Technical Community Newsletter/2019/October



Feature
Coolest Tool!

What's new?

 * Small Wiki Toolkits (Link to Blog Post) - (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Building_Technical_Capacity_in_Smaller_Wikis.pdf)
 * Google Summer of Code 2019 (finished)
 * Outreach Round 18 (finished) and upcoming
 * Google Season of the Docs is ongoing.
 * In Q1 we hosted three hour long technical talks that covered a wide range of topics:
 * July: Documenting Wikimedia Projects
 * August: A Deployment Pipeline Overview
 * September: How to compare text across multiple languages
 * Note about Stockholm?

By the numbers

 * Independent commits in Gerrit for quarter: 1,587 (# is July 1 through Mid Sept) -- Rerun closer to newsletter launch
 * New tools:???
 * New Phabricator signups
 * Updates on Technical Documentation
 * Technical Document (Re)Working Group SIG
 * (Tech docs IRC)

Upcoming conferences and workshops
Where in the world is Technical Engagement?


 * WikiConf NA (maybe) - Dev Advocacy
 * WikiCon DE - Dev Advocacy
 * WikiArabia - Dev Advocacy
 * TechConf 2019 - Dev Advocacy & WMCS
 * WikiKonference CZ - Dev Advocacy

Join us!

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_Developers
 * Technical Talks