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Review projects listed on mw:New_Developers (2023)
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In Q2-Q3 of 2022, Dev Advocacy conducted a review of projects listed on the new developer's page - user & developer documentation, recommended tasks for newcomers, ensure the project meets the criteria of a featured project: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_Developers/Featured_Projects. This involved contacting maintainers via email, talk pages etc. to learn about the current state of the project and as part of the process, a few projects such as ORES, Huggle, WikipediaLibrary were removed and a couple of new projects were added: Scribe, VideoCutTool. Also made a call for projects on the mailing lists - both internal and WMF.

This task is about organizing a similar review a year from now. Updating the task accordingly.

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Sep 1 2023, 7:00 AM

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srishakatux created this task.Jul 5 2022, 7:58 PM
Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptJul 5 2022, 7:58 PM
srishakatux set Due Date to Oct 1 2023, 7:00 AM.Jul 5 2022, 7:59 PM
srishakatux changed Due Date from Oct 1 2023, 7:00 AM to Jul 1 2023, 7:00 AM.
srishakatux mentioned this in T274236: Have a process to regularly review projects listed on mw:New_Developers.
Aklapper awarded a token.Jul 5 2022, 8:19 PM
Aklapper moved this task from To triage to Backlog on the Developer-Advocacy board.Jul 14 2022, 3:33 PM
TBurmeister mentioned this in T136866: Improve the per-programming-language listings for our tools.Sep 21 2022, 6:50 PM
TBurmeister mentioned this in T321844: Do outreach to grow the list of new- and volunteer-contributor-friendly projects.Oct 27 2022, 5:13 PM
Aklapper moved this task from Backlog to Apr-Jun 2023 on the Developer-Advocacy board.Apr 12 2023, 2:32 PM
Aklapper edited projects, added Developer-Advocacy (Apr-Jun 2023); removed Developer-Advocacy.
srishakatux moved this task from Apr-Jun 2023 to Jul-Sep 2023 on the Developer-Advocacy board.Apr 12 2023, 4:56 PM
srishakatux edited projects, added Developer-Advocacy (Jul-Sep 2023); removed Developer-Advocacy (Apr-Jun 2023).
Aklapper changed Due Date from Jul 1 2023, 7:00 AM to Sep 1 2023, 7:00 AM.Apr 12 2023, 4:57 PM
Aklapper triaged this task as Low priority.May 10 2023, 1:05 PM
Aklapper added a parent task: T321844: Do outreach to grow the list of new- and volunteer-contributor-friendly projects.Jun 29 2023, 7:53 AM
srishakatux closed this task as Declined.Aug 3 2023, 12:11 AM

As we removed the information about the review process/ developer advocacy team mention from the New Developers guide recently, I'm declining this task in the hope that folks will read the criteria and only then add their project to the guide.

Aklapper added a comment.Aug 3 2023, 9:39 AM

...which of course only solves half of the topic (adding new projects). It does not solve the other half (removing projects). But yeah, rightfully declining, as Developer-Advocacy got dissolved without a full concept in place which tasks to be handled by whom now ("change management").

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