Hitchwiki:BXL hackathon

BXL hack for freedom, fun (and profit?)

when: September 23rd - October 8th

where: guaka's apartment, Brussels

What can you do?

 * come over to Brussels
 * hack on stuff from elsewhere
 * clean up wiki through special pages
 * add links to dead end pages
 * Link to orphaned pages (pages that don't have any link towards them)
 * fix double redirects and broken redirects
 * Check pages with few revisions
 * Add content to short pages
 * Find matching articles in other languages [[File:Good.png]] Done!
 * categorize
 * What to do with unused categories?
 * create wanted categories
 * templates
 * Create wanted templates

WordPress stuff

 * work on frontpage
 * more integration with mediawiki
 * Fix login mw<->wp, é's in usernames don't work etc.
 * Autologin people to WP when they're logged in MW

Structural

 * tech pages on hitchwiki
 * set up dev.hitchwiki.org
 * more in git
 * set up bare git repo for everything
 * moved .git out of htdocs
 * set up git submodules - not sure about this, any git experts around? guaka 12:59, 25 September 2012 (CEST)
 * clean extensions
 * moved some to TRASH
 * would still like to keep Template:IsIn and RelatedSites but is not gonna be trivial
 * fine tune server
 * mysqltuner has some recommendations
 * clean up Hitchwiki project pages
 * move news-section to community and import rss-feed on Main_Page
 * allow .svg uploads so wanted files can be uploaded (mainly flags)

Upgrade

 * upgrade to latest mediawiki
 * on dev.hitchwiki.org now
 * Mikael: new design


 * upgrade extensions to latest versions
 * see LocalSettings.php and Special:Version (on dev)

other stuff at hackathon
hacking on
 * BeWelcome
 * trashwiki
 * triphopping (and spinoffs)
 * whatever startup you're bringing :)

Participants
guaka Callum Franck Mikael Michtit Toub Richard lemon-head Realitygaps Vincent Julien PabloBD Matthew

Communication
contact guaka for practical stuff (e.g. address)

Mailinglists

 * http://lists.bewelcome.org/mailman/listinfo/bw-dev-discussion
 * http://groups.google.com/group/hitchwiki

IRC channels

 * #bewelcome
 * #hitchhiking (webchat)