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Software
- MediaWiki 1.26 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26> now
available (announcement
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.announce/251>)
- Programmers Turn Wikipedia Into Music to Make a Point
<http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/16/programmers-turn-wikipedia-into-music-to-make-a-point>
(KQED
article)
- Drawing Questions from Wikidata
<ftp://ftp.tik.ee.ethz.ch/pub/students/2015-FS/BA-2015-13.pdf> (ETH
Zürich bachelor thesis)
- OOjs UI <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OOjs_UI> 0.14.0 Release
(breaking change, announcement
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/85007>
)
EventsPast
- Video recording <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEru0ccdLSA> of WMF
Discovery and Reading showcase on 2015-11-16.
- Meeting notes
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2015-11-18> of WMF Scrum
of scrums on 2015-11-18.
- Meeting logs
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2015/wikimedia-office.2015-11-19-19.00.html>
of IRC office hour <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours>
on 2015-11-19 19:00 UTC
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20151119T19&p1=%3A&ah=1>
: Reconnecting with the shared hosting community
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113210> (announcement
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/80047>)
- Technical needs <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/wscon2015needs>
identified
at 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.
- Video stream and slides
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightning_Talks#November_2015> of Lightning
Talks
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightning_Talks#Upcoming_Lightning_Talks> on
2015-11-24.
- Meeting logs
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2015/wikimedia-office.2015-11-25-13.00.html>
of IRC office hour <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours> on
2015-11-25: Language Engineering.
- Meeting notes
<https://notes.wikimedia.fr/public_pad/Wikidata%2026%20novembre%202015> (in
French) of Ateliers Wikidata
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fr:Wikip%C3%A9dia:Ateliers_Wikidata#Paris.2C_26.2F11.2F2015>
on
2015-11-26 in Paris.
Upcoming
- 2015-12-2/4 Bangalore: Grace Hopper Celebration India
<http://ghcindia.anitaborg.org/> (call for Wikimedians
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/85000>
)
- 2015-12-10 IRC office hour
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours>: Discussion about
product development
- 2015-12-14: Wikimedia Product showcase
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Product#Monthly_Product_Showcase>
.
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] 2015-12-22: Upcoming Lightning Talks
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightning_Talks#Upcoming_Lightning_Talks>.
You can sign up or propose a talk.
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] 2016-01-04/06 San Francisco: Wikimedia
Developer Summit 2016
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2016>
- Skeleton schedule for Tuesday 4
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2016/2016-01-04>
and Wednesday 5
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2016/2016-01-05>
combine
slots for pre-scheduled sessions and unconference rooms. (T116024
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116024>)
- "Must have" sessions are being selected. (T119593
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119593>)
- 2016-03-30 / 2016-04-03 Jerusalem: Wikimedia Hackathon 2016
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2016> (new wiki
page, work in progress)
- Idea: Engaging developer communities. (T119694
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119694>)
- Idea: Connect the priorities of the Community Wishlist and other
tech priorities. (T119703 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119703>)
Documentation
- Commons media of the month <http://chimeces.com/photo-of-the-day/> example
web app written in ClojureScript. (announcement
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/85002>
, source <https://github.com/joakin/photo-of-the-day>, ClojureScript
online workshop
<http://chimeces.com/cljs-browser-repl/#/notebook/diving-into-clojurescript/file/index>
)
Community health
- Proposal: MediaWiki Group WikiWerkers
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals/WikiWerkers> (
announcement
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/85003>
)
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] Code of Conduct draft
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_conduct_for_technical_spaces/Draft>
- The section Report a problem
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Report_a_problem>
has
been frozen after a round of feedback.
- The page about handling cases, responses and resolutions, and
appeals
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Finalize_the_Cases_page>
welcomes
edits and feedback.
Project management
- Phlogiston <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phlogiston> is a reporting
tool for Phabricator. (live instance
<http://phlogiston.wmflabs.org/>, Community
Tech example report <http://phlogiston.wmflabs.org/cot.html>)
- Wikimedia Engineering 2015-16 Q3 Goals
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q3_Goals> are
being drafted.
- New page: Wikimedia Product
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Product>.
Metrics
Code repositories with slowest code review
<http://korma.wmflabs.org/browser/gerrit_review_queue.html>:
1. UploadWizard
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/project:mediawiki/extensions/UploadWizard+status:open,n,z>:
512 days, 9 changesets. (T119764
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119764>)
2. Wikistats
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/project:analytics/wikistats+status:open,n,z>:
505 days, 5 changesets. (T113695
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113695>)
3. BookManagerv2
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions/BookManagerv2,n,z>:
473 days, 19 changesets. (T117105
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117105>)
4. BayesianFilter
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions/BayesianFilter,n,z>:
416 days, 1 changeset. (T118460
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118460>)
5. TitleBlacklist
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions/TitleBlacklist,n,z>:
336 days, 1 changeset.
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Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil