Welcome! 🎉
This task is a collection of vibecoding-style newcomer tasks for folks who don’t yet have a project to work on during the Hackathon. These tasks are designed to be approachable, useful, and a great way to contribute while exploring the Wikimedia technical space.
🔧 How to use this task:
- Browse the list below and pick something you'd like to work on.
- If there's already a Phabricator task linked, feel free to start working on it.
- If a task doesn't have a ticket yet, create one, link it here, Assign yourself (if you can), Tag it with Wikimania-Hackathon-2025
- Drop a comment on this task with what you’re working on so others know it's claimed.
🗂️ Task List
- A web app that lets you dynamically explore all of the different articles with a category. Scroll through the articles tik tok style, then switch to a different category.
- A web app that lets you explore all the Wikipedia article pictures from a country (i.e. for Turkey, explore all the photos that are in the articles for Istanbul, Ankara, etc). You can enter from a Map
- Someone could improve this vibe-coded project CommonsSwipe (repo, toolforge) to allow people to add new categories to the filters, or any other desired improvements
Some game ideas in the comments from the Istanbul Hackathon
- Article treasure hunt game (find 5 things within an article in X amount of time, or find things across articles)
- Matching game: match the 2 articles that happened at the same time in different places (would be fun to filter so one side is all related to your country). Or match which two people could have possibly met each other? (Match the two people who were alive during the same dates)
- 6th degree of connections - for famous people on Wikipedia, guess/match the 6 or fewer connections between them (links)
- Memory: You and the other players are sent to a random page. Each of you gets five minutes or less to scour the page. Then you are all sent to another page where the game starts asking questions. The person with the most correct answers wins.