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.

2016-02-25
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Developer Relations focus

 * Wikimedia Hackathon 2016 accommodation, plus continuing with travel sponsorship requests.
 * Technical Collaboration's team strategic work narratives and budget for WMF Annual Plan (T124420)

More details at #devrel-february-2016

Software

 * Extension:ImageTweaks
 * Extension:ORES
 * Wikidata Propbrowse
 * Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets
 * Kiwix for Android 1.97 and for iOS 1.4
 * OOjs UI 0.16.0 release (breaking change)
 * MediaWiki-Codesniffer 0.6.0
 * Wikipediatrends.com update
 * From Freebase to Wikidata: The Great Migration

Upcoming

 * 2016-02-29 Tech Talk: Automated citations in Wikipedia: Citoid and the technology behind it
 * 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

 * Phabricator got updated and hence user-related Phabricator documentation got adjusted. (Project related documentation about subprojects and milestones still to be sorted out.)
 * New Tools namespace in wikitech.wikimedia.org to document each tool (example)

Outreach

 * Start of Outreachy round 12 (announcement)
 * Update on Upload to Commons Android App project
 * My walk with Wikimedia—Google Code-in participant speaks out

Community health

 * Suggested changes to the Code of Conduct draft
 * Clarification of legitimate reasons for publication of private communications and identity protection
 * Definitions - trolling, bad-faith reports
 * Marginalized and underrepresented groups
 * Enforcement issues

Metrics

 * Affiliations and country of residence are now visible in Korma's user profiles (T112528)

Gerrit
Code repositories with slowest code review:
 * 1) Wikistats: 595 days, 4 changesets. (T113695)
 * 2) WikiTwidget: 410 days, 1 changeset.
 * 3) mwdumper: 368 days, 1 changeset.
 * 4) openzim: 364 days, 1 changeset.
 * 5) TranslateSvg: 278 days, 6 changesets.