Developer Relations focus

• Wikimedia Hackathon 2016 travel and accommodation.
• WikiArabia - technical sessions and Wikimedia Technical Workshop in Ramallah
• Improvements in tech community metrics
• Technical Collaboration's team strategy and Annual Plan

More details at #devrel-february-2016 and #devrel-march-2016

Software

• COOL-WD: A Completeness Tool for Wikidata (announcement, video demo)
• Help us make wiki search auto completion better!
• The planet’s history of violence over 4,000 years in one simple map (discussion)

Related:

• Report on the results of the community consultation process of the 2016 Wikimedia Foundation Strategy (PDF)
• Inspire Campaign on content curation & review

Events

Documentation

• Basic damage detection in Wikipedia

Outreach

• Outreachy round 11 project completed by Misaochaaan: Easier categorization of pictures in Upload to Commons Android app (final report)
• Wikimedia has been accepted in Google Summer of Code 2016. (announcement)
• Wikimedia tech volunteer Ankita Shukla (Phabricator profile) is a finalist for RedHat's Women in Open Source Award. This award welcomes your votes by March 6th.
• Google Summer of Code/Admins
• m:Tech/News/For contributors

Community health

• Suggested changes to the Code of Conduct draft
• Proposal: Credit security researchers that identify and disclose vulnerabilities

Project management

• WMF product development process/Communities
• Sticky filters on workboards (phab:T76913)

Code review

• Resolved: Prototype CI integration with Differential
• Proposal: Set up Code Review office hours

Metrics

• New: Oldest open Gerrit changesets without code review, by affiliation (phab:T113719)
• Active users in Phabricator during February: 946 (an all-time highest, was 892 in January)

Developer Relations focus

• Wikimedia Hackathon 2016 accommodation, plus continuing with travel sponsorship requests.
• Technical Collaboration's team strategic work narratives and budget for WMF Annual Plan (T124420)

More details at #devrel-february-2016

Software

• Extension:ImageTweaks
• Extension:ORES
• Wikidata Propbrowse
• Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets
• Kiwix for Android 1.97 and for iOS 1.4
• OOjs UI 0.16.0 release (breaking change)
• MediaWiki-Codesniffer 0.6.0
• Wikipediatrends.com update
• From Freebase to Wikidata: The Great Migration

Events

Documentation

• Phabricator got updated and hence user-related Phabricator documentation got adjusted. (Project related documentation about subprojects and milestones still to be sorted out.)
• New Tools namespace in wikitech.wikimedia.org to document each tool (example)

Outreach

• Start of Outreachy round 12 (announcement)
• Update on Upload to Commons Android App project
• My walk with Wikimedia—Google Code-in participant speaks out

Community health

• Suggested changes to the Code of Conduct draft
  • Clarification of legitimate reasons for publication of private communications and identity protection
  • Definitions - trolling, bad-faith reports
  • Marginalized and underrepresented groups
  • Enforcement issues

Metrics

• Affiliations and country of residence are now visible in Korma's user profiles (T112528)

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)

Events

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

Metrics

Developer Relations focus

• Review Wikimedia Hackathon 2016 travel sponsorship requests and prepare the call for proposals for 2017.
• Developer Relations strategy and annual plan.

More details at #devrel-february-2016

Software

• Bot operators: Please check your configuration
• Wikiradio, a real-time audio service transmitted via the Internet]. (announcement)
• Replicator: Wikidata import tool
• MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2016.01
• The new ApiSandbox has been merged into MediaWiki core. (T89386)
• The rest.wikimedia.org domain will be shut down. This is planned to happen in March. You should use /api/rest_v1/ at each individual project domain instead.
• Content Translation tool has now been used for 50,000 articles
• Replay Edits received a popularity boost thanks to a mention in the New York Times.

