Technical Community Newsletter/2020/July

A quarterly round-up of news from the Wikimedia Technical Community.

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Features

 * The Wikimedia Virtual Hackathon took place May 9-11. Explore the outcomes in the  hackathon showcase.
 * The Toolforge project is ready to start using toolforge.org as its DNS domain for naming both infrastructure and Toolforge hosted webservices. This change includes introducing "host-based" naming for webservices. See more about the migration to the the toolforge.org domain.

What's new?

 * The Google Code-in program is ending after 10 successful years. Thank you to all volunteers and mentees who have participated over the last decade.
 * Are you interested in technical writing for an Open Source project? Google Season of the Docs 2020 is now open for applications! Check out the GSOD Zulip stream for updates.
 * The virtual Small Wiki Toolkits - Indic workshop series took place in June 2020.
 * A proposal to change the MediaWiki logo is on taking place now.
 * Wikimedia will be moving to a self-hosted (in our datacenter(s)) GitLab Community Edition (CE) installation for both code review and continuous integration (CI). See this post on Wikitech-l for more information.
 * Our Gerrit code review instance was updated from version 2.15 to version 3.2.2.

Community metrics

 * Maintained and well-documented popular gadgets used across wikis
 * Phabricator statistics for April 2020, May 2020, and June 2020.

Wikimedia

 * July 9 - July 10, 2020 (Virtual): Celtic Knot - Wikimedia Language Conference. Submissions for satellite events are welcome.

Other

 * June 29 - July 2, 2020 (Virtual): Open Source Summit North America
 * May, June, July 2020 (Virtual): API the Docs. Conferences and talks.
 * August 9 - August 11 (Virtual): Write the Docs: Portland

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