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Quarterly report for Q4/2012

This is ShoutWiki’s quarterly report for the fourth and last quarter (Q4) of 2012, from 1 October to 31 December.

User and wiki statistics

Over this period, 387 wikis were created by 334 unique users.
1749 new users signed up on ShoutWiki.

Technical & operations

33 commits were made to our internal Subversion (SVN) source code repository.

One bug in our Bugzilla bug tracking system was marked as resolved during this period.

One new MediaWiki extension, called EmailCheck, was introduced during this quarter.

On behalf of the staff team,
Jack Phoenix
Head of the Customer Support Team

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Quarterly reports

Quarterly report for Q3/2012

This is ShoutWiki’s quarterly report for the third quarter (Q3) of 2012, from 1 July to 30 September.

User and wiki statistics

Over this period, 217 wikis were created by 182 unique users.
604 new users signed up on ShoutWiki.

Cook879 was promoted from intern to a full customer support staff member on 26 September 2012. Welcome!

Technical & operations

96 commits were made to our internal Subversion (SVN) source code repository.

19 bugs in our Bugzilla bug tracking system were marked as resolved during this period.

6 new MediaWiki extensions were introduced during this quarter:

  • Lock Down English Pages — an extension to prevent non-staff users from accidentally messing up the English interface messages on our Interface Messages Wiki (MediaWiki.org infopage)
  • Variables — an extension for doing complicated tricks with templates, available on request
  • Babel — allows users to show off their language skills via “Babel boxes” on their user pages; enabled globally (bug #178)
  • Piwik — logs statistics about visitors to our Piwik system
  • Semantic MediaWiki — a very complex extension for adding all kinds of semantic data about the wiki’s contents; available on request
  • Semantic Forms — allows users to add, edit and query data using forms; requires the Semantic MediaWiki extension and hence is available only on request

On behalf of the staff team,
Jack Phoenix
Head of the Customer Support Team