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.

2015-11-27
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Software

 * MediaWiki 1.26 now available (announcement)
 * Programmers Turn Wikipedia Into Music to Make a Point (KQED article)
 * Drawing Questions from Wikidata (ETH Zürich bachelor thesis)
 * OOjs UI 0.14.0 Release (breaking change, announcement)

Past

 * Video recording of WMF Discovery and Reading showcase on 2015-11-16.
 * Meeting notes of WMF Scrum of scrums on 2015-11-18.
 * Meeting logs of IRC office hour on 2015-11-19 19:00 UTC: Reconnecting with the shared hosting community (announcement)
 * Technical needs identified at Wikisource Conference 2015 (includes hackathon and technical workshops) on 20-22 Nov 2015 in Vienna.
 * Video stream and slides of Lightning Talks on 2015-11-24.
 * Meeting logs of IRC office hour on 2015-11-25: Language Engineering.
 * Meeting notes (in French) of Ateliers Wikidata on 2015-11-26 in Paris.

Upcoming

 * 2015-12-2/4 Bangalore: Grace Hopper Celebration India (call for Wikimedians)
 * 2015-12-10 IRC office hour: Discussion about product development
 * 2015-12-14: Wikimedia Product showcase.
 * Octicons-sync.svg 2015-12-22: Upcoming Lightning Talks. You can sign up or propose a talk.
 * Octicons-sync.svg 2016-01-04/06 San Francisco: Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016
 * Skeleton schedule for Tuesday 4 and Wednesday 5 combine slots for pre-scheduled sessions and unconference rooms. (T116024)
 * "Must have" sessions are being selected. (T119593)
 * 2016-03-30 / 2016-04-03 Jerusalem: Wikimedia Hackathon 2016 (new wiki page, work in progress)
 * Idea: Engaging developer communities. (T119694)
 * Idea: Connect the priorities of the Community Wishlist and other tech priorities. (T119703)

Documentation

 * Commons media of the month example web app written in ClojureScript. (announcement, source, ClojureScript online workshop)

Community health

 * Proposal: MediaWiki Group WikiWerkers (announcement)
 * Octicons-sync.svg Code of Conduct draft
 * The section Report a problem has been frozen after a round of feedback.
 * The page about handling cases, responses and resolutions, and appeals welcomes edits and feedback.

Project management

 * Phlogiston is a reporting tool for Phabricator. (live instance, Community Tech example report)
 * Wikimedia Engineering 2015-16 Q3 Goals are being drafted.
 * New page: Wikimedia Product.

Metrics
Code repositories with slowest code review:
 * 1) UploadWizard: 512 days, 9 changesets. (T119764)
 * 2) Wikistats: 505 days, 5 changesets. (T113695)
 * 3) BookManagerv2: 473 days, 19 changesets. (T117105)
 * 4) BayesianFilter: 416 days, 1 changeset. (T118460)
 * 5) TitleBlacklist: 336 days, 1 changeset.