Technical Community Newsletter/2022/April

Notes on this issue
The Wikimedia Technical Community Newsletter shares highlights and news from the past quarter and information about events coming up in the next quarter.

Features

 * The Wikimedia Hackathon will be happening May 20-22. The Hackathon will be held online, with virtual sessions and hacking rooms to participate in, so anyone can attend. If you'd like to host a session, please sign up! You can also add projects you plan to work on or are seeking help with. There will also be in-person meetups around the world.
 * The third workshop on the topic of "Writing Pywikibot scripts" as part of the "Small wiki toolkits" initiative will take place on Friday, April 29th at 16:00 UTC. You can find more details on the workshop and a link to join here.

What's new

 * PAWS has had an interface upgrade to JupyterLab. The Notebook interface that was previously used is being discontinued by the upstream project.
 * There is a new public status page at www.wikimediastatus.net. You can read more about this project.
 * Toolhub was updated on 2022-03-15 for the first time since 2022-01-05. The update adds a number of features including improved search functionality, many improvements for creating and editing lists, support for multiple authors in a toolinfo record, a recent changes feed, and backend support for "annotations".

Phabricator and Gerrit

 * Phabricator: Number of tasks created in Q1/2022: 6795
 * Phabricator: Number of tasks closed in Q1/2022: 6733
 * Phabricator: Number of different people who created tasks in Q1/2022: 953
 * Phabricator: Number of different people who closed tasks in Q1/2022: 451
 * Gerrit: 340 people wrote patches (134 of them being volunteers) in Q1/2022.

Recent blog posts on the Tech Blog

 * Toolforge and Grid Engine
 * Toolforge GridEngine Debian 10 Buster migration
 * Toolforge Jobs Framework
 * | What it takes to parse MediaWiki page titles… in Rust

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