Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026

Historically I’m terrible at post Hackathon write ups, though a few do exist… (#hackathon posts). For the past few days I have been attending the Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026 in Arnhem NL with around 70 other people. Around 42 projects were shown at the showcase, and I want to briefly look at some of those, and also document some of the other things that were going on in my vicinity.

On the whole, this was a great hcakathon, larger than the last NL organized hackathon, a beautifull venue, good organization, good food, good people, lots of conversation, and for me at least, everything was very convenient.

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WMDE: Metrics & Data Gatherings

Below you will find an internal WMDE presentation covering the general area of WMDE Metric & Data Gatherings from 2016. This presentation follows on from the initial introduction to engineering analytics activities. The presentation skims through: WMDE Grafana dashboards The Wikimedia Analytics landscape Grafana & graphite Hadoop, Kafka, Hive & Oozie EventLogging, Mysql replicas & … Read more

WMDE: Engineering Analytics Activities

This is an internal WMDE presentation given at the start of “metric driven development” for the WMDE & Wikidata dev teams. The presentation is pretty bare bones but it provides a general overview of the plan and links to the current state of things.  The main area of interest from the presentation is the … Read more