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.

2015-12-03
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Developer Relation focus

 * Recruit Google Code-in mentors
 * WikiDev16 program: "must have" sessions and keynotes.
 * Agreement with Wikimedia Israel on the basics of the Wikimedia Hackathon budget, registration, and schedule
 * Check whether it is true that we have lost 40% of (Git) code contributors in the past 12 months
 * Prioritizing volunteer contributions in free software development
 * Planning our quarterly goals for January - March 2016
 * Planning our December sprint

Check more details in #devrel-december-2015

Software

 * Working with Wikipedia articles (Hypothes.is blog)
 * Artificial intelligence service gives Wikipedians ‘X-ray specs’ to see through bad edits
 * REST API for Wikidata
 * New Wikidata game: Author Language
 * The case for a MediaWiki LTS release

Past

 * 2015-12-02: Use for media, RfC meeting notes.
 * 2015-12-02: WMF Scrum of Scrums meeting notes.

Upcoming

 * 2015-12-09: RfC meeting:
 * Graph/Graphoid/Kartographer - data storage architecture
 * Parametric JSON builder
 * 2015-12-10: IRC office hour: Discussion about product development
 * 2015-12-14: Wikimedia Product showcase.
 * 2015-12-15: Tech Talk: How to integrate user behavior to get better designs
 * 2015-12-22: Upcoming_Lightning_Talks. You can sign up or propose a talk
 * 2016-01-04/06 San Francisco: Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016
 * Feedback on "must have" sessions is welcomed by Monday, December 7
 * 2016-03-30 / 2016-04-03 Jerusalem: Wikimedia Hackathon 2016
 * Discuss: Connect the priorities of the Community Wishlist and other tech priorities with the Wikimedia Hackathon 2016

Outreach

 * 2015-12-07: Beginning of Google Code-in 2015
 * Mentors and tasks are welcomed!

Community health

 * Expected behavior
 * Code of Conduct draft
 * The page about handling cases, responses and resolutions, and appeals welcomes edits and feedback

Project management

 * 2015 Community Wishlist Survey welcomes votes until Monday, December 14
 * The process to create projects in Phabricator has been simplified for #Project-Creators.

Code review

 * Process to request a new repository in Phabricator's Diffusion

Gerrit
Due to a data refresh problem, we have no new metrics this week. :(

Phabricator
A quieter month?


 * 818 active users in Wikimedia Phabricator during November (was 885 in October).
 * 255 new accounts in Wikimedia Phabricator (was 348 in October).