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-------- Original message --------From: Victoria Coleman <vcoleman(a)wikimedia.org> Date: 4/2/18 4:46 PM (GMT-08:00) To: "Staff (All)" <wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [MediaWiki-l] Announcing the Wikimedia Technical Conference
Hi everyone.
This is a time of important change for technology and the Wikimedia movement. We are evolving our platform to better support, grow, and prepare the movement for the future to realize our strategic goals of Knowledge as a Service and Knowledge Equity.
Our vision is to host a different type of event in 2018 — to make informed decisions in the evolution of our platform while building our technical community engagement and enhancing our product vision. We want to be able to gather and discuss to determine our future direction and that of our shared platform; to communicate more broadly our product vision and to build a solid and stable base for our volunteer developer community. Future years will have have different focuses and themes.
We also want to learn from our experiences during previous technically oriented events to improve our focus, enhance outcomes, and to give ourselves the time and space to have informed, substantive, and timely conversations — this all starts with the overall theme of the event.
The January 2018 Developer Summit (in Berkeley, California) event had a broad goal to look at ways that technology can support our strategic direction. A concrete outcome of those discussions was acknowledging the need to evolve our core platform for the road ahead. In light of that outcome, we will hold future events with themes that reflect our evolving priorities and opportunities to support and enhance the Wikimedia movement with technology. Therefore, our next technical event will be focused on Platform Evolution.
We will hold a 4 day conference with topics that pertain to the Platform Evolution goals that we want to achieve in the next 3 to 5 years with a shared understanding of the product vision around those goals while also enhancing technical engagement within the Foundation and embracing and empowering our large community of volunteer developers.
Day 1: Product driven discussions on the how’s and why’s of our shared goals.
Day 2 & 3: A deep dive into specific technical ideas, concerns, and outcomes around the newly formed Platform Evolution cross-departmental program.
Day 4: An unconference / ‘get stuff done’ format along with sessions on building and sustaining our developer community.
We are also moving the time of year that we’ll hold this new event. The previously established timeframe had been in January, typically adjacent to the annual Foundation All Hands gathering, to allow for co-location of events. However, feedback from both the DevSummit and All Hands participants indicates that both events need more time to accomplish their goals. All Hands is a once-a-year event that many teams use to come together, face to face, for working meetings; as well as the entire Foundation getting together for meetings. Going forward, we will decouple the DevSummit from All Hands, to give both gatherings the time and space that all attendees need to be productive and successful.
This first of the event series will take place in Q2 of our fiscal year 2018-2019, in October 2018, and will be held in Portland, OR, USA. This timing was chosen to give us the opportunity to formulate plans, proposals, and programs in time for the Foundation annual planning cycle which starts in January 2019.
Since we have a new focus and want to expand upon the successes of the Developer Summit events from years past — we will now call this gathering of like-minded technologists the Wikimedia Technical Conference (WM TechCon). Stay tuned for more information on the formation of the program committee and the participant’s selection process, as we are making quite a few changes based on the feedback collected from previous events.
Make sure to follow the event’s mediawiki page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2018> for more details.
Best wishes,
Victoria Coleman
Chief Technology Officer
Wikimedia Foundation
1 Montgomery Street, Suite 1600
San Francisco, CA 94104
+1-650-703-8112
vcoleman(a)wikimedia.org
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hi, is this list active?
there appears to be a dead link on the group page pointing to this list:
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dead link:
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also, the welcome email from this list has confusing info:
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and
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cheers
For a few years an interest of mine has been the possibility of Wikimedians
collaborating with North American indigenous peoples to educate the public
about North American indigenous languages, cultures, histories, and
religions.
In 2014, the *Signpost *published a report
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-07-02/WikiP…>
regarding English Wikipedia's WikiProject Indigenous Peoples of North
America.
In 2016, a keynote speaker at WikiConference North America was Stanley
Rodriguez, a member of the Santa Ysabel Band of the Iipay Nation and an
instructor of the Kumeyaay language
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumeyaay_language>.
In February 2018, the Affiliations Committee recognized the Wikimedians of
North American Indigenous Languages User Group
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_North_American_Indigenous_La…>.
Last week, those of us who participated in a United States Wikimedians
meeting had a brief discussion about the new user group.
I am grateful that there is interest in this subject among a variety of
Wikimedians in North America.
Perhaps you are wondering what the word "ullaakuut" means. It is a greeting
in Inuktitut <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuktitut>. (Experts in the
language are welcome to correct me or to provide additional information.)
What's making you happy this week? You are welcome to comment in any
language.
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
Hi Community Metrics team,
This is your automatic monthly Phabricator statistics mail.
Accounts created in (2018-03): 426
Active Maniphest users (any activity) in (2018-03): 975
Task authors in (2018-03): 560
Users who have closed tasks in (2018-03): 278
Projects which had at least one task moved from one column to another on
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Open and stalled tasks in total: 38023
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High: 653
Normal: 900
Low: 1167
Lowest: 1113
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TODO: Numbers which refer to closed tasks might not be correct, as
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Yours sincerely,
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