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This is a draft proposal for an event focused on WMUK's future technical capacity. |
Background
The Wikimedia projects are based on MediaWiki. This software is developed both by volunteers and Wikimedia employees. The Wikimedia Foundation are the lead developers of MediaWiki: They lead the main development work for MediaWiki, as well as operating the Wikimedia projects. Recently, Wikimedia Deutschland has started significantly developing MediaWiki in terms of Wikidata. Wikimedia UK is in a good position to help develop MediaWiki over the next few years, and also to improve its existing technical tools.
This workshop aims to bring together experts in technology from both the Wikimedia movement and the UK tech community in order to set out what WMUK could do to help improve the Wikimedia technology infrastructure in the next few years, and what technical capacity WMUK would need to establish in order to do so.
The workshop will take place over the course of a weekend - dates TBC. The meeting would probably be best located at the WMUK office at Old Street, London.
Participants
- This event will be open to all that sign up to attend
- If you need travel sponsorship, and/or accommodation, please say so below, and provide an estimate of your travel costs. Note that if you do not provide an estimate in advance then we will assume that you do not need sponsorship or accommodation.
Agenda
Saturday
| Time | Topic | Lead |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00-10.15 | Welcome and orientation | ?? |
| 10.15-10.20 | Review of agenda | ?? |
| 10.20-11.00 | Summary and discussion of existing WMUK resources (including technical contractors and Technical Programme Manager, as well as the general WMUK projects) | ?? |
| 11.00-11.20 | Summary and discussion of QRpedia | ?? |
| 11.20-11.40 | Summary and discussion of the VLE | ?? |
| 11.20-12.45 | Other presentations | ?? |
| 12.45-13.00 | Summary of planned workshops | ?? |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch | — |
| 14:00-18:00 | Workshops | |
| 18:00 onwards | Informal discussion in a nearby pub |
Sunday
| Time | Topic | Lead |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00-12:00 | Additional presentations | |
| 12:00-13:00 | Open discussion | |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-17:00 | Workshops | |
| 17:00-18:00 | Wrap-up and close |
Workshops
The idea of workshops would be to discuss in detail topics relevant to WMUK.