This is a Wikipedia/Wikimedia hackathon, where developers are invited
to come write cool hacks on top of the amazingly large amount of data
that the wikimedia projects (Wikipedia, Commons, Wiktionary,
Wikiquotes, Wikisource, etc.) expose in a huge variety of languages.
Hacks can be anything, from an Android app that gives you 'situation'
quotes from Wikiquote based on sentiment analysis of your text
messages, to an app that gives you wonderful images of the places you
are at using Commons, to beautiful visualizations with Wikipedia edit
histories, to automatic song/album information gathering from
Wikipedia, to amazing dictionary interfaces across languages using
Wiktionary, to anything else that you can dream up. We'll have a few
people who have experience with the various APIs/data available.
Note: This is not a MediaWiki hackathon - Patches/Extensions to
MediaWiki are most welcome, but you are by no means restricted to
that.
Date : Saturday, March 17, 2011
Venue : Thoughtworks, Taramani, Chennai
Contact : yuvipanda at wikimedia.org
Hashtag : #wikihackchennai
IRC : #mediawiki on FreeNode
For more details and to Register visit here.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Chennai_Hackathon_March_2012
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