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.

2016-02-12
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Developer Relations focus

 * 2017 Wikimedia Hackathon: Looking for Proposals.
 * Review Wikimedia Hackathon 2016 travel sponsorship requests.
 * Wikimedia applications for Google Summer of Code 2016 and Outreachy Round 12.
 * Now Developer Relations is a subteam of Technical Collaboration, see our quarterly goals, annual plan (WIP), strategy (WIP), and planning process.

More details at #devrel-february-2016

Software

 * Wikidata Toolkit 0.6.0 (announcement)

Past
FOSDEM presentations:
 * Converting LiquidThreads to Flow: Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the batch
 * Free Knowledge Game Jam
 * Increasing access to free and open knowledge for speakers of undeserved languages on Wikipedia

Upcoming

 * 2016-02-16: Lightning Talks.
 * 2016-03-24/26 Amman (Jordan): WikiArabia - technical sessions
 * 2016-03-30 Ramallah (Palestine): Wikimedia Technical Workshop
 * 2016-03-31 / 2016-04-03 Jerusalem: Wikimedia Hackathon 2016
 * 2016-06-21/28 Esino Lario: Wikimania 2016
 * 2016-06-22/23 Wikimania Hackathon

Outreach

 * Google Code-in 2015 winners. Congratulations to Andrew Haberlandt (USA) and Ioannis Kydonis (Greece)!
 * Google Summer of Code 2016 and Outreachy Round_12 are warming up.
 * Outreach programs/Life of a successful project is ready for the next round.

Community health

 * MediaWiki +2 for Jan Zerebecki

Gerrit
Code repositories with slowest code review:
 * 1) Wikistats: 595 days, 4 changesets. (T113695)
 * 2) WikiTwidget: 410 days, 1 changeset.
 * 3) mwdumper: 368 days, 1 changeset.
 * 4) openzim: 364 days, 1 changeset.
 * 5) limn-edit-data: 354 days, 1 changeset.