Help develop the next summary here https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Developer_Relations/Weekly_summary/Next&action=edit&redlink=1 ! Software
- MediaWiki 1.26 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26 release is approaching. You can help addressing blockers https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/jcSXdUecbcLp/#R. - Many software news around Wikidata's 3rd birthday https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Third_Birthday on 2015-10-29 \o/ - Poof it works - using wikidata to build Wikipedia articles about genes http://i9606.blogspot.de/2015/10/poof-it-works-using-wikidata-to-build.html - Wikidata Taxonomy Browser http://sergestratan.bitbucket.org/ (Announcement and discussion http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.wikidata/6489) - "Just about a week after its inception, the Distributed Game https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/distributed/ has passed 10K actions. Enough to see some interesting patterns in the stats https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/distributed/#mode.3Dstats." (source http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=369) - Harvest templates https://tools.wmflabs.org/pltools/harvesttemplates/. New tool to copy data from templates to Wikidata. - ORES https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Third_Birthday/Presents/ORES, a machine learning model for detecting vandalism in Wikidata. - Pronuncify https://github.com/abartov/pronuncify, a new tool to record batches of word pronunciations for Wikimedia Commons. - MediaWiki-Codesniffer 0.5.0 released http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/84566, is now voting on MediaWiki core patches http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/84288 . - JetBrains IDE licenses for MW developers http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/84536
Events
- Tech Talk: Nothing Left but Always Right: The Twisted Road to RTL Support https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/103470172168784626509/events/ck5ibgn8l2t056h5rii90fv6ne4 on 2015-11-02 20:00 UTC http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Tech+Talk%3A+Nothing+Left+but+Always+Right%3A+The+Twisted+Road+to+RTL+Support&iso=20151102T20&p1=%3A&ah=1, by MSchottlender (WMF) https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:MSchottlender_(WMF) aka Mooeypoo https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Mooeypoo. - Wikisource Conference 2015 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Community_User_Group/Wikisource_Conference_2015 (includes hackathon and technical workshops) on 20-22 Nov 2015 in Vienna. - The Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2016 has 24 session proposals on track https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikimedia-developer-summit-2016/, 10 missing active discussion, 19 missing expected information. - By 2015-11-06 all Summit proposals must have active discussions and a Summit https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2016#Submissions_and_selection_process plan documented in the description. - Video recording of Tech Talk: Introduction to Free and Open Source Licensing at Wikimedia https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/caldda1kv3bnde8d50qi4nkf82s . - Video recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUQ5d192z3M of the last round of Lightning Talks https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightning_Talks.
Outreach
- Outreachy round 11 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_11 has 9 featured project ideas https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/possible-tech-projects/ and 10 proposals submitted by candidates https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/outreachy-round-11/ welcoming community feedback. The deadline for submissions is 2015-11-02.
Community health
- The discussion about the Code of Conduct draft https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_conduct_for_technical_spaces/Draft welcomes feedback on Finishing the "Report a problem" section https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Finishing_the_.22Report_a_problem.22_section .
Project management
- MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group/Tasks/Feature wishlist https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Stakeholders%27_Group/Tasks/Feature_wishlist (phab:T954 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T954)
Code review
- Opt-in Differential for projects needing code review but not Jenkins/Zuul for continuous integration (phab:T94167 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94167)
Metrics
Code repositories with slowest code review http://korma.wmflabs.org/browser/gerrit_review_queue.html:
1. Wikistats https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/project:analytics/wikistats+status:open,n,z: 475 days, 5 changesets. (T113695 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113695) 2. BookManagerv2 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions/BookManagerv2,n,z: 443 days, 21 changesets. 3. BayesianFilter https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions/BayesianFilter,n,z: 386 days, 1 changeset. 4. extdist https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:labs/tools/extdist,n,z: 312 days, 1 changeset. 5. WikimediaMaintenance https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaMaintenance,n,z: 296 days, 2 changesets.
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