Technical Community Newsletter/2023/January

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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.

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Highlights

• A newcomer-friendly introduction to the Wikimedia technical ecosystem has been published.
• A sweep of tools hosted on Toolforge is ongoing: All tools will get checked for license compatibility, published source code, privacy compliance, etc.
• Call for projects and mentors for Google Summer of Code 2023 and Outreachy Round 26 announced. Interested in mentoring a coding or non-coding project (around design, documentation, translation, outreach, research)? Express your interest on the Phabricator task until February 7th.
• Pywikibot version 8.0 has been released.
• Toolhub was updated in December to add support for a collection of attributes and controlled vocabulary which are hoped to help in discovering new tools.
• The Technical Engagement team is proposing a redesign of Commons:Tools as part of a campaign to improve coverage of Commons tools in Toolhub.

Conferences and meetups

• The Wikimedia Hackathon will happen on 19–21 May 2023 in Athens, Greece. More information to come.
• FOSDEM took place in Brussels, Belgium on the weekend of 4–5 February with numerous Wikimedia attendees.

Community metrics in Phabricator and Gerrit

Phabricator

• Number of tasks created in Q4/2022: 6959
• Number of tasks closed in Q4/2022: 5236
• Number of different people who created tasks in Q4/2022: 918
• Number of different people who closed tasks in Q4/2022: 440

Gerrit

• 334 people wrote patches (112 of them being volunteers) in Q4/2022.

Recent blog posts on the Tech Blog

Read on https://techblog.wikimedia.org/ about:

• Introducing Terraform support on Wikimedia Cloud VPS
• HTTP/2 performance revisited
• Web Perf Hero: Valentín Gutierrez
• How we’re building our Kubernetes pipeline in GitLab
• Perf Matters at Wikipedia in 2016

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