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 -- deb tankersley (she/her) program manager, engineering Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
