Original version: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Relations/Weekly_summary#2015-11-27
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- 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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