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2015-12-10
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DevRel focus
What keeps Developer Relations especially busy these days:


 * Google Code-in: program start
 * WikiDev16
 * finalizing logistics (contracts, video, transport, social events, and more)
 * "must have" sessions and keynotes
 * cordinate Collaboration area
 * Planning our quarterly goals for January - March 2016
 * Code of Conduct: implications and legal requirements of reports affecting Wikimedia Foundation employees

Check more details in #devrel-december-2015

Software

 * Wikimedia IEG program will fund fourteen community-led projects (7 of them software based) (Wikimedia blog)
 * Batch Uploader for small GLAM projects
 * Pan Scandinavian Machine Assisted Content Translation
 * Wiki Needs Pictures
 * Wikimaps Warper 2.0
 * StrepHit: Wikidata Statements Validation via Reference
 * Semi-automatically generate Categories for Vietnamese Wikipedia
 * Proofreading semi-automatically the Catalan Wikipedia with LanguageTool
 * Selection of media coverage of the release of the Objective Revision Evaluation Service (ORES)
 * Artificial Intelligence and the Wisdom of the Crowd (HowStuffWorks, video)
 * Artificial Intelligence Aims to Make Wikipedia Friendlier and Better (MIT Technology Review)
 * Wikipedia launches edit-checking artificial intelligence (BBC News)
 * The Wikipedia app for Android, selected among Best Apps of 2015 in Google Play.

Past

 * 2015-12-09: RfC meeting minutes

Upcoming

 * 2015-12-10: IRC office hour: Discussion about product development
 * 2015-12-14: Wikimedia Product showcase.
 * 2015-12-15: Tech Talk: How to integrate user behavior to get better designs
 * 2015-12-16: RfC meeting
 * 2015-12-22: Upcoming Lightning Talks. You can sign up or propose a talk
 * 2016-01-04/06 San Francisco: Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016
 * Feedback on "must have" sessions is welcomed by Monday, December 7
 * 2016-03-30 / 2016-04-03 Jerusalem: Wikimedia Hackathon 2016
 * Discuss: Connect the priorities of the Community Wishlist and other tech priorities with the Wikimedia Hackathon 2016

Documentation

 * New draft: Gadgets 2.0.

Community health

 * Working together on the problem of online harassment in Wikimedia communities (Wikimedia blog)

Project management

 * Of Great Pyramids and agile software development: how and why we developed Phragile (Wikimedia blog)
 * Ideas for tech-related IdeaLab Campaigns?

Code review

 * Request for comment: Migrate code review and management to Phabricator from Gerrit.

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