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Technical Community Newsletter/2020/January

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The Technical Community Newsletter provides a snapshot of highlights and metrics from the quarter. If you are interested in contributing information or stories to the newsletter reach out to us on the main talk page.

Features edit

Wikimedia Technical Conference 2019 edit

Technical Conference 2019 took place November 12–15. The conference focused on developer productivity. Its goal was to help address all of the issues — large and small — that will make all parts of our engineers' lives happier, healthier, and more productive.

Read more about the sessions and outcomes on the event's Phabricator board.

What's new? edit

Conferences and events edit

Cool tools edit

Some cool tools from this past quarter.

  • Book reader based on Internet Archives Open-Source book reader provides a new level of functionality for scanned books in PDF or DjVu formats. Learn more.

Internships and outreach edit

  • Google Season of the Docs ended in early December 2019. Thank you and congratulations to Pavithra Eswaramoorthy for participating and successfully completing their Google Season of Docs project. The project greatly improved resources contributors to technical documentation on Wikimedia projects and made it easier for individuals to find the resources they need.
  • Google Code-In 2019 began in December 2019 and runs until the end of January 2020.
  • Call for projects and mentors for Google Summer of Code 2020 and Outreachy Round 20 is ongoing. If you would like to mentor a coding or non-coding (documentation, design, research, outreach, translation, etc.) project, share your ideas in a comment in Phab: T241019.

Technical Talks edit

Wikimedia Technical Talks provide Technical Community members and opportunity to share what they know. Talks take place monthly. You can view this past quarter's talks on Youtube:

Wikimedia Technical Talks will return in February 2020. You can find the schedule and learn how to participate on the Wikimedia Technical Talks page.

Community Metrics edit

Phabricator statistics by month edit

wikimedia.biterg.io edit

Have you ever wanted to know:

  • the number of Gerrit patches written by volunteer authors in a year?
  • who are the most active patch authors in a Gerrit repository?
  • who are the latest new patch contributors across Gerrit?
  • who are the most active reviewers per Gerrit repository?
  • how long it takes on average until Gerrit patches get their first review?

You can explore community metrics from the wikimedia.biterg.io dashboards.

Technical Improvements edit

Upcoming conferences and workshops edit

Wikimedia edit

  • EMWCon Spring 2020 (April 01–03, Sandusky, Ohio, USA): "Enterprise MediaWiki", i.e. the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies, non-profits, governments, and other organizations. The intended audience of EMWCon Spring 2020 is anyone who uses or would like to learn more about MediaWiki within organizations.
  • Wikimedia Hackathon 2020 (May 09–11, Tirana, Albania): Registration is now open.

Free and Open Source edit

  • FOSDEM (February 01–02, Brussels, Belgium): FOSDEM is a two-day event organized by volunteers to promote the widespread use of free and open source software.

Get involved! edit

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