WMDE Technical Wishes/Meetings
A list of meetings, workshops, talks, discussions ... related to the Technical Wishes Project, technical collaboration and/or community centered software development in the past and near future:
Past events
[edit]WikiCon 2018 in St. Gallen
[edit]- Session: Softwareproblemen auf der Spur (German)
- Session: Diskussion zum Technischen Wunsch "Geschlechterspezifische Anzeige der Kategorien im Artikel" (German)
Wikimania 2018 in Capetown
[edit]- Session Building tools to serve diverse users: Community centered Software Development
- Session Technical Advice IRC Meeting: Wikimania Special (Hackathon)
- Session Improving the edit conflict resolution screen: Methods, mistakes and mystery (Hackathon)
Wikimedia Hackathon 2018 in Barcelona
[edit]Developer Summit 2018
[edit]DiversityCon 2017 in Stockholm
[edit]- Session: Reaching Diversity through Technology on Sunday, Nov 5, 11:30 am (session slides).
Wikicon 2017 in Leipzig
[edit]- Session: The state of Technical Wishes & the 2017 survey (German) (session slides (German))
- Session: Introduction to Wikimedia Tech (German)
- Feedback corner: We had a booth at the conference, where we gathered feedback on technical wishes that are not yet in development.
Wikimania 2017 in Montreal
[edit]- Session at Wikimanial: Introduction to the 2017 survey results and discussion on Sat, August 12th (Session slides)
- Sessions at the Hackathon:
- Improving Mediawiki - What to do, when you're new on Wednesday, August 9th
- (New) developers and Mediawiki - how to become BFFs part II on Thursday, August 10th
Tech on Tour 2017
[edit]To kick off the 2017 technical wishes survey, we went on tour through Germany and Austria: In 5 cities contributors and software developers met to discuss, frame and submitt technical wishes to the 2017 survey.
Wikimedia Hackathon 2017 in Vienna
[edit]Wikimedia Conference 2017 in Berlin
[edit]- Session: Bringing collaborative approaches from Software Development into other partnerships (Sessions slides)
Developer Summit 2017 in San Francisco
[edit]- Session: Redesign the Special:Search page, jointly with Dan Garry (Video recording)
- Session on The top 10 of the 2016 international survey and the current projects of the German-speaking community's technical wishlist by the Community Tech team & wmde technical wishes (Video recording, Session slides)
Workshop serie on advanced search in 2016
[edit]The workshop serie on advanced search took place in 3 different cities in Germany in autumn 2016.
- More infos: WMDE_Technical_Wishes/AdvancedSearch/Workshop. As a result of the workshop serie, the AdvancedSearch extension has been developed.
Wikicon 2016 in Stuttgart
[edit]- Session: Overview on the Technical Wishlist and current work
- Session: Part I of the advanced search workshop serie (see above)
Wikimania 2016 in Esino Lario
[edit]- Edit conflict test session at the "edit conflicts and cookie corner" (a 2 hours long test session at the wmde booth in the community village)
- Session at the Wikimania Hackathon: Improving the resolution of edit conflicts
Wikimedia Conference 2016 in Berlin
[edit]- Session The Technical Wishes Project - Stories from the heart of community centered software development, in collaboration with the WMF's Community Tech team (session slides)
Wikicon 2015 in Dresden
[edit]- Session Technical Wishes Part I - Tech on Tour and the Technical Wishes Concept
- Session Technical Wishes Part II - Live launch of the 2015 survey
Tech on Tour 2015
[edit]- Tech on Tour has been a serie of meetings in 5 different cities in Germany between March and May 2015. Besides talking about concrete technical needs, we were discussing the best methods to gather and prioritize technical needs of diverse users. The results of Tech on Tour 2015 became a part of the Technical Wishes Concept (PDF).