This task is now linked from the Wikimania 2019 Hackathon page! :)

@Bmueller & @srishakatux: start working here! :)

@srishakatux & @Bmueller: Hello, we will be opening general registration for wikimania sometime between May 13-15. Can you please make sure to update this task description with more details by then?
Thanks!

Hi @Rfarrand thanks for the heads up! We will talk this week and provide more infos by end of this week.

@Rfarrand done!

@Bmueller perfect, thank you! If you would like me to edit the text here at all (not sure if that wiki is locked to editing): https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Hackathon , I guess not everyone will click the link.
let me know and I can make the change!

Hey @Rfarrand that would be awesome, thank you very much!

More thoughts on how to bridge over to Wikimania: One idea could be: We use the Hackathon days mostly for train the trainers, creation of tutorials, translation corner & 1:1 support for the people who already show up at the Hackathon - and the Wikimania for workshops, discussion panel, support desk etc. This would mean we either need to submit workshops (bot workshop, gadget workshop, template workshop) to the Wikimania program, or the space at Wikimania has to be big enough to run workshops.

Adding @Andrew and @aborrero as subscribers here. Hopefully they can think of some things from the cloud-services-team point of view that they can help with this area.

I'll be interested in participating in this small wiki toolkit hackathon. At the Cantonese Wikipedia we've been trying to build bots to generate league tables of best contributors and automate some routine maintenance, and it'll be nice to see whether other wikis have done similar things so we don't repeat ourselves.

Hey @deryckchan, yay! This is the kind of project we had in mind when coming up with the idea for this focus area :-)
We're also thinking about setting up a "problem looking for existing solution" board to help matching people, problems & ideas/existing solutions beforehand/during the hackathon/wikimania. We could set it up onwiki & link to it when promoting the focus area, and create a physical version for the hackathon/wikimania in addition. What do you think? Any other ideas?

Hi all. I'll be at the hackathon, and would be happy to talk about / work on wikidata generated infoboxes there (amongst other things, e.g., using pywikibot).

Hi @Mike_Peel, sounds great! I added your name to the collection of ideas in the task description :-)

Hey all, I have updated the task description with a few news on accepted sessions & the dedicated space at Wikimania :-)

https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Languages/Wikidata_Infoboxes has also been accepted.

In T221394#5350014, @Mike_Peel wrote:

https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Languages/Wikidata_Infoboxes has also been accepted.

Great! I added it to the list in the task description.

Could I suggest that some people look/work on T212881 ? (not "small wiki" per se, but pre-small wiki ;) )

@VIGNERON: AFAIK the scope of the toolkit are technically interested folks on small wikis who would like to perform technical tasks for and on their wikis...

Ok, I understand. I was just suggested this as "incubated" wikis is the step just before "small" wikis.

During the hackathon we plan to run a Lua introduction and a workshop specifically about WikidataIB module - is that in the scope of the project, could we include it in the schedule? :)

In T221394#5367929, @Lea_Lacroix_WMDE wrote:

During the hackathon we plan to run a Lua introduction and a workshop specifically about WikidataIB module - is that in the scope of the project, could we include it in the schedule? :)

Hi @Lea_Lacroix_WMDE sounds good :-) I'll add it to the task description! Also please feel welcome to add the tickets as sub tickets to this one. The actual scheduling of sessions for the hackathon probably starts next week. If folks want to repeat the workshops as smaller office-hour-like versions during Wikimania, we're planning a meeting space in the main workshop building (Södra Huset) & will advertise the space over the next days :-) - we've just created a timetable here: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Small_wiki_toolkits#Community_booth_at_Wikimania.

Will you be preparing some slides soon for a workshop or session to share a technical skill that will benefit small wiki contributors? If so, I encourage you to take a look at the toolkit development guidelines here: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Small_wiki_toolkits#Developing_workshop_toolkits.

These guidelines focus on:

• Documenting all toolkits in one place.
• Uploading the PDF version to Wikimedia Commons with detailed notes to benefit both learners and potential trainers.
• Keeping the source of the PDF open so that anyone can build upon it.

See for reference, a toolkit that we created:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Userscript_and_Gadgets_workshop_toolkit.pdf

It would be nice if you could follow these guidelines to develop your workshop toolkits and share any feedback you might have!

Sneak preview :-) -

Sorry for the naive question, isn't this closely related to work that @Asaf has already done and/or plans to do? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Capacity_Development/On-wiki_technical_skills

In T221394#5420992, @Elitre wrote:

Sorry for the naive question, isn't this closely related to work that @Asaf has already done and/or plans to do? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Capacity_Development/On-wiki_technical_skills

@Elitre not sure what your question is here, but the ticket is not specifically related to a project/proposal from 2015 or the work of one person. It’s related to the work of many who have done projects & workshops in this area - i.e. different language communities run regional workshops, WMDE developed a Wikidata Train the Trainer program & the Technical Advice IRC meeting and organises documentation sprints. Asaf did workshops in this area, people from the tech community run workshops at conferences like Wikimania, others create video tutorials … . - Also I’d hope it will continue to be the work of many in the future :-)

I may misremember and maybe the link I provided didn't help (and I can't find better ones sadly), but I thought there may be something closely related in the current plans from the Community Development team. I understand you haven't connected on this.

Yes, we have not yet connected on this, and I had not been aware of this effort so far.

To clarify, the CCD work (for which research began in 2015, but to be clear, is still an ongoing-albeit-underfunded program) focused on a gap I had identified (at least at the time) -- while there were some training efforts on introducing developers to development with Mediawiki or with the API at the Wikimedia Hackathons and online, I did not see training efforts and effective teaching modules for technical skills for non-programmers, and so that was my focus.

The most significant work I have done in this area was Wikidata-for-Wikipedians training, wherein I introduced numerous communities who were, in my opinion, left behind in terms of Wikidata adoption, and encouraged them to go beyond interwiki links editing and labels, and really embrace Wikidata data modeling, querying, etc. But I have also been teaching people to use other technical tools such as PetScan, TABernacle, Video2commons, Pageview/Massviews/*, etc., and even to re-use Quarry queries without teaching SQL.

I am thrilled to hear about these new(er) efforts to build additional curricula for developers, but I think our efforts are still largely distinct, with little overlap.

Thanks for clarifying, and thanks both for the efforts in this area.

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Thank you for helping clean up a bit! :)

Ah, closed too early ;) - one last comment:

Summary & reflection from the Hackathon/Wikimania:

• Workshops & sessions had between 9 & 30 participants with partly very different skill levels
• Some workshops went really well, some gave food for thoughts on how to improve the concept
• The distribution across buildings at the Hackathon was not ideal, and probably lead to less people dropping by at the table itself
• Same for the meeting corner at Wikimania: It was great to have a place, but it usually works better with a central location (i.e. like Wikidata booth at Wikimania 2018)
• The meta-session "Building technical capacity for smaller wikis" brought many cool ideas what we could do/improve in the future, the results are gathered in this slide-deck: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Building_Technical_Capacity_in_Smaller_Wikis.pdf
• Page for follow-ups: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits, category on commons to drop/find toolkits: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Small_wiki_toolkits

A huge thanks to everyone for supporting this :-)
Also @Aklapper , thanks a lot for the reminder!