Hello,
We wanted to give a quick update on what happened during day 2 of the Wikimedia Technical Conference https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2019, in Atlanta, Georgia.
*Wednesday https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2019/Program#Day_2_-_Wednesday_November_13th, November 13, 2019:* Morning sessions were large groups talking about Developer Productivity & onwiki tooling - lots of really good conversations about templates, gadgets, scripts, and modules (ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234661).
The afternoon sessions covered on:
- Platform Stewardship (ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234657) - On-wiki documentation & documentation as code (ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234634) - Standardizing QA best practices (ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234653) - Best practices and useful methods for remote teams - volunteers and staff alike (ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234658) - Code Health/Code Review (ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234660) - Quo Vadis Beta Cluster? Towards production-like testing and staging environments (ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234643) - Learning how WMDE improved their organizational structure (ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234652) - Release "strategies" (containers) for MediaWiki and other elements of Wikimedia platform (ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234644)
We ended the afternoon with cleaning up documentation from the day's sessions and moving them into the phabricator tickets (to keep all the data in one place), taking pictures of the session sticky notes / diagrams, and then adding them also into the phabricator tickets.
Photos and documentation that have been uploaded can be viewed using this category https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Technical_Conference_2019 (look for day 2 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Technical_Conference_2019,_day_2) on Commons: Category:Wikimedia Technical Conference 2019 (sample media: thank you goat https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMTC19_thank_you_goat.jpg and Amir and Global Templates https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Technical_Conference_2019-_Amir_Aharoni,_Global_Templates.webm ).
Cheers,
The Wikimedia Technical Conference Program Committee
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deb tankersley (she/her)
program manager, engineering
Wikimedia Foundation