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.

2015-11-19
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Software

 * Pageview API (demo, documentation, announcement)
 * R client for Pageview API (announcement)
 * Callisto - a tool that shows places depicted in artworks.
 * Blog post: Check out these new features and extensions kicked off at Google Summer of Code 2015

Events

 * IRC office hour on 2015-11-19 19:00 UTC: Reconnecting with the shared hosting community (announcement)
 * Octicons-sync.svg Wikisource Conference 2015 (includes hackathon and technical workshops) on 20-22 Nov 2015 in Vienna.
 * Octicons-sync.svg Upcoming Lightning Talks on 2015-11-24. You can sign up or propose a talk.
 * Ateliers Wikidata on 2015-11-26 in Paris.
 * Octicons-sync.svg Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 on January 4-6 in San Francisco.
 * Four main areas are being defined: Content format, Content access and APIs, Collaboration, and Software engineering. (T119018)

Outreach

 * Outreachy round 11 results. (announcement)
 * Selected: Josephine Lim aka Misaochaaan on Easier categorization of pictures in Upload to Commons Android app.
 * Several strong candidates could not be accepted due to incompatibility with their university commitments.
 * Wikimedia is among the 14 organizations accepted in Google Code-in 2015 - Bring your tasks! (announcement)
 * Survey: Please help us understand third-party use of Wikipedia's content (announcement)

Community health

 * The discussion about the Code of Conduct draft welcomes feedback on handling cases, responses and resolutions, and appeals.

Project management

 * 2015 Community Wishlist Survey's phase 1: Submit proposals is open until 2015-11-22.
 * The German Wikipedia community has completed the vote for their Technische Wünsche 2015.
 * Better resolution of edit conflicts tops the list.
 * There is an initial version of Design and development principles/Draft. (announcement)
 * Octicons-sync.svg WMF product development process draft welcomes feedback. Open topics include
 * Between "Concept" and "Plan" - Prioritize?
 * Community input prior to build phase
 * Scope of "release" stage
 * A path for experiments, with/without eventual productization

Code review

 * Gerrit +1 now executes the code you reviewed (announcement)

Metrics
Code repositories with slowest code review:
 * 1) Wikistats: 505 days, 5 changesets. (T113695)
 * 2) BookManagerv2: 473 days, 19 changesets. (T117105)
 * 3) BayesianFilter: 416 days, 1 changeset. (T118460)
 * 4) TitleBlacklist: 336 days, 1 changeset.
 * 5) WikimediaMaintenance: 326 days, 2 changesets.