Web version: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Relations/Weekly_summary#2015-12-10

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=== Developer Relations focus ===

* Google Code-in: program start [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111520]

* WikiDev16 ** finalizing logistics (contracts, video, transport, social events, and more) [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111799] ** "must have" sessions and keynotes [ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116024] ** cordinate Collaboration area [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119030]

* Planning our quarterly goals for January - March 2016 [ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Relations/Goals]

* Code of Conduct: implications and legal requirements of reports affecting Wikimedia Foundation employees

Check more details in #devrel-december-2015 [ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/devrel-december-2015/]

=== Software ===

* Survey: Understanding third-party use of Wikipedia content [ https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1yUrHzyLABN419RCDbzepjoRWCbaWYV4wbtbKPa95C4o... ]

* Wikimedia IEG program will fund fourteen community-led projects (7 of them software based) (Wikimedia blog) [ http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/12/04/ieg-funds-fourteen-projects/] ** Batch Uploader for small GLAM projects [ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Batch_uploader_for_small_GLAM_pro... ] ** Pan Scandinavian Machine Assisted Content Translation [ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Pan-Scandinavian_Machine-assisted... ] ** Wiki Needs Pictures [ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wiki_needs_pictures] ** Wikimaps Warper 2.0 [ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikimaps_Warper_2.0] ** StrepHit: Wikidata Statements Validation via Reference [ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Val... ] ** Semi-automatically generate Categories for Vietnamese Wikipedia [ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Semi-automatically_generate_Categ... ] ** Proofreading semi-automatically the Catalan Wikipedia with LanguageTool [ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Proofreading_semiautomatically_th... ]

* Selection of media coverage of the release of the Objective Revision Evaluation Service (ORES) [ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Objective_Revision_Evaluation_Service] ** Artificial Intelligence and the Wisdom of the Crowd (HowStuffWorks, video) [http://shows.howstuffworks.com/now/wikipedia-trolls-video.htm] ** Artificial Intelligence Aims to Make Wikipedia Friendlier and Better (MIT Technology Review) [ http://www.technologyreview.com/news/544036/artificial-intelligence-aims-to-... ] ** Wikipedia launches edit-checking artificial intelligence (BBC News) [ http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34982570]

* The Wikipedia app for Android, selected among Best Apps of 2015 in Google Play. [https://play.google.com/store/info/topic?id=bestof2015_apps]

=== Events ===

==== Past ====

* 2015-12-09: RfC meeting minutes [ https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2015/wikimedia-office.201... ]

* 2015-12-09: Video of Tech Talk: Secure Coding For MediaWiki Developers [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKdufZQTTao]

==== Upcoming ====

* 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]

* 2015-12-16: RfC meeting [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E107]

* 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] ** "must have" sessions are being discussed and pre-scheduled [ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119593] ** Planning for the non-pre-scheduled tracks is about to start [ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120939]

* 2016-03-30 / 2016-04-03 Jerusalem: Wikimedia Hackathon 2016 [ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2016]

=== Documentation ===

* New draft: Gadgets 2.0. [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gadgets_2.0]

=== Outreach ===

* Google Code-in 2015 started last Monday and will continue until 2016-01-27 [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_me... ] ** Open tasks [ https://codein.withgoogle.com/tasks/?sp-organization=5505623550590976&sp... ]

* Outreachy round 11: community bonding completed for Easier categorization of pictures in Upload to Commons Android app (report) [ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119317]

=== Community health ===

* Working together on the problem of online harassment in Wikimedia communities (Wikimedia blog) [ http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/12/03/working-together-on-online-harassment/]

* Code of Conduct draft [ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Draft] ** The page about handling cases welcomes edits and feedback [ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Finalize_the_Cases... ] ** Appeals [ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Appeals] ** Removing detail in Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Responses_and_resolutions? [ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Removing_detail_in... ]

=== Project management ===

* 2015 Community Wishlist Survey welcomes votes until Monday, December 14 [ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey]

* Of Great Pyramids and agile software development: how and why we developed Phragile (Wikimedia blog) [ http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/12/08/why-we-developed-phragile/]

* Ideas for tech-related IdeaLab Campaigns? [ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Future_IdeaLab_Campaigns]

=== Code review ===

* Request for comment: Migrate code review and management to Phabricator from Gerrit. [ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Migrate_code_review_and_... ]

=== Metrics ===

* New metrics about downloads of extensions and skins via Extension Distributor [ https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/extension-distributor-downloads]

==== Gerrit ==== Key performance indicators [ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_metrics#Key_performance_indicators]

* Median age of open changesets waiting for review: 49.3 days in November (was 39.3 in October, 63.8 a year ago) ** MediaWiki core: 61.2 days (was 62, 80.5)

* Number of open changesets waiting for review: 1175 (was 1097, 1098) ** MediaWiki core: 239 (was 206, 266)

* Number of new changesets submitted per month: 2369 (was 3367, 2863) ** MediaWiki core: 531 (was 519, 524)

* Number of code uploaders per month: 201 (was 211) * Number of code reviewers per month: 181 (was 192) * Number of code committers per month: 125 (was 131)

Code repositories with slowest code review: [ http://korma.wmflabs.org/browser/gerrit_review_queue.html] # Wikistats: 535 days, 5 changesets [ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113695] # BookManagerv2: 504 days, 19 changesets [ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117105] # BayesianFilter: 416 days, 1 changeset [ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118460] # TitleBlacklist: 367 days, 1 changeset [ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions/... ] # Bootstrap: 341 days, 1 changeset [ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions/... ]