Thank you for your feedback! Please keep it coming.
Web version: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Relations/Weekly_summary#2015-12-03
Plaintext version
== 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.201...]
* 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_me...]
=== 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_reposi...]
=== 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_Phabricator]
* 255 new accounts in Wikimedia Phabricator (was 348 in October).[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_metrics#New_accounts_in_Phabricator]
My feedback last time was "could you put some of the content in the email so we don't have to open 15 links to find out what's going on? Some of this is pretty contextless". This looks pretty much the same.
On 3 December 2015 at 07:50, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
Thank you for your feedback! Please keep it coming.
Web version: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Relations/Weekly_summary#2015-12-03
Plaintext version
== 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.201...]
- 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_me...]
=== 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_reposi...]
=== 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_Phabricator]
- 255 new accounts in Wikimedia Phabricator (was 348 in
October).[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_metrics#New_accounts_in_Phabricator]
-- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
I am positive that people will be subscribing to a newsletter with the name 'Developer Relations Weekly Summary' soon, which will send the Echo notifs, and people do directly look at the wiki page :)
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Newsletter
Thanks, Tony Thomas http://blog.tttwrites.in/ ThinkFOSS http://www.thinkfoss.com
*"where there is a wifi, there is a way"*
On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 7:53 PM, Oliver Keyes okeyes@wikimedia.org wrote:
My feedback last time was "could you put some of the content in the email so we don't have to open 15 links to find out what's going on? Some of this is pretty contextless". This looks pretty much the same.
On 3 December 2015 at 07:50, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
Thank you for your feedback! Please keep it coming.
Web version:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Relations/Weekly_summary#2015-12-03
Plaintext version
== 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.201... ]
- 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_me... ]
=== 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_reposi... ]
=== 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_Phabricator ]
- 255 new accounts in Wikimedia Phabricator (was 348 in
October).[
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_metrics#New_accounts_in_Phabricator ]
-- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
-- Oliver Keyes Count Logula Wikimedia Foundation
Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Oliver Keyes okeyes@wikimedia.org wrote:
My feedback last time was "could you put some of the content in the email so we don't have to open 15 links to find out what's going on? Some of this is pretty contextless". This looks pretty much the same.
Actually your feedback was
Could you quickly summarise in text what the team has been working on and what they will be next?
Based on this, a new section "Developer Relations focus" has been added. Each point of that section tries to provide in a sentence enough information for the reader to decide whether you want to click the link or not. Could you point to the contextless examples, please? This will help fine tuning the wording next time.
I think the value of this newsletter is precisely to compile several links to current activities that otherwise are spread through different sources. I understand most people are not interested in all the links, but different people will be interested in different links to different degrees. Text formating, an amazing invention, makes selective reading easier in the web version, which is only one click away. :)
Point! On that front it is much improved; thank you :)
On 3 December 2015 at 11:20, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Oliver Keyes okeyes@wikimedia.org wrote:
My feedback last time was "could you put some of the content in the email so we don't have to open 15 links to find out what's going on? Some of this is pretty contextless". This looks pretty much the same.
Actually your feedback was
Could you quickly summarise in text what the team has been working on and what they will be next?
Based on this, a new section "Developer Relations focus" has been added. Each point of that section tries to provide in a sentence enough information for the reader to decide whether you want to click the link or not. Could you point to the contextless examples, please? This will help fine tuning the wording next time.
I think the value of this newsletter is precisely to compile several links to current activities that otherwise are spread through different sources. I understand most people are not interested in all the links, but different people will be interested in different links to different degrees. Text formating, an amazing invention, makes selective reading easier in the web version, which is only one click away. :)
-- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org