Technical Community Newsletter/2020/July

A quarterly round-up of news from the Wikimedia Technical Community.

Notes on this issue

The Wikimedia Virtual Hackathon took place May 9-11. Explore the outcomes in the hackathon showcase.
The Toolforge project is now using toolforge.org as its DNS domain for naming both infrastructure and Toolforge hosted webservices. This change includes introducing "host-based" naming for webservices. Learn more about the migration to the the toolforge.org domain.

The Google Code-in program is ending after 10 successful years. Thank you to all volunteers and mentees who have participated over the last decade.
Are you interested in technical writing for an Open Source project? Google Season of the Docs 2020 is open for applications through July 9!
The virtual Small Wiki Toolkits - Indic workshop series took place in June 2020.
A proposal to change the MediaWiki logo is taking place now.
Our Gerrit code review instance was updated from version 2.15 to version 3.2.2.

Phabricator: Number of tasks created in Q2/2020: 7755
Phabricator: Number of tasks closed in Q2/2020: 7114
Phabricator: Number of different people who created tasks in Q2/2020: 1070
Phabricator: Number of different people who closed tasks in Q2/2020: 488
Monthly breakdown of Phabricator statistics for April 2020, May 2020, and June 2020.

July 9 - July 10, 2020 (Virtual): Celtic Knot - Wikimedia Language Conference. Submissions for satellite events are welcome.