Developer Relations/Weekly summary

A weekly summary of news related to the areas covered by the Developer Relations team. Currently it is distributed to wikitech-l only.

The previous summaries can be found in the archive.

2016-03-03
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Developer Relations focus

 * Wikimedia Hackathon 2016 travel and accommodation.
 * WikiArabia - technical sessions and Wikimedia Technical Workshop in Ramallah
 * Improvements in tech community metrics
 * Technical Collaboration's team strategy and Annual Plan

More details at #devrel-february-2016 and #devrel-march-2016

Software

 * COOL-WD: A Completeness Tool for Wikidata (announcement, video demo)
 * Help us make wiki search auto completion better!
 * The planet’s history of violence over 4,000 years in one simple map (discussion)

Related:
 * Report on the results of the community consultation process of the 2016 Wikimedia Foundation Strategy (PDF)
 * Inspire Campaign on content curation & review

Past

 * November 2015: Educational hackathon about digital sources, big data, and Wikipedia
 * 2016-02-29 Tech Talk: Automated citations in Wikipedia: Citoid and the technology behind it (video, slides, IRC log)
 * 2016-03-02 CREDIT showcase (video) (Lightning Talks and Product Showcase merged)

Upcoming

 * 2016-03-24/26 Amman: WikiArabia - technical sessions
 * 2016-03-30 Ramallah: Wikimedia Technical Workshop
 * 2016-03-31 / 2016-04-03 Jerusalem: Wikimedia Hackathon 2016
 * 2016-04-12 Montreal: Wiki Workshop @ WWW 2016
 * 2016-05-27 Cologne: Wiki Workshop @ ICWSM 2016
 * 2016-05-25/27 New York: Enterprise MediaWiki Conference Spring 2016
 * 2016-06-21/28 Esino Lario: Wikimania 2016
 * 2016-06-22/23 Wikimania Hackathon

Documentation

 * Basic damage detection in Wikipedia

Outreach

 * Outreachy round 11 project completed by Misaochaaan: Easier categorization of pictures in Upload to Commons Android app (final report)
 * Wikimedia has been accepted in Google Summer of Code 2016. (announcement)
 * Wikimedia tech volunteer Ankita Shukla (Phabricator profile) is a finalist for RedHat's Women in Open Source Award. This award welcomes your votes by March 6th.
 * Google Summer of Code/Admins
 * Tech/News/For contributors

Community health

 * Suggested changes to the Code of Conduct draft
 * Proposal: Credit security researchers that identify and disclose vulnerabilities

Project management

 * WMF product development process/Communities
 * Sticky filters on workboards (T76913)

Code review

 * Resolved: Prototype CI integration with Differential
 * Proposal: Set up Code Review office hours

Metrics

 * New: Oldest open Gerrit changesets without code review, by affiliation (T113719)
 * Active users in Phabricator during February: 946 (an all-time highest, was 892 in January)