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.

2015-12-17
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Developer Relations focus

 * Google Code-in: 74 tasks completed by 44 students with the help of 30 mentors in its first week.
 * Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016:
 * Finalizing logistics (contracts, video, transport, social events, and more)
 * "Must have" sessions.
 * Initial details about unconference tracks, keynote, wrap-up session, and Meet & Code day.
 * Coordinate Collaboration area
 * Planning our quarterly goals for January - March 2016.
 * Code of Conduct: seeking expert advice on legal, HR, and community aspects.

Check more details in #devrel-december-2015.

Software

 * Community Wishlist Survey: top 10 wishes and full results (announcement)
 * Making our pageview data easily accessible (Wikimedia Blog)
 * MediaWiki 1.26 released (Wikimedia Blog)

Past

 * 2015-12-10: Log of IRC office hour: Discussion about product development
 * 2015-12-14: Video of WMF Monthly Product showcase
 * 2015-12-15: Video of Tech Talk: The creation of Histography, from concept to design
 * 2015-12-16: Meeting notes of RfC meeting: Agenda bashing of WikiDev '16.

Upcoming

 * 2015-12-17: IRC office hour: Discovery department
 * 2015-12-21: IRC office hour: Shared hosting technical alternatives & Shared hosting support definition
 * 2015-12-22: Lightning Talks. You can sign up or propose a talk.
 * 2015-12-23: Architecture RfC meeting
 * 2016-01-04/06 San Francisco: Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016
 * "Must have" sessions are being discussed and pre-scheduled (T119593)
 * Initial details about unconference tracks, keynote, wrap-up session, and Meet & Code day.
 * 2016-03-30 / 2016-04-03 Jerusalem: Wikimedia Hackathon 2016
 * 2016-06-21/28 Esino Lario: Wikimania 2016
 * 2016-06-22/23 Wikimania Hackathon
 * Scholarship application open until 2016-01-06.

Outreach

 * whatcanidoforwikimedia.org (T91633)
 * Google Code-in 2015 continues until 2016-01-27
 * 74 tasks completed by 44 students with the help of 30 mentors in its first week.
 * Mentors and tasks are still welcomed!
 * Open tasks

Community health

 * Code of Conduct draft
 * The page about handling cases welcomes edits and feedback
 * Appeals
 * Removing detail in Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Responses_and_resolutions?

Metrics

 * The list of indexed mailing lists in korma was updated to make community activity data more reliable. (T116285)

Gerrit
Code repositories with slowest code review:
 * 1) Wikistats: 535 days, 5 changesets. (T113695)
 * 2) BookManagerv2: 504 days, 18 changesets. (T117105)
 * 3) BayesianFilter: 447 days, 1 changeset. (T118460)
 * 4) WikiTwidget: 350 days, 1 changeset.
 * 5) Data-Warehouse: 324 days, 1 changeset.