(An early heads-up that Google Code-in 2017 has been announced.)
GCI is an annual contest for 13-17 year old students. It will take
place from Nov28 to Jan17 and is not only about coding tasks.
For some achievements from last round, see
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/02/03/google-code-in/
For complete info about Google Code-in, check
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Mentors
While we wait whether Wikimedia will get accepted:
* You have small, self-contained bugs you'd like to see fixed?
* Your documentation needs specific improvements?
* Your user interface has small design issues?
* Your Outreachy/Summer of Code project welcomes small tweaks?
* You'd enjoy helping someone port your template to Lua?
* Your gadget code uses some deprecated API calls?
* You have tasks in mind that welcome some research?
Also note that "Beginner tasks" (e.g. "Set up Vagrant" etc) and
"generic" tasks are very welcome (e.g. "Choose & fix 2 PHP7 issues
from the list in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120336 ").
Because we will need hundreds of tasks. :)
And we also have more than 400 unassigned open 'easy' tasks listed:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/HCyOonSbFn.z/#R
Please take a moment to find / update [Phabricator etc.] tasks in your
p
roject(s) which would take an experienced contributor 2-3 hours. Check
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Mentors
and please ask if you have any questions!
Thanks!,
andre
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Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler
http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
Sorry for cross-posting!
Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **today 3-4 pm UTC** on
#wikimedia-tech.
The Technical Advice IRC meeting is open for all volunteer developers,
topics and questions. This can be anything from "how to get started" over
"who would be the best contact for X" to specific questions on your project.
If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your
topic to the next meeting:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting
This meeting is an offer by WMDE’s tech team.
Hope to see you there!
Michi (for WMDE’s tech team)
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Michael F. Schönitzer
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
FYI
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Claudia Garád <claudia.garad(a)wikimedia.at>
Date: Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 3:39 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Diversity Award for the mentoring program of the
2017 Wikimedia Hackathon in Vienna
To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Hello everyone!
We wanted to share some good news with you: Our international team around
the Wikimedia Hackathon mentoring program won the first Austrian Open
Source Award in the category "Diversity" [1].
The Austrian Open Source Award was established this year in order to raise
awareness and visibility for our local Open Source Communities and their
projects. The jury consisted of representatives from across the various
Open Communities in Austria (Open Knowledge, Linux, and Drupal among
others) and honoured outstanding projects in the categories Open Data, Open
Software, Open Hardware, and Diversity.
The Jury particularly mentioned our comprehensive documentation under a
free license which enables other event organizers to apply our ideas and
concepts and to build on them [2] [3].
We are very happy about this positive signal for inclusive events, which
make it easier for all newcomers to join our great communities and we hope
it encourages even more people to also make our other Wikimedia events more
and more newcomer friendly. A special thanks goes to our awesome mentors
who were the heart and soul of the mentoring program and the Hackathon!
For more information about what we learned around the mentoring program you
can also check out our post from the Wikimedia Blog [4].
[1]: https://www.openminds.at/
[2]:https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/Handbook
[3]:https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2017/
Mentoring_Program
[4]: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/05/31/vienna-hackathon-learnings/
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Claudia Garád
Executive Director
*Wikimedia Österreich*
Stolzenthalergasse /1
1070 Wien
www.wikimedia.at
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Hi Community Metrics team,
This is your automatic monthly Phabricator statistics mail.
Accounts created in (2017-09): 336
Active Maniphest users (any activity) in (2017-09): 902
Task authors in (2017-09): 469
Users who have closed tasks in (2017-09): 282
Projects which had at least one task moved from one column to another on
their workboard in (2017-09): 311
Tasks created in (2017-09): 2408
Tasks closed in (2017-09): 1906
Open and stalled tasks in total: 36110
Median age in days of open tasks by priority:
Unbreak now: 14
Needs Triage: 314
High: 556
Normal: 767
Low: 1025
Lowest: 998
(How long tasks have been open, not how long they have had that priority)
Active Differential users (any activity) in (2017-09): 19
TODO: Numbers which refer to closed tasks might not be correct, as
described in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T1003 .
Yours sincerely,
Fab Rick Aytor
(via community_metrics.sh on phab1001 at Sun Oct 1 00:00:24 UTC 2017)