Events

Documentation

• New main page for https://wikitech.wikimedia.org

Outreach

• A team of students at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden are working on PageView stats tool, a top 10 Community Wishlist project. (T120497)
• Wikimedia participated in FOSDEM (Brussels, 30-31 Jan) with three sessions and one stand. (T88414)
• Wrap-up post: Wikimedia Foundation takes part in Google Code-in 2015
• Wikimedia interns can now participate in up to three Google Summer of Code editions. Until the last round, repeating was not allowed. We expect to increase developer retention and quantity of developer internships with this change. (T124392)
• Technical topics score well in the Future IdeaLab Campaigns survey.

Metrics

• Phabricator registered 892 active users in January, a new record.

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

Events

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 phab:T113210#1874282

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

Metrics

Developer Relations focus

• Google Code-in: 74 tasks completed by 44 students with the help of 30 mentors in its first week.
• Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016:
  • Finalizing logistics (contracts, video, transport, social events, and more)
  • "Must have" sessions.
  • Initial details about unconference tracks, keynote, wrap-up session, and Meet & Code day.
  • Coordinate Collaboration area
• Planning our quarterly goals for January - March 2016.
• Code of Conduct: seeking expert advice on legal, HR, and community aspects.

Check more details in #devrel-december-2015.

Software

• Community Wishlist Survey: top 10 wishes and full results (announcement)
• Making our pageview data easily accessible (Wikimedia Blog)
• MediaWiki 1.26 released (Wikimedia Blog)

Events

Outreach

• whatcanidoforwikimedia.org (T91633)
• Google Code-in 2015 continues until 2016-01-27
  • 74 tasks completed by 44 students with the help of 30 mentors in its first week.
  • Mentors and tasks are still welcomed!
  • Open tasks

Community health

• Code of Conduct draft
  • The page about handling cases welcomes edits and feedback
  • Appeals
  • Removing detail in Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Responses_and_resolutions?

Metrics

• The list of indexed mailing lists in korma was updated to make community activity data more reliable. (phab:T116285)

Developer Relations focus

• Google Code-in: program start
• WikiDev16
  • finalizing logistics (contracts, video, transport, social events, and more)
  • "must have" sessions and keynotes
  • cordinate Collaboration area
• Planning our quarterly goals for January - March 2016
• Code of Conduct: implications and legal requirements of reports affecting Wikimedia Foundation employees

Check more details in #devrel-december-2015

Software

• Survey: Understanding third-party use of Wikipedia content
• Wikimedia IEG program will fund fourteen community-led projects (7 of them software based) (Wikimedia blog)
  • Batch Uploader for small GLAM projects
  • Pan Scandinavian Machine Assisted Content Translation
  • Wiki Needs Pictures
  • Wikimaps Warper 2.0
  • StrepHit: Wikidata Statements Validation via Reference
  • Semi-automatically generate Categories for Vietnamese Wikipedia
  • Proofreading semi-automatically the Catalan Wikipedia with LanguageTool
• Selection of media coverage of the release of the Objective Revision Evaluation Service (ORES)
  • Artificial Intelligence and the Wisdom of the Crowd (HowStuffWorks, video)
  • Artificial Intelligence Aims to Make Wikipedia Friendlier and Better (MIT Technology Review)
  • Wikipedia launches edit-checking artificial intelligence (BBC News)
• The Wikipedia app for Android, selected among Best Apps of 2015 in Google Play.

Events

Documentation

• New draft: Gadgets 2.0.

Outreach

• Google Code-in 2015 started last Monday and will continue until 2016-01-27
  • Mentors and tasks are welcomed!
  • Open tasks
• Outreachy round 11: community bonding completed for Easier categorization of pictures in Upload to Commons Android app (report)

Community health

• Working together on the problem of online harassment in Wikimedia communities (Wikimedia blog)
• Code of Conduct draft
  • The page about handling cases welcomes edits and feedback
  • Appeals
  • Removing detail in Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Responses_and_resolutions?

Project management

• 2015 Community Wishlist Survey welcomes votes until Monday, December 14
• Of Great Pyramids and agile software development: how and why we developed Phragile (Wikimedia blog)
• Ideas for tech-related IdeaLab Campaigns?

Code review

• Request for comment: Migrate code review and management to Phabricator from Gerrit.

