Hello,

We wanted to give a quick update on what happened during day 3 of the Wikimedia Technical Conference https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2019, in Atlanta, Georgia.

*Thursday https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2019/Program#Day_3_-_Thursday_November_14th, November 14, 2019:* Morning sessions were all really good, and we did dot voting on unconference topics during our breaks. Afternoon was spent on a large portion of those unconference sessions.

The morning sessions covered:

- Self-service Stateless Microservices (for APIs) (ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234646) - What have we learned when deploying a standalone server side rendering service for the new mobile Wikidata termbox (ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234642) - The test pyramid and speeding up your results (ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234637) - Mediawiki Code Ownership (ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234655) - Running tests locally: an introduction (ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234638) - Restructure Rest API and services (ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238257)

Afternoon sessions and unconferences:

- Federated MediaWiki (ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238383) - Language metadata in mediawiki (ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234644) - RFCs / TechCom: how could RFCs be more useful (ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216308) - Ideas for proposing changes to validating with our communities (ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238265) - Automate wiki creation (ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238255 ) - Small things to improve in wikisources (ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238263) - Interactive content at Wikimedia: how to even start (ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238259) - CI counseling session 100% free (ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238275) - Wikibase, Wikidata & things (ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238252) - Movement Strategy 2030 - How do we know we are productive? Eng metrics (ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238384) - MediaWiki Config mgmt @ scale (ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238273) - WBStack.com Wikibase as a service (shared platform) MVP /prototype demo - Discourse extension for MediaWiki

We ended the day with cleaning up documentation from the day's sessions and moving them into the phabricator tickets (to keep all the data in one place), taking pictures of the session sticky notes / diagrams, and then adding them also into the phabricator tickets.

Photos and documentation that have been uploaded can be viewed using this category https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Technical_Conference_2019 (look for day 3 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Technical_Conference_2019,_day_3) on Commons: Category:Wikimedia Technical Conference 2019 (sample media: unconference template https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMTC19_unconference_template.jpg).

Cheers,

The Wikimedia Technical Conference Program Committee

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deb tankersley (she/her)

program manager, engineering

Wikimedia Foundation