We would love to hear about your Wikimania 2025 experience! This task is for participants who would like to share their experience via Blog Posts.
General guidance
Here are some points that you might want to consider in writing about your experiences at the Hackathon:
- Write for your audience. What can other Wikimedian's learn from your experience? What went well, what did you find thoughtful and interesting, what challenges did you discover and how might we overcome them? Sharing to encourage others is a great way to build interest for other folks. Some topic ideas:
- Event Recap who it is for, and its significance
- Important takeaways from the hackathon
- Talk about your experience related to the program’s success for this year
- Capture developer experiences or conversations with an interesting perspective
- Any social media mentions. Did folks have an interesting conversation or experience they shared on social media? Write about it!
- Anything that you would like to tell people attending next year
- Keep it accessible. Not everyone is as tech savvy as you! Try and write for a general audience to include the most amount of people. Explaining abbreviations or jargon can go a long way to increase awareness and interest of what the technical community is up to. Keep your writing simple (not everyone is a native speaker!) and try for a total length of the post to about 600 words. Your post can be a little shorter or longer, there's no hard limit. If longer, consider breaking the post up into a series of posts so folks can digest it easier.
- Use a creative headline. Some ideas include: How First-Time Hackathon Participants Moved From Rookies to Pros, From Idea to Reality: The Evolution of Wikimania Hackthon'23 Projects, Five Lessons for Developers from the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023, Behind the Scenes: The Hackathon Organisers' Struggles and Triumphs, or any other exciting headline you come up with!
- Choose a nice "featured" image. This can be of you or a group working at the Hackathon, a photo of the venue, or some other picture related to your experience. If that's not easy to do, find something colorful or abstract on Commons related to your work – a rainbow, folks working together, a fun animal. These images will anchor your post on the blog homepage and when shared on social media
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