Technical Community Newsletter/2021/October

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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 Wikimania Hackathon took place on August 13. The hackathon was attached to this year's fully online Wikimania conference. You can learn more about the outcomes in the hackathon showcase.
• Outreachy Round 22 is complete! Check out this round up of the projects to learn more about what participants accomplished.

What's new

• Outreachy Round 23 is accepting proposals for projects and mentors through 9 October 2021.
• Do you work on a smaller language wiki? Are you looking to build more technical capacity to make it easier to administrate and grow your wiki? Consider participating in the small wiki toolkits initiative.
• Improvements are coming to the Quarry public querying service!
• Make sure to nominate a tool for this year's Coolest Tool Award.
• Toolhub will be launching soon. Follow their weekly progress reports on Meta for details of the ongoing work.

Community metrics

Phabricator and Gerrit

• Phabricator: Number of tasks created in Q3/2021: 6362
• Phabricator: Number of tasks closed in Q3/2021: 5623
• Phabricator: Number of different people who created tasks in Q3/2021: 956
• Phabricator: Number of different people who closed tasks in Q3/2021: 442
• Gerrit: 333 people wrote patches (149 of them being volunteers) in Q3/2021.

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