Thank you Greg! @Rfarrand is on vacation this week, and I just sent an email to the Wikimania 2015 organizers letting them known about the existance of the Wikimania-Hackathon-2015 project in Phabricator.

Even if we need Hackathon information at https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/, I would not publish anything until we have a common idea of the basic plan shared with the organizers. The last time I spoke with them was at Wikimania 2014 in London last Summer, and right now I don't know whether Rachel has followed up with them.

There are at least three things that I would like to do differently this year:

• Better integration with the rest of Wikimania. I don't know whether there is still time for this, but I was proposing 3 days of Hackathon and 3 days of Wikimania with one day overlapping (2 in total) as opposed to the traditional 2 days Hackathon followed by 3 days Wikimania.
• Call for participation run in Phabricator, like we have done (successfully, I think) for the MediaWiki Developer Summit.
• Special focus on activities for local developers and editors (aka international newcomers).

I like the idea of replicating what was done for the Summit. My impression talking to folks at the office right afterward was that it was a big success!

I just have created https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon/Buddies in order to support the idea of pairing buddies for the Wikimania Hackathon.

There is a detail in the Wikimania 2015 site: subpages don't offer a link to the parent page. Hackathon/Buddies doesn't offer an automatic link to Hackathon, as it happens in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lyon_Hackathon_2015/Buddies and in your average MediaWiki. You do get "From Wikimania 2015 • Mexico City, Mexico", but I wonder how is that needed in every single page...

Made some updates: https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon