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Software
- Wikimedia UI elements available in HTML + Bootstrap
<http://wikimedia-ui.wmflabs.org/> help you producing quick and visually
accurate mockups. (demo
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNAQD4RCeWM&feature=youtu.be&t=1997>,
discussion
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.design/1390>)
- OOjs UI <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OOjs_UI> 0.13.0 (breaking
change, announcement
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/84712>
)
- Kiwix <http://www.kiwix.org/> for iOS 1.2 (announcement
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/offline-l/2015-October/001343.html>
, download <https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kiwix/id997079563>)
Events
- The Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2016> has 27
session proposals on track
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikimedia-developer-summit-2016/>,
12 missing active discussion, 12 missing expected information.
- By 2015-11-06 all Summit proposals must have active discussions and
a Summit plan
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2016#Submissions_and_selection_process>
documented
in the description.
- Invitation to Wikimania 2016 Scholarship Committee
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2015-November/079655.html>
(deadline:
2015-11-15)
- 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.
- Upcoming Lightning Talks
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightning_Talks#Upcoming_Lightning_Talks> on
2015-11-24. You can sign up or propose a talk.
- Video recording of Tech Talk: Nothing Left but Always Right: The
Twisted Road to RTL Support
<https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/103470172168784626509/events/ck5ibgn8l2t056h5rii90fv6ne4>
Documentation
- New: Presenting Wikidata knowledge
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Presenting_Wikidata_knowledge>.
Display multilingual information from Wikidata in your application by
associating items with 'Q' entities.
Outreach
- After the deadline for submitting Outreachy round 11
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_11> proposals, Wikimedia
mentors are evaluating 14 candidates
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/outreachy-round-11/>. Community
feedback is especially welcomed now. Selected participants will be
announced on 2015-11-17. The proposals, sorted by order of submission:
- Easier categorization of pictures in Upload to Commons Android app
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115101>, by josephine_l
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/josephine_l/>
- Improving static analysis tools for MediaWiki
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115585>, by TasneemLo
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/TasneemLo/>
- Add ZIM format support for OCG
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115907>, by Minervaxox
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Minervaxox/>
- Wiki 3d warehouse <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115987>, by
Jeeltcraft <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Jeeltcraft/>
- Making Education Dash Program usable for all languages and projects
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116201>, by Haritha28
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Haritha28/>
- Implement HTML e-mail support in MediaWiki
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116223>, by rosalieper
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/rosalieper/>
- Extension to transclude Git content into Wiki Pages
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116277>, by Galorefitz
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Galorefitz/>
- Implement HTML e-mail support in MediaWiki
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116303>, by Devirk
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Devirk/>
- Add ZIM format support for OCG
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116482>, by Adishaporwal
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Adishaporwal/>
- Improving MediaWikiAnalysis
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116733>, by Anmolkalia
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Anmolkalia/>
- Technology to transclude git content into wiki pages
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117167>, by Akangupt
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Akangupt/>
- Making Education Dash Program usable for all languages and projects
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117363>, by Wdssilva
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Wdssilva/>
- Making Education Dash Program usable for all languages and projects
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117372>, by Kenua
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Kenua/>
- Technology to transclude git content into wiki pages
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117426>, by Shrutika719
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Shrutika719/>
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>.
Open topics:
- "All reports will be processed confidentially"
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct/Draft#.22All_reports_will_be_processed_confidentially.22>
- If you send a report to maintainers, include a reference to this
document
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct/Draft#If_you_send_a_report_to_maintainers.2C_include_a_reference_to_this_document>
Project management
- No news?
Code review
- Wikia <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikia> has instituted a review
process for sitewide JavaScript pages
<http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Help:JavaScript_review_process> after
experiencing two attacks
<http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:890734> that
revoked certain permissions to admins. (source
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T71445>)
Metrics
- m:Gadgets <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gadgets> offers monthly
reports about usage of Gadgets in Wikimedia wikis.
- Related, the announcement
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/84737>
of
the new Special:GadgetUsage report available in all wikis.
Gerrit
Key performance indicators
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_metrics#Key_performance_indicators>
[1] <http://korma.wmflabs.org/browser/kpi_overview.html> [2]
<http://korma.wmflabs.org/browser/repository.html?repository=gerrit.wikimedia.org_mediawiki_core>
- Median age of open changesets waiting for review: 36.4 days in October
(was 36.2 in September, 54.4 a year ago)
- MediaWiki core: 64.2 days (was 58.2, 65.1)
- Number of open changesets waiting for review: 1183 (was 1053, 1052)
- MediaWiki core: 208 (was 200, 267)
- Number of new changesets submitted per month: 3421 (was 3703, 3164)
- MediaWiki core: 508 (was 512, 526)
- Number of code uploaders per month: 212 (was 214)
- Number of code reviewers per month: 195 (was 195)
- Number of code committers per month: 131 (was 131)
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>:
505 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>:
473 days, 21 changesets. (T117105
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117105>)
3. BayesianFilter
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions/BayesianFilter,n,z>:
416 days, 1 changeset.
4. UploadWizard
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions/UploadWizard,n,z>:
383 days, 12 changesets.
5. extdist
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:labs/tools/extdist,n,z>:
342 days, 1 changeset.
Phabricator
- 885 active users in Wikimedia Phabricator
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_metrics> during October, our
highest number so far.
- 348 new accounts in Wikimedia Phabricator
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_metrics> (was 363 in
September).
--
Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil