The 2025 Hackathon opening ceremony marks the official start of our annual event. All participants are expected to attend this session.

Date: Friday, May 2, 2025

Time: 9:30am EEST / 6:30am UTC

Duration: 1 hour 30 mins

Streaming Link: https://www.youtube.com/live/0HHNirvItr8

Slides: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Hackathon_-_Opening_Ceremony_-_Istanbul,_Turkey,_May_2,_2025.pdf

Agenda (Etherpad with agenda and notes)

• Welcome! (5 min)
• Introduction from Wikimedia Türkiye (5 min)
• Logistics introduction (20 min) - Organizing Team
• Project pitch (50min, facilitation: @siebrand)
• Closing & next steps (5min, speaker: tbd)

Note Takers: Manavpreet, Chinmayee

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Date & time: Friday, May 2, 2025 at 9:30 am EEST / 6:30 am UTC

Relevant links

Phabricator task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T391685
Phabricator board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/7491/
Streaming Link (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/live/0HHNirvItr8
Opening Ceremony Slide: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Hackathon_-_Opening_Ceremony_-_Istanbul,_Turkey,_May_2,_2025.pdf

Agenda

Welcome!
Introduction from Wikimedia User Group Turkey
Logistics introduction (20 min - Organizing Team)
Project pitch (50min, facilitation: tbd)
Closing & next steps (5min, speaker: tbd)

Project pitches

Take the mic for 30 seconds max

• No slides or screen sharing
• You should say:
  • Your (user)name
  • What you’re planning to work on
  • What kind of support you need
  • How people can contribute
  • How people can reach out to youBack to your seat and post your introduction in the IRC/Telegram group; add links & more info as needed
• Recorded (we’ll keep 5 min at the end for people who want to present off-record)
• Start queuing up now next to the stage to present! If you’re attending remotely and/or if there’s no time left: you can use IRC/Telegram group (@wmhack) to pitch your project.

1. James Forrester
2. Wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia
3. Also available for questions on Gerrit, CI, production, general MediaWiki, etc.

2. Kim Sarabia
3. Building lightweight tool that runs on English Wikipedia articles and quietly flags gendered or outdated language—terms like “female scientist,” “manpower,” or “unmanned.” These phrases still show up all over the place, often unintentionally, and Wikipedia’s own Manual of Style actually recommends gender-neutral alternatives.
4. I just wanted to make something helpful for editors who care about how we frame people—especially in biographies and professional descriptions—but who don’t have time to manually comb every paragraph for bias. Contact kimberly_sarabia (IRC)

3. Lucas Werkmeister
4. might work on making language names translatable (T231755)
5. want to move a project from GitHub to Wikimedia GitLab, could use help from people who know about GitLab CI and doc.wikimedia.org (T392290)
6. contact me or Taavi if you want an invite code for the wikis.world Mastodon server :)

4. Isabelle Hurbain-Palatin (ihurbain on IRC, with my name on Telegram)

we're in the progress of deploying Parsoid as default parser for all wikis; if you have any question or concern about Parsoid compatibility with your bots, gadgets, workflows, how to test that, how to make it work, talk to me :)
more info https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Parser_Unification

5. Vera (User:1Veertje)
6. ...

6. Haley
7. prototype of Commons upload flow in iOS app

7. Dmitry
8. session on games with data from Wikimedia projects
   • User:Ainali: I have made this super simple game to guess from which article an image is. Please steal the idea and improve it :) https://aina.li/wp-image-quiz/index.php

8. aude
9. charts
10. tabular data on commons
11. ....

9. Halley
10. API documentation
11. Rebuild the REST API Sandbox using Codex: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T388910
12. API Listening Tour -- come share your questions, comments, concerns, and ideas about the future of Wikimedia web (HTTP) APIs!

10. William (User:Dreamy Jazz)
11. temporary accounts
12. testing, maintenance scripts

11. Nathan
12. prove me gadget (adding references)

12. Olga
13. Centralized place for moderators (session later today: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T393023)

13. Daan @Daanvr
14. suggestion engine for categories and SDC statements
15. need help with infrastructure like Toolforge and buiding API endpoints (logic is already built)

14. Bernhard (Wikimedia Austria; User:Krabina)
15. session on Semantic MediaWiki (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T392757)

working on improving extensions related to SMW, especially regarding MW 1.43 compatiblitiy
also want to bring data from the Vienna History Wiki to Wikidata

15. Derek (designer at WMF)
16. Can offer Codex support
17. Seeking input on diff styling (colors, e.g. red/green, blue/yellow)

16. Dan (Future Audiences team)
17. Twitter(-like?) feed of real-time updates and trending topics

17. Max (User:Kristbaum)
18. Native Android, (soon iOS, problems with App Store) (and also web) app for easily creating games to edit Wikimedia Content. Try it at https://como.toolforge.org/
19. Would also like to add template examples for https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UnlinkedWikibase

18. Ferdinando (Wikimedia Italy) @Ferdi2005
19. Invite to help improve the new Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) web app (currently used by WMIT and WMIE) on https://app.wikilovesmonuments.it
20. Django and React
21. Aims to make it usable for more countries

19. James Hare
20. Database of citations in English Wikipedia articles
21. Talk to James about citations
22. Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) with "unsplit" graph (scholarly articles + everything else)
23. query service with more than just Wikidata data

20. - Extend functionality using Golang
21. Wiki Loves Folklore
22. Gift up for grabs on task completion!

21. Jorge Gemetto (Wikimedistas Uruguay)
22. Paulina (Wikidata-based tool to search for authors, identifiers, works in public domain, all GLAM stuff)
23. Flask
24. https://paulina.toolforge.org/

22. ... (WMF fundraising team)

Wenjun Fan
-To integrate a feature flag and ab testing tool (Growthbook) for internal tester for any new features released in the futuer

• would like to see if there is any product group people here since they are working on to self serve this service
• will use php and js for now with wiki payments for use cases and a small demo

23. Ranjith (Wikimedians of Kerala UG)
24. Everything is Connected (game originally created by Denny Vrandečić)
25. https://eicgame.toolforge.org/
26. Working on WS Review tool (rebuilding WSContest) for conducting WS Edit-a-thons 24.
27. Central repository for Models
28. Machine Learning topics

25. Sudhanshu (Language Team)
26. ContentTranslation tool
27. Designer
28. Happy to help with Paulina or AI Image filter

26. Krishna Chaitanya (KC)
27. Data analysis, metrics. visualisations

27. Ismael Olea (Olea)
28. Wikibase call for action and the Wikibase Zone: https://olea.org/diario/2025/04/14/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2025-proposals-Wikibase.html
29. Please join the unconference session at the Ankara room: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T392679

28. Cory (Abstract Wikipedia team)
29. Wikifunctions
30. Only supports Python and Javascript at the moment, want to add support for other languages

29. Gopa Vasanth
30. Translate Tagger

Tool: https://translatetagger.toolforge.org/
Desc: To simplify working with translate tags on wiki pages.
Help requied: Looking for the feedback to make the tool more useful and powerful.
Contact: @Gopavasanth (telegram)

30. Artur (Wikimedia Brasil) User:ACorrêa (WMB)
31. QuickStatements 3.0
32. Creating a statistics dashboard for QuickStatements 3.0, needs help selecting a JS library for graphics

31. Derek (Product Platform team?)
32. Can offer help with setting up Mediawiki locally on your laptop

32. Hugo Lopez (User:Yug)
33. Wikimedia Language Diversity Hub
34. LinguaLibre (tool to record audio of words in multiple languages)

33. Mykola Trokhymovych
34. Improving multilingual revert risk model
35. improving text-to-speech for articles
36. Do you now about Extension:Wikispeech? WMSE is working actively on it and it would make sense to collaborate.

34. Marios
35. AutoWikiBrowser; open to questions and suggestions
36. together with Sam (reedy)

34. Valerio Bozzolan
35. Phabricator/Phorge
36. Implement oEmbed protocol in MediaWiki

35. Amir (Ladsgroup)
36. SRE, infrastructure, databases
37. can talk about a lot of stuff

36. Ed Sanders, David Lynch, David Chan (Editing Team)
37. EditCheck tool (provides warnings before saving edits)
38. Talk to us about anything related to VisualEditor

37. Lina, Mell, Eline (technical wishes team at WMDE)
38. Working on references at the moment, esp. in VisualEditor
39. Would like to get your feedback on a new feature for VisualEditor called Sub-referencing
40. Come s your thoughts and ideas about improving Citations and References

38. Kevin Payravi (User:SuperHamster)
39. WikiPortraits (wikiportraits.org)
40. need help to build workflows using e.g. QuickStatements

39. Bhsd
40. Extension:CodeMirror
41. VSCode LSP extension for wikitext (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Bhsd.vscode-extension-wikiparser)
42. lint-wiki-dumps on Toolforge (https://lint-wiki-dumps.toolforge.org/) that lists additional lint errors for wikitext
43. TypeScript wikitext parser wikiparser-node (https://npmjs.com/package/wikiparser-node) that can be used in Node.js and browser

40. Birgit
41. Various sessions today and tomorrow, starting with an overview today after lunch

41. Tiago Lubiana (Brazil)
42. Portuguese/Spanish speaking session, let's connect
43. Latin languages/communities session (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T392770)

