Technical Community Newsletter/2020/October

A quarterly round-up of news from the Wikimedia Technical Community.

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Features

 * It's been a busy year for the Small Wiki Toolkits initiative! Learn more about the activities, lessons learned and next steps: One year of Small Wiki Toolkits initiative and more to come.
 * As part of the Small Wiki Toolkits initiative, several Indic technical workshops took place. Find out more: technical workshops for the Indic community and Small Wiki Toolkit Indic workshop series 2020 report.

What's new?

 * You can now use and promote a Starter kit in your wiki community, and start translating the landing page and its subpages in a language you want. It lists resources, tools, and recommendations in technical areas relevant to smaller wikis that are just getting started. See the complete announcement.
 * WikiContrib 2.0 developed as part of the Outreachy Round 20 released (see announcement). It is an easy-to-use developer metrics tool for visualizing the technical contributions to Wikimedia projects on Phabricator, Gerrit, and Github. Try it out and request any new features or report bugs.
 * The second edition of Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations! What is your favorite Wikimedia-related tool, and what makes it so awesome? Nominate the coolest tools until October 14. The top tools will be showcased in an online event.
 * Wikimedia is promoting eight projects via Outreachy Round 21, out of which 5 projects are focused on data science and engineering: https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/wikimedia/.
 * MediaWiki 1.35 was released last month.
 * A new stable release of Pywikibot will be available soon.

Phabricator and Gerrit

 * Phabricator: Number of tasks created in Q3/2020: 7430
 * Phabricator: Number of tasks closed in Q3/2020: 6602
 * Phabricator: Number of different people who created tasks in Q3/2020: 987
 * Phabricator: Number of different people who closed tasks in Q3/2020: 452
 * Gerrit: 332 people wrote patches (148 of them being volunteers) in Q3/2020.

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