Hello all!
The Search Platform Team usually holds an open meeting on the first
Wednesday of each month. Come talk to us about anything related to
Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), Wikimedia Commons Query
Service (WCQS), etc.!
Feel free to add your items to the Etherpad Agenda for the next meeting.
Details for our next meeting:
Date: Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Time: 16:00-17:00 UTC / 08:00 PST / 11:00 EST / 17:00 CET
Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours
Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/vgj-bbeb-uyi
Join by phone: https://tel.meet/vgj-bbeb-uyi?pin=8118110806927
Have fun and see you soon!
Guillaume
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*Guillaume Lederrey* (he/him)
Engineering Manager
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello,
Community Wishathon is coming next month: March 15th-17th, 2024! So far, 78
participants have signed up to attend this online event since its first
announcement in December 2023 🎉
You can check out the project ideas and schedule on the event page at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:WishathonMarch2024>. These ideas come
from the wishes people share in Community Wishlist Survey <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey>. If you're a
user, developer, designer, or product lead, you are welcome to join! You
can sign up for the event on the wiki page and add your name, time zone,
and preferred contact method to a project by *February 15th, 2024*.
Before the event, you can learn about the projects and connect with others
who are interested. You can contact them using their preferred contact
method and consider forming project groups on Telegram.
During the event, there will be an opening session to introduce the event
and project ideas, async time for working on projects, self-organized
virtual project group meetings, and a showcase ceremony to share what each
group accomplished during the event. If you want to help with the event or
have questions, let us know on the event's talk page.
Cheers,
Srishti
On behalf of the Wishathon organizing committee
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello everyone,
The second edition of the Language & Internationalization newsletter
(January 2024) is available at this link: <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_engineering/Newsletter/20…
>.
This newsletter is compiled by the Wikimedia Language team. It provides
updates from October–December 2023 quarter on new feature development,
improvements in various language-related technical projects and support
efforts, details about community meetings, and contributions ideas to get
involved in projects.
To stay updated, you can subscribe to the newsletter on its wiki page. If
you have any feedback or ideas for topics to feature in the newsletter,
please share them on the discussion page, accessible here: <
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikimedia_Language_enginee…
>.
Cheers,
Srishti
On behalf of the WMF Language team
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>