Technical Community Newsletter/2021/July

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Notes on this issue

The Wikimedia Technical Community Newsletter shares highlights and news from the past quarter and information about events coming up in the next quarter.

Features

• The Wikimedia Hackathon 2021 took place from 21 May - 23 May. This year's hackathon was fully remote. You can learn more about how the hackathon was structured and its outcomes in the Wikimedia Tech Blog.

What's new

• Outreachy's current round runs from May-August 2021.

Community metrics

Phabricator and Gerrit

• Phabricator: Number of tasks created in Q2/2021: 6889
• Phabricator: Number of tasks closed in Q2/2021: 6768
• Phabricator: Number of different people who created tasks in Q2/2021: 1014
• Phabricator: Number of different people who closed tasks in Q2/2021: 474
• Gerrit: 353 people wrote patches (162 of them being volunteers) in Q2/2021.

Upcoming conferences and workshops

Wikimedia

• Wikimania Hackathon 2021 (Online) - Open to all members of the Wikimedia community, the hackathon is a part of this year's Wikimania.

Get involved!

Are you interested in learning more or volunteering to improve Wikimedia Technology? Get involved!