New Developers/Quarterly/2017-10

Overview
Goal, possible candidates, scope, etc.

Key findings

 * Finding 1
 * Finding 2
 * Finding 3

New developers metrics and trends
Big picture:

Specific metrics: {| class="wikitable" style="background-color: white;" ! style="background-color:#A9F5A9;" | Metric ! style="background-color:#A9F5A9;" | Statistics ! style="background-color:#A9F5A9;" | Source ! style="background-color:#A9F5A9;" | Additional Comments (to be removed later)
 * colspan="3" |YEARLY (October 2016–September 2017)
 * colspan="3" |YEARLY (October 2016–September 2017)

New developers attracted

 * 216 volunteers

contributed to

83 repositories
 * "Summary" section of Community Metrics

New developers retained
Active one year after their first contribution
 * 0 out of 41 developers (0.0%)
 * Calculation on Community Metrics data
 * Comparison between April–June 2016 and July–September 2017 timeframe
 * colspan="3" |QUARTERLY (July 2017–September 2017)
 * colspan="3" |QUARTERLY (July 2017–September 2017)

New developers attracted

 * 45 volunteers

contributed to

26 repositories
 * "Summary" section of Community Metrics

Changesets received, merged and abandoned
Received: 148

Merged: 85 (57.43%)

Abandoned: 36 (24.32%)


 * Calculation on Community Metrics data
 * The initial 637 changesets shown were incorrect - The author_name "LibraryUpgrader" (a semi-automated tool) has been manually excluded from the calculation.

Active contributors
More than one changeset in Gerrit
 * 17 out of 45 (31.4%)
 * "Contribs" column of "New Authors" of Community Metrics

Three projects with most received contributions
mediawiki/core: 6
 * mediawiki/extensions/examples: 12

apps/android/wikipedia: 4
 * "Repos by New Authors" section of Community Metrics

Outreach events
Developers attracted and retained Attracted (number ~ %)
 * Wikimania Hackathon 2017

Wikimedia Hackathon 2017

Attracted (number ~ %)

Retained (number ~ %)



Outreach programs
Developers attracted and retained Attracted (number)
 * Google Summer of Code 2016 / Outreachy Round 13

Retained

Newcomer documentation page views
On a daily average
 * Pageview_analysis_of_five_new_developers_focused_documentation_on_MediaWiki.png to contribute: 494

Developer hub: 245

How to become a MediaWiki hacker: 69

New Developers: 16

Outreach programs: 4
 * Pageviews
 * colspan="3" |Data last updated on September 28th 2017
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 * colspan="3" |Data last updated on September 28th 2017
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Survey analysis
Brief..