Metrics

• New metrics about downloads of extensions and skins via Extension Distributor

Developer Relation focus

• Recruit Google Code-in mentors
• WikiDev16 program: "must have" sessions and keynotes.
• Agreement with Wikimedia Israel on the basics of the Wikimedia Hackathon budget, registration, and schedule
• Check whether it is true that we have lost 40% of (Git) code contributors in the past 12 months
• Prioritizing volunteer contributions in free software development
• Planning our quarterly goals for January - March 2016
• Planning our December sprint

Check more details in #devrel-december-2015

Software

• Working with Wikipedia articles (Hypothes.is blog)
• Artificial intelligence service gives Wikipedians ‘X-ray specs’ to see through bad edits
• REST API for Wikidata
• New Wikidata game: Author Language
• The case for a MediaWiki LTS release

Events

Outreach

• 2015-12-07: Beginning of Google Code-in 2015
  • Mentors and tasks are welcomed!

Community health

• Expected behavior
• Code of Conduct draft
  • The page about handling cases, responses and resolutions, and appeals welcomes edits and feedback

Project management

• 2015 Community Wishlist Survey welcomes votes until Monday, December 14
• The process to create projects in Phabricator has been simplified for #Project-Creators.

Code review

• Process to request a new repository in Phabricator's Diffusion

Metrics

Software

• MediaWiki 1.26 now available (announcement)
• Programmers Turn Wikipedia Into Music to Make a Point (KQED article)
• Drawing Questions from Wikidata (ETH Zürich bachelor thesis)
• OOjs UI 0.14.0 Release (breaking change, announcement)

Events

Documentation

• Commons media of the month example web app written in ClojureScript. (announcement, source, ClojureScript online workshop)

Community health

• Proposal: MediaWiki Group WikiWerkers (announcement)
• Code of Conduct draft
  • The section Report a problem has been frozen after a round of feedback.
  • The page about handling cases, responses and resolutions, and appeals welcomes edits and feedback.

Project management

• Phlogiston is a reporting tool for Phabricator. (live instance, Community Tech example report)
• Wikimedia Engineering 2015-16 Q3 Goals are being drafted.
• New page: Wikimedia Product.

Metrics

Code repositories with slowest code review:

1. UploadWizard: 512 days, 9 changesets. (T119764)
2. Wikistats: 505 days, 5 changesets. (T113695)
3. BookManagerv2: 473 days, 19 changesets. (T117105)
4. BayesianFilter: 416 days, 1 changeset. (T118460)
5. TitleBlacklist: 336 days, 1 changeset.

Software

• Pageview API (demo, documentation, announcement)
  • R client for Pageview API (announcement)
• Callisto - a tool that shows places depicted in artworks.
• Blog post: Check out these new features and extensions kicked off at Google Summer of Code 2015

Events

• IRC office hour on 2015-11-19 19:00 UTC: Reconnecting with the shared hosting community (announcement)
• 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.
• Ateliers Wikidata on 2015-11-26 in Paris.
• Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 on January 4-6 in San Francisco.
  • Four main areas are being defined: Content format, Content access and APIs, Collaboration, and Software engineering. (phab:T119018)

Outreach

• Outreachy round 11 results. (announcement)
  • Selected: Josephine Lim aka Misaochaaan on Easier categorization of pictures in Upload to Commons Android app.
  • Several strong candidates could not be accepted due to incompatibility with their university commitments.
• Wikimedia is among the 14 organizations accepted in Google Code-in 2015 - Bring your tasks! (announcement)
• Survey: Please help us understand third-party use of Wikipedia's content (announcement)

Community health

• The discussion about the Code of Conduct draft welcomes feedback on handling cases, responses and resolutions, and appeals.

