New Developers/Quarterly/2017-10

Overview
Goal, possible candidates, scope, etc.

Key findings

 * Finding 1
 * Finding 2
 * Finding 3

New developers metrics and trends
Big picture:

Specific metrics: {| class="wikitable" style="background-color: white;" ! style="background-color:#A9F5A9;" | Metric ! style="background-color:#A9F5A9;" | Statistics ! style="background-color:#A9F5A9;" | Source ! style="background-color:#A9F5A9;" | Additional Comments (to be removed later)
 * colspan="3" |YEARLY (June 2016 - July 2017)
 * colspan="3" |YEARLY (June 2016 - July 2017)

New developers attracted

 * 216 volunteers

contributed to

83 repositories
 * Wikimedia Biterg (see `Summary` section)

New developers retained
Active one year after their first contribution
 * 0.0% ~ 0 out of 41 developers
 * Operations on Biterg data using the approach in T160430#3383647
 * Activity considered between April-June 2016 & July-September 2017 timeframe
 * colspan="3" |QUARTERLY (July 2017 - September 2017)
 * colspan="3" |QUARTERLY (July 2017 - September 2017)

New developers attracted

 * 45 volunteers

contributed to

26 repositories
 * Wikimedia Biterg (see `Summary` section)

Changesets received, merged and abandoned
Received 148

Merged 85 (57.43%)

Abandoned 36 (24.32%)


 * Operation on Wikimedia Biterg data

Extract the new developer's list using the instructions explained in the cell above. First, construct a search query in Wikimedia Gerrit by entering author_name: "foo" OR author_name:"bar". Then, collect data from the `Status` section.
 * There were initially 637 changesets shown on Biterg which seemed unrealistic. Looks like author_name `LibraryUpgrader` itself which seems to be a semi-automated tool submitted a total of 489 changesets. This author has been excluded from the calculation of this metrics.

Active contributors
More than one changeset in Gerrit
 * 17/45 (31.4%)
 * Wikimedia Biterg (see `Contribs` column) under New Authors

Three projects with most received contributions
mediawiki/core 6
 * mediawiki/extensions/examples 12

apps/android/wikipedia 4
 * Wikimedia Biterg (see `Repos by New Authors` section)

Outreach programs & events
Developers attracted and retained Attracted (number ~ %)
 * Wikimania Hackathon 2017

Wikimedia Hackathon 2017

Attracted (number ~ %)

Retained (number ~ %)

Google Summer of Code 2016 / Outreachy Round 13

Attracted (number)

Retained

Most viewed newcomer documentation
On a daily average
 * Pageview_analysis_of_five_new_developers_focused_documentation_on_MediaWiki.png to contribute 494

Developer hub 245

How to become a MediaWiki hacker 69

New Developers 16

Outreach programs 4
 * |[https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=mediawiki.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&start=2017-07-01&end=2017-09-27&pages=How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker|Developer_hub|How_to_contribute|New_Developers|Outreach_programs Pageviews tool
 * colspan="3" |Data last updated on September 28th 2017
 * }
 * colspan="3" |Data last updated on September 28th 2017
 * }
 * }

Survey analysis
Brief..