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.

2016-02-04
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Developer Relations focus

 * Review Wikimedia Hackathon 2016 travel sponsorship requests and prepare the call for proposals for 2017.
 * Developer Relations strategy and annual plan.

More details at #devrel-february-2016

Software

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 * Wikiradio, a real-time audio service transmitted via the Internet]. (announcement)
 * Replicator: Wikidata import tool
 * MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2016.01
 * The new ApiSandbox has been merged into MediaWiki core. (T89386)
 * The  domain will be shut down. This is planned to happen in March. You should use   at each individual project domain instead.
 * Content Translation tool has now been used for 50,000 articles
 * Replay Edits received a popularity boost thanks to a mention in the New York Times.

Upcoming

 * 2016-02-16: Lightning Talks. You can sign up or propose a talk.
 * 2016-03-31 / 2016-04-03 Jerusalem: Wikimedia Hackathon 2016
 * 2016-06-21/28 Esino Lario: Wikimania 2016
 * 2016-06-22/23 Wikimania Hackathon

Documentation

 * New main page for https://wikitech.wikimedia.org

Outreach

 * A team of students at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden are working on PageView stats tool, a top 10 Community Wishlist project. (T120497)
 * Wikimedia participated in FOSDEM (Brussels, 30-31 Jan) with three sessions and one stand. (T88414)
 * Wrap-up post: Wikimedia Foundation takes part in Google Code-in 2015
 * Wikimedia interns can now participate in up to three Google Summer of Code editions. Until the last round, repeating was not allowed. We expect to increase developer retention and quantity of developer internships with this change. (T124392)
 * Technical topics score well in the Future IdeaLab Campaigns survey.

Metrics

 * Phabricator registered 892 active users in January, a new record.

Gerrit
Code repositories with slowest code review:
 * 1) Wikistats: 595 days, 4 changesets. (T113695)
 * 2) BookManagerv2: 564 days, 18 changesets. (T117105)
 * 3) WikiTwidget: 510 days, 1 changeset.
 * 4) mwdumper: 410 days, 1 changeset.
 * 5) openzim: 364 days, 1 changeset.