- It'll be determined in May 8th. 2- It's very likely to get it.

Thank you @Ladsgroup! Feel free to create a task to track these ORES activities. When you do this, mark it as blocker of this task, please.

I will help labeling the damage and good faith samples on arwiki