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2015-11-05
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Software

 * Wikimedia UI elements available in HTML + Bootstrap help you producing quick and visually accurate mockups. (demo, discussion)
 * OOjs UI 0.13.0 (breaking change, announcement)
 * Kiwix for iOS 1.2 (announcement, download)

Events

 * The Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 has 27 session proposals on track, 12 missing active discussion, 12 missing expected information.
 * By 2015-11-06 all Summit proposals must have active discussions and a Summit plan documented in the description.
 * Invitation to Wikimania 2016 Scholarship Committee (deadline: 2015-11-15)
 * Wikisource Conference 2015 (includes hackathon and technical workshops) on 20-22 Nov 2015 in Vienna.
 * Upcoming Lightning Talks on 2015-11-24. You can sign up or propose a talk.
 * Video recording of Tech Talk: Nothing Left but Always Right: The Twisted Road to RTL Support

Documentation

 * New: Presenting Wikidata knowledge. Display multilingual information from Wikidata in your application by associating items with 'Q' entities.

Outreach

 * After the deadline for submitting Outreachy round 11 proposals, Wikimedia mentors are evaluating 14 candidates. Community feedback is especially welcomed now. Selected participants will be announced on 2015-11-17. The proposals, sorted by order of submission:
 * Easier categorization of pictures in Upload to Commons Android app, by josephine_l
 * Improving static analysis tools for MediaWiki, by TasneemLo
 * Add ZIM format support for OCG, by Minervaxox
 * Wiki 3d warehouse, by Jeeltcraft
 * Making Education Dash Program usable for all languages and projects, by Haritha28
 * Implement HTML e-mail support in MediaWiki, by rosalieper
 * Extension to transclude Git content into Wiki Pages, by Galorefitz
 * Implement HTML e-mail support in MediaWiki, by Devirk
 * Add ZIM format support for OCG, by Adishaporwal
 * Improving MediaWikiAnalysis, by Anmolkalia
 * Technology to transclude git content into wiki pages, by Akangupt
 * Making Education Dash Program usable for all languages and projects, by Wdssilva
 * Making Education Dash Program usable for all languages and projects, by Kenua
 * Technology to transclude git content into wiki pages, by Shrutika719

Community health

 * The discussion about the Code of Conduct draft welcomes feedback on Finishing the "Report a problem" section. Open topics:
 * "All reports will be processed confidentially"
 * If you send a report to maintainers, include a reference to this document

Project management

 * No news?

Code review

 * Wikia has instituted a review process for sitewide JavaScript pages after experiencing two attacks that revoked certain permissions to admins. (source)

Metrics

 * m:Gadgets offers monthly reports about usage of Gadgets in Wikimedia wikis.
 * Related, the announcement of the new Special:GadgetUsage report available in all wikis.

Gerrit

 * Code repositories with slowest code review:
 * 1) Wikistats: 505 days, 5 changesets. (T113695)
 * 2) BookManagerv2: 473 days, 21 changesets. (T117105)
 * 3) BayesianFilter: 416 days, 1 changeset.
 * 4) UploadWizard: 383 days, 12 changesets.
 * 5) extdist: 342 days, 1 changeset.

Phabricator

 * 885 active users in Wikimedia Phabricator during October, our highest number so far.
 * 348 new accounts in Wikimedia Phabricator (was 363 in September).