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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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Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil