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.

2016-03-10
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Developer Relations focus

 * Goal: Define potential actions to reduce code review queues and waiting times
 * Travel sponsorship for WikiArabia Tech Meetup 2016 in Amman and Ramallah.
 * Provide a reply to Letter to Wikimedia Foundation: Superprotect and Media Viewer
 * Technical Collaboration's team strategy, annual plan FY2016-17, and quarterly goals April - June 2016.

More details at #devrel-march-2016.

Software

 * New Wikipedia app for iOS puts the joy of exploration in your hand
 * Kartographer: an extension to add maps to wikis.
 * wikiComment: Fast feedback system for Wikipedia.
 * paste2wiki: Clean up pasted HTML and convert it to wikitext.
 * Listeria bot now has experimental support for references (example)
 * You can apply for a grant as part of the Inspire Campaign around the topic of content review and curation.

Past
thumb|center|2016-03-01: Exciting New Improvements to Phabricator.

Upcoming

 * 2016-03-12 Rorkee: Wikimedia Hackathon IIT Roorkee
 * 2016-03-24/26 Amman: WikiArabia - technical sessions
 * 2016-03-30 Ramallah: Wikimedia Technical Workshop
 * 2016-03-31 / 2016-04-03 Jerusalem: Wikimedia Hackathon 2016
 * 2016-04-12 Montreal: Wiki Workshop @ WWW 2016
 * 2016-05-27 Cologne: Wiki Workshop @ ICWSM 2016
 * 2016-05-25/27 New York: Enterprise MediaWiki Conference Spring 2016
 * 2016-06-21/28 Esino Lario: Wikimania 2016
 * 2016-06-22/23 Wikimania Hackathon

Documentation

 * Help:Notifications/Cross-wiki

Outreach

 * Google Summer of Code 2016 and Outreachy/Round 12: mentors needed!
 * 14 March: Students can register and submit applications.

Community health

 * Looking for more additions to SWAT (deploy) team
 * Participate: Suggested changes to the Code of Conduct draft