Project management

• 2015 Community Wishlist Survey's phase 1: Submit proposals is open until 2015-11-22.
• The German Wikipedia community has completed the vote for their Technische Wünsche 2015.
  • Better resolution of edit conflicts tops the list.
• There is an initial version of Design and development principles/Draft. (announcement)
• WMF product development process draft welcomes feedback. Open topics include
  • Between "Concept" and "Plan" - Prioritize?
  • Community input prior to build phase
  • Scope of "release" stage
  • A path for experiments, with/without eventual productization

Code review

• Gerrit +1 now executes the code you reviewed (announcement)

Metrics

Code repositories with slowest code review:

1. Wikistats: 505 days, 5 changesets. (T113695)
2. BookManagerv2: 473 days, 19 changesets. (T117105)
3. BayesianFilter: 416 days, 1 changeset. (T118460)
4. TitleBlacklist: 336 days, 1 changeset.
5. WikimediaMaintenance: 326 days, 2 changesets.

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. (phab: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.

Software

• Wikimedia UI elements available in HTML + Bootstrap help you producing quick and visually accurate mockups. (demo, discussion)
• OOjs UI 0.13.0 (breaking change, announcement)
• Kiwix for iOS 1.2 (announcement, download)

Events

• The Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 has 27 session proposals on track, 12 missing active discussion, 12 missing expected information.
  • By 2015-11-06 all Summit proposals must have active discussions and a Summit plan documented in the description.
• Invitation to Wikimania 2016 Scholarship Committee (deadline: 2015-11-15)
• 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.
• Video recording of Tech Talk: Nothing Left but Always Right: The Twisted Road to RTL Support

Documentation

• New: Presenting Wikidata knowledge. Display multilingual information from Wikidata in your application by associating items with 'Q' entities.

Outreach

• After the deadline for submitting Outreachy round 11 proposals, Wikimedia mentors are evaluating 13 candidates. Community feedback is especially welcomed now. Selected participants will be announced on 2015-11-17. The proposals, sorted by order of submission:
  • Easier categorization of pictures in Upload to Commons Android app, by josephine_l
  • Improving static analysis tools for MediaWiki, by TasneemLo
  • Wiki 3d warehouse, by Jeeltcraft
  • Making Education Dash Program usable for all languages and projects, by Haritha28
  • Implement HTML e-mail support in MediaWiki, by rosalieper
  • Extension to transclude Git content into Wiki Pages, by Galorefitz
  • Implement HTML e-mail support in MediaWiki, by Devirk
  • Add ZIM format support for OCG, by Adishaporwal
  • Improving MediaWikiAnalysis, by Anmolkalia
  • Technology to transclude git content into wiki pages, by Akangupt
  • Making Education Dash Program usable for all languages and projects, by Wdssilva
  • Making Education Dash Program usable for all languages and projects, by Kenua
  • Technology to transclude git content into wiki pages, by Shrutika719

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

• No news?

Code review

• Wikia has instituted a review process for sitewide JavaScript pages after experiencing two attacks that revoked certain permissions to admins. (source)

Metrics

• m:Gadgets offers monthly reports about usage of Gadgets in Wikimedia wikis.
  • Related, the announcement of the new Special:GadgetUsage report available in all wikis.

Software

• MediaWiki 1.26 release is approaching. You can help addressing blockers.
• Many software news around Wikidata's 3rd birthday on 2015-10-29 \o/
  • Poof it works - using wikidata to build Wikipedia articles about genes
  • Wikidata Taxonomy Browser (Announcement and discussion)
  • "Just about a week after its inception, the Distributed Game has passed 10K actions. Enough to see some interesting patterns in the stats." (source)
  • Harvest templates. New tool to copy data from templates to Wikidata.
  • ORES, a machine learning model for detecting vandalism in Wikidata.
• Pronuncify, a new tool to record batches of word pronunciations for Wikimedia Commons.
• MediaWiki-Codesniffer 0.5.0 released, is now voting on MediaWiki core patches.
• JetBrains IDE licenses for MW developers

Events

• Tech Talk: Nothing Left but Always Right: The Twisted Road to RTL Support on 2015-11-02 20:00 UTC, by MSchottlender (WMF) aka Mooeypoo.
• Wikisource Conference 2015 (includes hackathon and technical workshops) on 20-22 Nov 2015 in Vienna.
• The Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 has 24 session proposals on track, 10 missing active discussion, 19 missing expected information.
  • By 2015-11-06 all Summit proposals must have active discussions and a Summit plan documented in the description.
• Video recording of Tech Talk: Introduction to Free and Open Source Licensing at Wikimedia .
• Video recording of the last round of Lightning Talks.

