New Developers/Quarterly/2018-01

This is the second edition of the New Developers Quarterly, a report covering activities, metrics, surveys and lessons learned in the Onboarding New Developers program. This report covers October to December 2017.

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Timeline
Newcomer-focused events, programs, and activities between October–December 2017:


 * October 5th How Technical Collaboration is bringing new developers into the Wikimedia movement, blogpost by Quim Gil
 * October 7th WikiFemHack, a Gender Gap edit-a-thon, and hackathon organized by the Wikimedia Community User Group with the help of Open Knowledge Foundation and SheSharp in Thessaloniki, Greece (more details)
 * October 19th Towards building an African Wikimedia Developer Community, blogpost by Felix Nartey and Derick Alangi
 * October 26th Wikimedia is taking part in Google Code-in 2017. 43 mentors will be mentoring students from November 28, 2017 to January 17, 2018 on both coding and non-coding related tasks
 * November 25th How two new Wikimedians spent their time at the Montreal Hackathon, blogpost by Melody Kramer
 * December 1st Wikimedia Foundation funds six Outreachy interns for round 15, blogpost by Srishti Sethi

Key findings

 * What did we learn from sending follow-up emails to new developers who attended the Wikimedia Hackathon in Vienna and Montreal? What did we learn from conducting interviews with new developers for the post-event audience engagement study? Related task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163440

New developers metrics and trends
See also Technical Collaboration Metrics - Onboarding New Developers.

Volunteers contributing patches for review
XX volunteers contributed between October–December 2017. (Source)

New volunteers attracted
XX new volunteers contributed between October–December 2017. (Source)

QoQ : xx%. YoY : xx%.

New volunteers retained
Percentage of volunteers active one year (± 3 months) after their first contribution, out of all new volunteers attracted one year ago (between July–September 2016). (Source: Calculation on data)

QoQ : xx%. YoY : xx%.

Review of changesets by new volunteers
xxx changesets were contributed by new volunteers. (Source: Calculation on data . Data as of MM dd, 2017.)

Projects with most new volunteers
xx new volunteers contributed to xx repositories. (Source: "Repos by New Authors")

Outreach programs

 * Google Summer of Code 2017 (May–August 2017):
 * Out of 7 new developers who completed the internship, we retained XX developers
 * Outreachy Round 15 (December 2017–March 2018):
 * Attracted 6 new developers