Currently we have no way to map tech contributors to their geographical locations. This is useful to know where in the World there is a higher density of contributors. This is also potentially useful for contributors to find who is nearby.
Without this data we can't assess properly who contributes code:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_metrics#Who_contributes_code
So far we have published a form to allow contributors to introduce their data:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1RFUa2zBAOolw78W-ozJPoYlR2lYbrAOYvOZYgjaAYQg/viewform
What needs to be done is to integrate that data at http://korma.wmflabs.org and
document the process to update the data.
Not in the scope of this report: come up with a way to allow contributors to
manage this data directly through their user profiles.
Not in the current scope either: we are starting with countries but it would be good to think of a more precise way to define locations. Contributors of Vancouver (Canada) and Seattle (USA) can meet easily, but currently they will be separate and grouped together with contributors of e.g. Montréal (Canada) and New York (USA), thousands of miles away.
Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53489
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58585