Outreach

• Outreachy round 11 has 9 featured project ideas and 10 proposals submitted by candidates welcoming community feedback. The deadline for submissions is 2015-11-02.

Community health

• The discussion about the Code of Conduct draft welcomes feedback on Finishing the "Report a problem" section.

Project management

• MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group/Tasks/Feature wishlist (phab:T954)

Code review

• Opt-in Differential for projects needing code review but not Jenkins/Zuul for continuous integration (phab:T94167)

Metrics

Code repositories with slowest code review:

1. Wikistats: 475 days, 5 changesets. (T113695)
2. BookManagerv2: 443 days, 21 changesets.
3. BayesianFilter: 386 days, 1 changeset.
4. extdist: 312 days, 1 changeset.
5. WikimediaMaintenance: 296 days, 2 changesets.

Events

• Tech Talk: Introduction to Free and Open Source Licensing at Wikimedia on 2015-10-23 17:00 UTC, by Slaporte (WMF) aka Slaporte.
• The Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 has 10 session proposals on track, 7 missing active discussion, 36 missing expected information.
• Wikimania 2015 survey results: "The majority (53%) of Hackathon participants discussed future work, and the second-highest mentioned accomplishment was fixing bugs (34%)"

Outreach

• Outreachy round 11 has 9 featured project ideas and 5 proposals submitted by candidates welcoming community feedback. The deadline for submissions is 2015-11-02.
• Google Code-in 2015 is coming, and our planning has started.

Documentation

• API:Presenting Wikidata knowledge is a new article for the Web APIs hub.

Community health

• The discussion about the Code of Conduct draft welcomes feedback on these points:
  • "Publication of non-harassing private communication" (new proposal)
  • "Project administrators and maintainers have the right and responsibility..." (rewording proposal)
  • Finishing the "Report a problem" section (new)

Project management

• Now anybody can join and watch the Operations project in Phabricator. (Phab:T90491)
• Are the Commons, Wikisource, and Wiktionary projects in Phabricator useful? (Phab:T111046)

Code review

• Gerrit Cleanup Day: lessons learned and proposal for a new edition in January 2016.
• Decide/document whether "controversial" changes should be marked as CR-2 in Code Review. (Phab:T115850)

Metrics

• Open changesets without code review is now fixed. The 3 oldest changesets haven't been updated since 2013; 2 were uploaded by volunteers. (Phab:T112661)
• Phab:T110520 fixed means that now it is easy to track code review metrics for specific repositories, for instance MediaWiki core.
• Now we have metrics for all Wikimedia tech IRC channels with logs. (Phab:T56230)

Code repositories with slowest code review:

1. Wikistats: 475 days, 5 changesets. (T113695)
2. BookManagerv2: 443 days, 21 changesets.
3. BayesianFilter: 386 days, 1 changeset.
4. extdist: 312 days, 1 changeset.
5. Bootstrap: 281 days, 1 changeset.

Metrics

Code repositories with slowest code review:

1. Wikistats: 475 days, 5 changesets. (T113695)
2. Collection/OfflineContentGenerator/latex renderer: 463 days, 4 changesets.
3. BookManagerv2: 443 days, 21 changesets.
4. BayesianFilter: 386 days, 1 changeset.
5. Babel: 370 days, 1 changeset.

Metrics

• Code repositories with slowest code review:
  1. Wikistats: 475 days, 5 changesets. (T113695)
  2. Collection/OfflineContentGenerator/latex renderer: 463 days, 4 changesets.
  3. EducationProgram: 459 days, 2 changesets.
  4. BookManagerv2: 443 days, 21 changesets.
  5. BayesianFilter: 386 days, 1 changeset.