WMDE: CI, Deploys & Config changes intro
This is an internal WMDE presentation made to introduce people to the land of Wikimedia CI, MediaWiki deployment and config changes. This briefly covers: Jenkins & Zuul CI Config Beta Cluster SWAT The MediaWiki train Monitoring mediawiki-config The Docker & Kubernetes future?
Wikicite 2017: ‘extends’-attribute for ref-tag
This presentation was used as part of a lightning talk at Wikicite 2017 promoting the plan by the WMDE community tech team to implement an extends attribute for the ref tag in wikitext. The aim of the presentation was to prompt questions and discussion. This relates to phabricator ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151301
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 &…
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…
WMUK training event Wikidata presentation
In 2015 I attended another WMUK Wikidata training event. Below you can find the presentation that I used, created using slides.com.
Axel Springer Hack Day Presentation
During 2015 I attended another Axel Springer Hack Day similar to the one in 2014, with Wikidata being one of the APIs that was presented. The presentation can be seen below:
Wikimania Open Data Weekend
The Open Data Weekend was fringe event to the Wikimania conference this year. It took place in Frobisher Room One at The Barbican Centre in London on the 5 & 6th of July and was well attended. The weekend included: Discussion about how open data, specifically Wikidata, is helping the Wikimedia movement as a whole covering its current integration…
Spaghetti Open Data
Spaghetti Open Data is made up of a group of Italian citizens interested in the release of public data in open formats, in order to make it easy to access and reuse. Starting in 2010 they have had yearly conferences. I was lucky enough to be invited to their conference this year (SOD14) as the keynote speaker…
Media Hack Day 2014
The Media Hack Day is an annual event held at Axel Springer | Plug & Play Accelerator in Berlin. The event for March 2014 can be found on hackerleague.org. I attended representing the Wikidata API. Also in attendance were Axel Springer, storyful, Der Spiegel, sanoma, watchmi, Getty Images and embed.ly. It was in a great location, the food and rinks were…
Wikidata. What is it. Prezi presentations
Below you will find 2 old Prezi presentations that look at Wikidata very a very introductory standpoint. These presentations were using during a few events / workshops including: WMUK Wikidata Training 2013 Open Knowledge Finland workshop in 2013 some others..