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.

2016-01-26
The Winter break took longer than expected. Busy times!

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Developer Relations focus

 * Wrapping up Google Code-in 2015.
 * Wikimedia Hackathon 2016 travel sponsorship requests.
 * Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016/Lessons Learned.
 * Developer Relations strategy and annual plan.

Check more details in #devrel-january-2016

Software

 * Updating the MediaWiki Debian package
 * New beta of CompletionSuggester
 * Wikidata Graph Builder
 * Littar displays narrative locations from literary works on a map, presently only on Danish locations (source)
 * OOjs 0.15.0 (breaking change)
 * Video: Loading Barack Obama on 2G from Spain on a Nexus (discussion)
 * Brief demo of ConceptMap v1.1 - Creating dynamic concept maps from Wikidata
 * 15 years of Wikipedia in data visualization

Past

 * 2016-01-4/6: Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016
 * 2016-01-14: Tech Talk: Graphite and Graphana

Upcoming

 * 2016-03-30 / 2016-04-03 Jerusalem: Wikimedia Hackathon 2016
 * 2016-06-21/28 Esino Lario: Wikimania 2016
 * 2016-06-22/23 Wikimania Hackathon

Documentation

 * Extension:Graph/Interactive Graph Tutorial
 * Building applications around Wikidata (a beer example)
 * Wikimedia User Interface
 * Gadgets 2.0 has been updated (T118224)

Outreach

 * Google Code-in 2015 finished with a new record of 461 completed tasks.
 * Final winners to be announced on February 8.
 * Outreach: Easier categorization of pictures in the Commons Android app passed the mid-term review (blog, daily reports)
 * MediaWiki Market Share and Competitor Movement via T113210

Community health

 * Labs-l: Some suggestions if you have no resolutions for 2016 yet
 * WMF's engineering@lists.wikimedia.org is now a public list.
 * Code of Conduct: Wikimedia Developer Summit session notes and Developer Relations quarterly review summary

Project management

 * You can give input on WMF's strategy

Gerrit
Code repositories with slowest code review:
 * 1) Wikistats: 566 days, 4 changesets. (T113695)
 * 2) BookManagerv2: 535 days, 18 changesets. (T117105)
 * 3) BayesianFilter: 478 days, 1 changeset. (T118460)
 * 4) WikiTwidget: 381 days, 1 changeset.
 * 5) wmf-utils: 353 days, 1 changeset.