42. Taavi
43. Wikimedia Cloud Services SRE
44. Debian packages for MediaWiki
45. making the MediaWiki release tarballs reproducible

43. … (Wikimedia Iran user group)
44. Reducing dependency on Google services
45. Working on privacy-respecting ticket reservation tool

44. Daniel Kinzler
45. all things API
46. REST API vs action API

45. Jay Prakash
46. Montage, the photo jury tool
47. Frontend in Vue.js and Codex

46. David Caro (SRE), Sarai (designer)
47. Cloud Services team (also Taavi, Arturo, Bryan as honorific team member)
48. Issues with cloud services, Cloud VtPS, Toolforge
49. Toolforge UI; there's an initial design and they want to test the prototype with anyone interested! Intro session to Toolforge UI takes place Saturday at 11:30h

if you have questions/need help/want to chat about toolforge or cloud vps hosting for tools reach out to me or arturo or taavi, there's an unconference today at 12:30 about latest features there, and a workshop at 14:00 in case you want help with getting started/setting something up. And if you are interested on helping with the toolforge UI/striker 2.0 redesign reach out to me or sarai, cheers!

47. Bhuvana Meenakshi (Telegram: kbmfsa)
48. Wiki For All- For students and academia to learn about MediaWiki

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForAll

48. Jinoy (Wikimedians of Kerala UG / Telegram: Gnoeee)
49. Visualize edits from Wikidata on maps using Wikimedia streams API
50. Planning to add more features like what edits have been made
51. Include edits from other Wikimedia projects

https://wdrecentchanges.toolforge.org/

49. Tom (tarrow; WMDE)
50. Wikibase Cloud team
51. Wikidata & Wikibase
52. Adapting tools to work on other Wikibases
53. Querying
54. Running MediaWiki on Kubernetes (if you’re not the WMF)

50. Máté (Trust&Safety team)
51. SecurePoll for local administrator elections

52. Quechua language and Wikidata lexemes

52. Nacaru (WMLGBT+, WMES)
53. WMLGBT+ in Spanish webpage (https://wmlgbt-es-web.toolforge.org)
54. Creating a module for Twinkle Lite (Twinkle in Spanish Wikipedia) for easy moves to user's sandboxpage (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T393137)

53. Wolfgang + Maria
54. documenting excursions(?) using Semantic MediaWiki, Wikidata, OpenStreetMap
55. Federated queries

54. Anton (From Ukraine), User:Tohaomg
55. Bots
56. Web scraping
57. User scripts
58. Lua modules

55. Philippe Saadé - AI project manager for Wikimedia Deutchland
56. Semantic search on Wikidata items. Making Wikidata more accessible to the open-source AI community: https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Embedding_Project

56. Sam Reed (Reedy)
57. Rights for anything (probably) in WMF production and access for CI
58. security team
59. 2FA and yubikeys
60. Can add you to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalUsers/oathauth-tester to enable 2FA (TOTP/WebAuthn) on your SUL account
61. Testing passkeys on weird devices (Android devices etc)

57. Ollie Hyde (formally Shotton) (Wikibase Data Reuse team at WMDE)

Feedback or help on:

• Wikibase REST API
• Wikibase action API
• Wikidata Query Service
• Data Dumps

58. André Barbosa (Alchimista)
59. Can offer help with bots, specifically pywikibot, automatic editions and data processing
60. Will work on a tool to monitor Wikidata edits on informationl

59. ... (Acrion-dev)
60. Presentation tomorrow about Wikidata processing using zelph
61. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T391618

60. Adam Shorland (Addshore)
61. Anything Wikibase / Wikidata related
62. mwcli https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cli Mediawiki developer environemtn & other developer focused Wikimedia CLI tools

61. ... Edward Betts
62. OpenStreetMap + Wikidata

62. Wikimedia Enterprise...
63. Citations, Wikidata, Wikibase

63. Mike Peel
64. Wants help identifying/tagging photos on Commons,
65. Session for tagging hackathon photos: T391640

64. Simon (User:simon04)
65. Locator tool https://locator-tool.toolforge.org/#/ for photos, backend implemented in Python https://github.com/simon04/locator-tool/blob/master/backend/app.py, wants to use OAuth 2.0 in JavaScript and remove Python

65. Bryan Davis (bd808)
66. Support anyone with roadblocks
67. Cloud Services, GitLab, CI, OAuth (a bit), …
68. Content proxy to load JavaScript from Gitlab in user scripts

66. Doug (User:Douginamug)
67. new here 👋
68. would love to help with UX stuff, terrified by WM tool ecology 😅
69. plan to improve docs, especially for non-WMF use of mediawiki