New Developers/Quarterly/2018-07

This is the fourth edition of the New Developers Quarterly, a report covering activities, metrics, surveys and lessons learned in the Onboarding New Developers program. This report covers April to July 2018.

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Timeline
Newcomer-focused events, programs, and activities between April–June 2018:


 * April 12-13th The Africa Wikimedia Developers Project led a training in Lagos, Nigeria to orient new developers to Wikimedia's technical spaces
 * April 23rd Wikimedia accepted thirteen projects through Google Summer of Code 2018 and Outreachy Round 16
 * May 12-14th Wikimedia Netherlands organized Women Tech Storm hackathon in the Netherlands for women and non-binary folks
 * May 12-14th Wikimedia Hackathon mentoring program provided more inclusive and welcoming support to new developers attending the event
 * June Wikimedia's Google Code-in final winners Albert Wolszon and Nikita Volobuiev and mentor Florian Schmidt visited the Google's headquarters in California, United States

New developers metrics and trends
See also Technical Collaboration Metrics - Onboarding New Developers

Volunteers contributing patches for review
167 volunteers contributed between April–June 2018. (Source; number of entries in "Submitters" table due to T184741)

QoQ : +3.1%. YoY : +14.4%.

Data updated on 23 July 2018.

New volunteers attracted
49 new volunteers contributed between April–June 2018. (Source)

QoQ : -9.3%. YoY : -25.8%.

Data updated on 23 July 2018.

New volunteers retained
Percentage of volunteers active one year (±3months) after their first contribution, out of all new volunteers attracted one year ago. (Source: Calculation on data)

QoQ : -45.0%. YoY : 0.0%.

Data updated on 23 July 2018.

Review of changesets by new volunteers
236 changesets were contributed by new volunteers. (Source: Calculation on data . Changeset status data as of 23 July 2018.)

Projects with most new volunteers
49 new volunteers contributed to XXX repositories. (Source: "Repos by New Authors")

Outreach events

 * Wikimedia Hackathon 2017 (May 2017):
 * Attracted 37 new volunteers.
 * Retained 1 new developer who was active three quarters after the event (April–June 2018). (Source)
 * Wikimania Hackathon 2017 (August 2017):
 * Attracted 47 new volunteers.
 * Retained 2 new volunteers who were active two quarter after the event (April–June 2018). (Source)

Outreach programs

 * Google Summer of Code 2017 (May–August 2017):
 * Out of 4 new developers who used Gerrit and who completed the internship (7 new developers in total), we retained 0 developers (Source)
 * Outreachy Round 15 (December 2017–March 2018):
 * Out of 6 new developers who completed the internship, 3 used Gerrit. Out of those 3, we retained 1 developer (Source)
 * Google Code-in 2017 (November 2017–January 2018):
 * From Wikimedia's top 10 participants we retained 2 developers (Source). Note: Not all participants worked on code tasks or used Wikimedia Gerrit.