Hi everyone,
The Kubernetes Special Interest Group is now 18 months old. When we
started this group, we took the decision to only partially open it to
a wide audience, keeping some things accessible to WMF staff only,
while we were working on setting up the group.
What has always been publicly available to everyone is our IRC
channel, our mailing list and our monthly meeting notes, all of them
documented at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Kubernetes_SIG. What
hasn't been available is live participation in our Google Meeting
meetings and access to agenda and notes as the meeting takes place. We
mostly did this out of precaution while starting this new endeavor,
wanting to increase the chances that some urgent needs that were
present back then, would be served without being jeopardized by an
increased participation that we would not be able to handle
adequately. We think it's safe to say that the aforementioned needs
have been served and the group has been running smoothly for some time
now.
We are happy to open those last few aspects of this Special Interest
Group to everyone interested.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Kubernetes_SIG has been updated to
include a Google Meet link and a read only version of the agenda and
running meeting notes. We 'll also be adding a proper calendar event
link. We'll be happy to see increased participation in the group
This is a Wikimedia Movement venue and
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct applies.
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Alexandros Kosiaris
Principal Site Reliability Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
Hello,
I'm happy to announce that Wikimedia is participating in Round 29 of the
Outreachy program https://www.outreachy.org/ [1] that runs from December
2024 through March 2025! The deadline to submit projects on the Outreachy
website is September 11, 2024 at 4pm UTC and the project list will be
finalized by September 18, 2024.
We are currently gathering a list of interesting project ideas. If you have
some ideas for coding or non-coding (design, documentation, translation,
outreach, research) projects, please share them on this task:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T372834 [2].
*About the Outreachy Program*
Outreachy is a paid, remote three-month internship program. Outreachy's
goal is to support people from groups underrepresented in tech. We help
newcomers to free software and open source make their first contributions
in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), coding, and non-coding projects
with experienced mentors.
These internships run twice a year–from May to August and December to
March. Interns are paid a stipend of USD 7000 for the three months of work.
Outreachy internship projects may include programming, user experience,
documentation, illustration, graphical design, or data science. Interns
often find employment after their internship with Outreachy sponsors or in
jobs that use the skills they learned during their internship.
Outreachy is open to applicants around the world and the program is open to
both students and non-students; complete eligibility rules
<https://www.outreachy.org/docs/applicant/> [3]. Outreachy expressly
invites the following people to apply:
- Women (both cis and trans), trans men, non-binary people, and
genderqueer people.
- Anyone who faces under-representation, systematic bias, or
discrimination in the technology industry in their country of residence.
- Residents and nationals of the United States of America of any gender
who are Black/African American, Hispanic/Latin@, Native
American/American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific
Islander.
*Tips for mentors for proposing projects*
As a mentor, you will engage with potential candidates in the application
period during October and help them make small contributions to your
project. You will work more closely with the accepted candidates during the
internship period from December through March.
Each mentor will need to submit an intern project proposal:
https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/wikimedia/ [4]. The project
proposal will then be reviewed and approved by the FOSS community
coordinators. Additional co-mentors for the intern project will be able to
sign up for the project after it has been approved by the community
coordinator.
*Guidelines for Crafting Project Proposals*
- Follow this task description template when you propose a project in
Phabricator:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/outreach-programs-projects [5].
- Add *Outreachy (Round 29)* tag
- Project should require an experienced developer ~15 days and a
newcomer ~3 months to complete.
- Each project should have at least two mentors, with one of them
holding a technical background.
- Ideally, the project has no tight deadlines, a moderate learning
curve, and fewer dependencies on Wikimedia's core infrastructure. Projects
addressing the needs of a language community are most welcome.
- If you don't have an idea in mind and would like to pick one from an
existing list, check out these projects:
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/outreach-programs-projects [6]
- To learn more about the roles and responsibilities of mentors, visit
our resources on MediaWiki.org:
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Mentors [7]
We look forward to your participation!
Cheers,
Deb
[1] https://www.outreachy.org/
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T372834
[3] https://www.outreachy.org/docs/applicant/
[4] https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/wikimedia/
[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/outreach-programs-projects
[6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/outreach-programs-projects
[7] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Mentors
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deb tankersley (she/her)
senior technical program manager
Wikimedia Foundation
Dear MediaWiki Community,
the MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 will be held in Vienna, Austria, from November 4-6.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Users_and_Developers_Conference_Fa…
Important dates:
** September 15: Call for contribution ends! **
Please be quick if you want to present! Proposals can be submitted here: https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Users_and_Developers_Conf…
** September 30: Early bird deadline ends! **
Registration is open: https://mwstake.eventbrite.com/
You need to register in order to participate in Vienna. We have a limited capacity of 80 seats, so be quick and use the early bird rates!
** Sponsorship **
We thank our sponsors
* Blue Spice MediaWiki: https://bluespice.com/
* WikiTeq: https://www.wikiteq.com/
as well as Professioinal Wiki https://professional.wiki/ and Wikibase solutions: https://wikibase-solutions.com/
If you are interested in sponsoring, please contact us.
Hope to see you in Vienna!
Bernhard Krabina, General chair, bernhard.krabina(a)km-a.net<mailto:bernhard.krabina@km-a.net>
Sabine Melnicki, Program chair, sabine.melnicki(a)km-a.net<mailto:sabine.melnicki@km-a.net>
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, September 4, 2024
Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CEST
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/>
Hi. There is something wrong with test.wikipedia.org. Every time I refresh
the Global Watchlist for the last hour, I get an error message, appended.
It usually appears for all the wikis when there are internet problems,
first time I can see a consistent message for one particular wiki, and I'm
afraid it has something to do with the new MediaWiki version that was
deployed there an hour ago. I'm not creating a new phab task, because I do
not understand this area and has no idea what to write.
Igal (User:IKhitron)
Hi Community Metrics team,
This is your automatic monthly Phabricator statistics mail.
Accounts created in (2024-08): 233
Active Maniphest users (any activity) in (2024-08): 1091
Task authors in (2024-08): 563
Users who have closed tasks in (2024-08): 291
Projects which had at least one task moved from one column to another on
their workboard in (2024-08): 313
Tasks created in (2024-08): 2181
Tasks closed in (2024-08): 2094
Open and stalled tasks in total: 54129
* Only open tasks in total: 53118
* Only stalled tasks in total: 1011
Median age in days of open tasks by priority:
Unbreak now: 147
Needs Triage: 1048
High: 1264
Normal: 2102
Low: 2636
Lowest: 3185
(How long tasks have been open, not how long they have had that priority)
To see the names of the most active task authors:
* Go to https://wikimedia.biterg.io/
* Choose "Phabricator > Overview" from the top bar
* Adjust the time frame in the upper right corner to your needs
* See the author names in the "Submitters" panel
TODO: Numbers which refer to closed tasks might not be correct, as
described in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T1003 .
Yours sincerely,
Fab Rick Aytor
(via community_metrics.sh on phab1004 at Sun 01 Sep 2024 12:00:38 AM UTC)