Hitchwiki:BXL hackathon

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( documents • why we work on Hitchwiki )

BXL hack for freedom, fun (and profit?)

when: September 23rd - October 8th

where: guaka's apartment, Brussels

HItchwiki stuff to do

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 Done!
  • categorize
    • What to do with unused categories?
    • create wanted categories
  • templates
    • Create wanted templates

WordPress stuff

• work on frontpage
• more integration with mediawiki
  • login?

Structural

• on hitchwiki
• more in git
  • moved .git out of htdocs
  • set up git submodules
    • clean extensions
      • moved some to TRASH, more to check guaka 00:04, 24 September 2012 (CEST)
• fine tune server
  • mysqltuner has some recommendations
• clean up Hitchwiki project pages

Upgrade

• upgrade to latest mediawiki
• upgrade all extensions to latest versions

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)