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State of Wagtail
Published July 18, 2024
Twelve short interviews
This video features Tom Dyson and Will Barton at Wagtail Space US 2018 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Published June 25, 2018
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Very short interviews with 12 participants from Wagtail Space US 2018, at the Wharton School in Philadelphia.
Camerawork by Will Barton. Audio and editing by Tom Dyson.
Summary
Participants at the first US-based Wagtail Space introduce themselves and describe how they use Wagtail at organisations including the Wharton School, Freedom of the Press Foundation, Oxfam America, the Federal Election Commission, CFPB, and Columbia University. They report migrating from Mezzanine, improving accessibility, importing content from WordPress, building autocomplete and a new start page, adding logging, integrating Wagtail into a website, and upgrading its documentation. The event combines talks, tutorials, and collaborative sprinting, with participants helping one another make progress and contribute their first documentation commits.
Key takeaways
- Wagtail is being used by organisations including universities, nonprofits, government bodies, and news-focused groups.
- One team is migrating a website from Mezzanine to Wagtail, while others have used Wagtail for several years.
- Participants are improving accessibility, WordPress content import, editor autocomplete, logging, and site integrations.
- The event includes tutorials, talks, and sprinting on Wagtail’s documentation.
- Collaboration at the event helped participants make their first contributions to the Wagtail documentation.
Summarised automatically from the transcript.
Chapters
- 0:00 Wagtail Space Introductions Attendees introduce themselves and share where they are from.
- 0:19 Organizations and Wagtail Experience Participants describe their organizations and how long they have been using Wagtail.
- 1:00 Talks and Projects Interviewees discuss their conference talks and the Wagtail projects they are working on.
- 1:43 Sprints and Contributions Participants reflect on sprint work, documentation upgrades, and their first contributions.
Transcript
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0:00
Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Harris.
0:01
Speaker 2: My name is Struther Scott. I'm from Richmond, Virginia.
0:04
Speaker 3: Hi, I'm Zurina Mustafa and I'm from Columbia University.
0:08
Speaker 4: Hi, I'm Bill Torcasso.
0:09
Speaker 5: My name is Rana.
0:10
Speaker 6: Hi, my name is Erin.
0:11
Speaker 7: Hi, my name is Ryan Sullivan.
0:13
Speaker 2: Hi, my name is Scott.
0:14
Speaker 3: My name is Matiki. Hi, my name is Pat.
0:17
Speaker 6: Hi, I'm Dawn Wages from Raleigh, North Carolina.
0:19
Speaker 2: Hi, I'm Tim. I'm an IT director here at the Wharton School, and I'm very glad that we're hosting the first ever US-based Wagtail space.
0:26
Speaker 1: I work for the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
0:29
Speaker 5: I am the founder of Yellowpunk and one of the organizers here at Wagtail Space.
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Speaker 4: I'm here from Oxfam America.
0:35
Speaker 8: I work for the Federal Election Commission.
0:37
Speaker 3: Together we work at the CFPB. We've been using Wagtail for about two and a half years.
0:41
Speaker 6: I started learning Wagtail. In 2017, DjangoCon took a tutorial with Tom.
0:48
Speaker 4: We're converting our website from mezzanine into Wagtail. It's going very well.
0:54
Speaker 5: I have been using Wagtail for under a year now.
0:57
Speaker 8: We have been in Wagtail for about three years now.
1:00
Speaker 3: I was here to give a talk about how my department centered for teaching and learning at Columbia. Chooses Wagtail.
1:09
Speaker 1: Yesterday I gave a talk about the ways that we use Wagtail at the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
1:14
Speaker 7: Today at Wagtail Space we've been working on improving the accessibility of the Wagtail admin
1:19
Speaker 4: interface I've been looking at some community software about bringing content in from WordPress sites.
1:25
Speaker 3: Today I uh followed one of the tutorials given here.
1:30
Speaker 1: Today I'm working on a library called Wagtail Auto Complete to make the editor a little easier to use.
1:36
Speaker 2: I've been working on a new start page.
1:38
Speaker 7: I gave a talk on logging.
1:40
Speaker 5: And I'm currently working on integrating Wagtail into the Yellowpunk website.
1:43
Speaker 8: Today uh we did some sprinting and I worked on upgrading uh Wagtail documentation.
1:49
Speaker 6: I came to Wagtail Space to give a talk and today I'm sprinting. Yesterday I spent the day working with someone from Divio.
1:57
Speaker 4: Now I've made my first commit on Wagtail documentation with a lot of help from another fellow here.
2:02
Speaker 1: We have more work to do, and it's been great.
Questions this talk answers
How long have the interviewees been using Wagtail?
The interviewees report varying experience: some have used Wagtail for under a year, while others have used it for about two and a half or three years. One attendee began learning it after a DjangoCon tutorial in 2017.
Discussed at 0:37What are people working on at Wagtail Space?
Attendees are improving the Wagtail admin’s accessibility, importing content from WordPress, developing editor autocomplete and a new start page, working on logging and site integration, sprinting, and upgrading the documentation.
Discussed at 1:14Presenters
Event
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