Technical Community Newsletter/2020/October

A quarterly round-up of news from the Wikimedia Technical Community.

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 * You can now use and promote a Starter kit in your wiki community, and start translating the landing page and its subpages in a language you want. It lists resources, tools, and recommendations in technical areas relevant to smaller wikis that are just getting started. See the complete announcement.
 * Blog post and report on Indic technical workshops published! https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2020/08/07/designing-technical-workshops-for-the-indic-community/ & https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SWT_Indic_Workshop_Series_2020/Report
 * WikiContrib 2.0 developed as part of the Outreachy Round 20 released (see announcement). It is an easy-to-use developer metrics tool for visualizing the technical contributions to Wikimedia projects on Phabricator, Gerrit, and Github. Try it out and request any new features or report bugs.