Community Tech/Wishathon
What is the Community Tech Wishathon?
Every year Community Tech get lots of proposals from technical contributors that get voted for by the community — we then review the first 30 for technical complexity, design complexity and community impact.
There's always so many wonderful proposals that we often don't get a chance to work on, so we found it's a great cause for a hackathon, which allows us to work on distinct, previously unselected tasks.
Given that one of our main goals for the current and the coming quarters is to increase cross-team and cross-departmental collaboration, we decided to join with other teams, combine our efforts and organise together. We feel like our teams want to initiate collaboration as we touch so many codebases and want to learn from each other.
Since May 2022, Community team has hosted quarterly online Hackathons to engage the Wikimedia Foundation staff in helping to deliver wishes the team doesn't have the capacity to work on.
Hackathon? CodeJam? Wishathon??
It's all the same way of describing an event "in which computer programmers and others involved in software development and hardware development, including graphic designers, interface designers and project managers, collaborate intensively on software projects."
Next edition
The next edition of the Wishathon will be held on 15–17 March 2024. See the event page for more information.
Past editions
2023, September 25–29
Hackathon Projects:
- Enable 180°-360° metadata detection and embed/navigate capabilities in Commons/MediaViewer
- Quickly add favorite and related templates
- Warn when adding a url reference that matches the SpamBlacklist
- Fix/rewrite BaGLAMa 2
2023, May 8–12
Hackathon Projects:
- Add ability to share QR code for a page in any Wikimedia project
- Change information about the number of watchers on a page
- New users should see the deletion log when visiting a deleted page on English Wikipedia
2022, December 12–16
Hackathon Projects:
- Get WhatLinksHere's lists in alphabetical order
- Slack Integration to update about replies on talk pages (continued)
- Wikisource - User Research to inform the Larger Suggestion of the platform needing support
- Show edit count on Special:Contributions
- Enable negation for tag filters
- Enable Thanks Button by default in Watchlists and Recent Changes
- PageTriage Investigation & bug fixes (continued)
- Missing LaTeX capabilities for maths rendering (continued)
- Gadget: Autosuggest linking Wikidata item after creating an article (continuing work)
2022, September 26–30
Hackathon Projects:
- Gadget: Autosuggest linking Wikidata item after creating an article (continuing work)
- Select preview image
- PageTriage Investigation & bug fixes
- Missing LaTeX capabilities for maths rendering
- Rewrite AddMe
- Slack Integration to update about replies on talk pages
2022, May 9–13
Hackathon Projects: