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.

2015-11-12
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Software

 * Article suggestions—a new feature for Content Translation
 * Semantic MediaWiki 2.3.0 released (announcement)

Events

 * Wikisource Conference 2015 (includes hackathon and technical workshops) on 20-22 Nov 2015 in Vienna.
 * Upcoming Lightning Talks on 2015-11-24. You can sign up or propose a talk.
 * The Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 has 45 session proposals on track, 10 missing active discussion, 6 missing expected information.
 * The evaluation of proposals has started. (T116024)

Documentation

 * New: Git for dummies, as a merge of several personal cookbooks (discussion)

Outreach

 * Wikimedia has applied to Google Code-in 2015. Accepted organizations will be announced by 2015-11-13.
 * Wikimedia mentors have finished evaluating their Outreachy round 11 candidates. Selected participants will be announced on 2015-11-17.

Community health

 * The discussion about the Code of Conduct draft welcomes feedback on Finishing the "Report a problem" section. Open topics:
 * "All reports will be processed confidentially"
 * If you send a report to maintainers, include a reference to this document

Project management

 * WMF product development process draft welcomes feedback. (discussion)

Metrics

 * Affiliation data of top tech contributors has been completed. (T112527, [example)

Code repositories with slowest code review:
 * 1) Wikistats: 505 days, 5 changesets. (T113695)
 * 2) BookManagerv2: 473 days, 21 changesets. (T117105)
 * 3) BayesianFilter: 416 days, 1 changeset. (T118460)
 * 4) TitleBlacklist: 383 days, 1 changeset.
 * 5) WikimediaMaintenance: 296 days, 2 changesets.