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Technical Community Newsletter/2023/January

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The Wikimedia Technical Community Newsletter shares highlights and news from the past quarter and information about events coming up in the next quarter.

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Highlights

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Conferences and meetups

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  • The Wikimedia Hackathon will happen on 19–21 May 2023 in Athens, Greece. More information to come.
  • FOSDEM took place in Brussels, Belgium on the weekend of 4–5 February with numerous Wikimedia attendees.

Community metrics in Phabricator and Gerrit

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  • Number of tasks created in Q4/2022: 6959
  • Number of tasks closed in Q4/2022: 5236
  • Number of different people who created tasks in Q4/2022: 918
  • Number of different people who closed tasks in Q4/2022: 440

Recent blog posts on the Tech Blog

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Read on https://techblog.wikimedia.org/ about:

  • Introducing Terraform support on Wikimedia Cloud VPS
  • HTTP/2 performance revisited
  • Web Perf Hero: Valentín Gutierrez
  • How we’re building our Kubernetes pipeline in GitLab
  • Perf Matters at Wikipedia in 2016

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Get involved!

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