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== 2015-12-03 ==
Help develop the next [[Developer Relations/Weekly summary/Next|next summary]].
=== Developer Relation focus ===
* Recruit Google Code-in mentors [
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115409]
* WikiDev16 program: "must have" sessions and keynotes.
[
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116024]
* Agreement with Wikimedia Israel on the basics of the Wikimedia
Hackathon budget, registration, and schedule
[
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2016]
* Check whether it is true that we have lost 40% of (Git) code
contributors in the past 12 months
[
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103292]
* Prioritizing volunteer contributions in free software development
[
https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/2015/12/01/volunteer-contributions/]
* Planning our quarterly goals for January - March 2016
[
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Relations/Goals]
* Planning our December sprint
[
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/devrel-december-2015]
Check more details in #devrel-december-2015
[
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/devrel-december-2015/]
=== Software ===
* Working with Wikipedia articles (Hypothes.is blog)
[
https://hypothes.is/blog/working-with-wikipedia-articles/]
* Artificial intelligence service gives Wikipedians ‘X-ray specs’ to
see through bad edits
[
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/11/30/artificial-intelligence-x-ray-specs/]
* REST API for Wikidata
[
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.wikidata/6814]
* New Wikidata game: Author Language
[
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/distributed/#game=21]
* The case for a MediaWiki LTS release
[
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/85098]
=== Events ===
==== Past ====
* 2015-12-02: Use <figure> for media, RfC meeting notes.
[
https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2015/wikimedia-office.20…]
* 2015-12-02: WMF Scrum of Scrums meeting notes.
[
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2015-12-2]
==== Upcoming ====
* 2015-12-09: RfC meeting: [
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E107]
** Graph/Graphoid/Kartographer - data storage architecture
[
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119043]
** Parametric JSON builder [
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119050]
* 2015-12-10: IRC office hour: Discussion about product development
* 2015-12-14: Wikimedia Product showcase.
[
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Product#Monthly_Product_Showcase]
* 2015-12-15: Tech Talk: How to integrate user behavior to get better
designs [
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119958]
* 2015-12-22: Upcoming_Lightning_Talks. You can sign up or propose a
talk [
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightning_Talks#Upcoming_Lightning_Talks]
* 2016-01-04/06 San Francisco: Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016
[
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2016]
** Feedback on "must have" sessions is welcomed by Monday, December 7
[
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/85077]
* 2016-03-30 / 2016-04-03 Jerusalem: Wikimedia Hackathon 2016
[
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2016]
** Discuss: Connect the priorities of the Community Wishlist and other
tech priorities with the Wikimedia Hackathon 2016
[
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119703]
=== Outreach ===
* 2015-12-07: Beginning of Google Code-in 2015
[
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2015]
** Mentors and tasks are welcomed!
[
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2015#Become_a_Wikimedia_GCI_m…]
=== Community health ===
* [[Expected behavior]]
* [[Code of conduct for technical spaces/Draft|Code of Conduct draft]]
** The page about
[[Talk:Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Finalize_the_Cases_page|handling cases,
responses and resolutions, and appeals]] welcomes edits and feedback.
=== Project management ===
* 2015 Community Wishlist Survey welcomes votes until Monday, December
14 [
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey]
* The process to create projects in Phabricator has been simplified
for #Project-Creators.
[
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Creating_and_renaming_projects]
=== Code review ===
* Process to request a new repository in Phabricator's Diffusion
[
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Diffusion#Requesting_a_new_repos…]
=== Metrics ===
==== Gerrit ====
Due to a data refresh problem, we have no new metrics this week. :(
==== Phabricator ====
A quieter month?
* 818 active users in Wikimedia Phabricator during November (was 885
in
October).[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_metrics#Active_users_in_…
* 255 new accounts in Wikimedia Phabricator (was 348 in
October).[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_metrics#New_accounts_in_…
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Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil