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Technical Community Newsletter/2023/October

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Welcome to the October 2023 edition of the Wikimedia Technical Community Newsletter, your source for updates, highlights, and insights from the past quarter, as well as a sneak peek into the exciting events on our horizon for the next quarter.

We believe in the power of community, and that includes your voice. Do you have something remarkable to share in the next quarterly newsletter? Perhaps a groundbreaking project, an event announcement, or an achievement you're particularly proud of? Add your suggestion to the talk page. We'd love to hear from you!

Highlights

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  • Congratulations to the Tech Contributor of the year - User:Zabe!🎉 He was honored with the prestigious award at the Wikimania Conference in Singapore. We are truly fortunate to have you as an integral part of our community. Congratulations once again, on this well-deserved recognition.
  • The Wikimania Conference, which took place in Singapore from August 16th to August 19th, 2023, featured an engaging hackathon in which members of the technical community worked on several interesting projects. Here’s a quick look at some of the showcased projects:
  1. User Script to enable 3D Models category in Commons main section
  2. Wikidata + Maps in PAWS
  3. What is Phorge Phorging
  4. ToolForge Health Dashboard Tool (ToolWatch)
  5. Wikipedia 1.0 toolset new selection tool
  6. QID on Navigation Popups
  7. Special:Investigate was broken on all wikis?!
  8. OATHAuth multiple devices DB work
  9. Add edit count and user creation date to Special:Contributions
  10. Twitter to Commons
  11. SPARQL Challenge
  12. Bengali currency numerals to pagelist widget
  13. Wikisource text annotator
  • If you were unable to attend the event or missed any portion of the sessions, we encourage you to visit the Foundation's YouTube channel for a comprehensive viewing experience.

What's new

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Technical Community Spotlight

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Introducing the very first edition of our Technical Community Spotlight. Brace yourselves as we unveil the awe-inspiring accomplishments of the African Wikimedia Technical Community!

Read all about it here!

Community metrics Q3 2023 (Phabricator and Gerrit)

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  • Number of tasks created: 6902
  • Number of tasks closed: 6339
  • Number of different people who created tasks: 973
  • Number of different people who closed tasks: 496
  • 335 people wrote patches (113 of them being volunteers)

Recent blog posts

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Get involved!

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