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+.. post:: Jan 12, 2023
+   :tags: stats, year in review, newsletter
+   :author: Eric Holscher
+
+Write the Docs Community Update - January 2023
+===============================================
+
+Hey folks, Eric Holscher here, one of the co-founders of Write the Docs.
+I'm here with our traditional January community update.
+
+We're excited about a lot of things this year,
+but most of all we're excited to see you all again in-person.
+
+Our 2023 conferences
+--------------------
+
+Thanks to everyone who attended our virtual events in 2022.
+We had wonderful attendance in all three of our online events, nominally located in Portland, Prague, and Australia.
+We continue to appreciate the warmth and spirit that you bring to our virtual events,
+and look forward to more of it in 2023.
+
+We are excited this year for a partial return to in-person events,
+and a new experiment for our virtual event:
+
+* `Portland <https://www.writethedocs.org/conf/portland/2023/>`_ will be in-person on **May 7-9**.
+* `Atlantic <https://www.writethedocs.org/conf/atlantic/2023/>`_ will be a virtual event, spanning the US and European timezones, on **September 10-12**.
+
+We are now accepting `talk proposals <https://www.writethedocs.org/conf/portland/2023/cfp/>`_ and selling tickets for our Portland conference.
+**Submit your talk proposals by February 6th**,
+If you need feedback or help with your talk proposal,
+we will be having a virtual talk prep meetup later this month.
+The meetup will be announced soon, so follow that group or the ``#meetups`` channel in Slack for updates.
+
+We hope that you'll work with us to make all of our events unique again this year by submitting talks and showing up in person or virtually with your usual enthusiasm and warmth.
+
+Community teams restructuring
+-----------------------------
+
+There are some changes coming to our teams this year,
+specifically the `Core Operations (CoreOps) team <https://www.writethedocs.org/team/#core-operations-coreops>`_ and new `Community board <https://www.writethedocs.org/team/#community-board>`_.
+
+The *CoreOps team* is a small group of us that have been working to make Write the Docs happen for a long time.
+Historically this group has included our Portland & Prague conference chairs,
+along with a couple other folks heavily involved in the overall operation of Write the Docs, such as website infrastructure and community support.
+It's responsible for the tasks involved in keeping Write the Docs a viable organization.
+
+The major change happening there is that Mikey Ariel will be stepping down as the Prague conference chair and moving to a new role focused on global and non-conference community development.
+Sasha Romijn will be filling the role of conference chair for our Atlantic conference.
+The other members of the CoreOps team, myself & Samuel Wright, will continue with our current roles.
+
+The *Community board* is new, and tasked with the overall direction of the community.
+The members are the team leads of each of the Write the Docs team,
+as well as the conference chairs of our various conferences.
+Our goal is to have meetings quarterly where we all share the status of what we're working on,
+and request any help that we could use in keeping the various teams functioning effectively.
+We're hoping that having more defined communication will help the community teams (mostly run by volunteers) to feel more connected and supported in the work we're all doing.
+
+You can see the full set of changes in `WEP 4 <https://github.com/writethedocs/weps/blob/main/accepted/WEP0004-community-board.rst>`_.
+
+Other community updates
+-----------------------
+
+We have shared our high-level community stats for the past 5 years,
+and will continue to do it each year going forward.
+You can view our 2022 stats on our blog at :doc:`/blog/write-the-docs-2022-stats`.
+
+Submissions for our fourth annual salary survey have closed and we're eagerly poring over the numbers.
+Expect the full report, analyzing salary information from 524 documentarians in 42 countries, in the first quarter of this year.
+
+From our sponsor
+----------------
+
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+
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+    </table>
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+*Interested in sponsoring the newsletter? Take a look at our* `sponsorship prospectus </sponsorship/newsletter/>`__.
+
+Have a great year
+-----------------
+
+Thanks again for being part of our journey.
+
+The Write the Docs team
diff --git a/docs/blog/write-the-docs-2022-stats.rst b/docs/blog/write-the-docs-2022-stats.rst
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+.. post:: Jan 13, 2023
+   :tags: stats, year in review
+   :author: Eric Holscher
+
+Write the Docs 2022 Stats
+=========================
+
+This year we have done a :doc:`/blog/2023-january-update` post along with our stats, which has more context and information about where we're headed in 2023.
+
+Unfortunately our Podcast has been in hiatus for a while with no new episodes in 2022,
+so we have removed it from the stats post.
+
+2022 Stats
+----------
+
+We have shared our high-level community stats since 2016,
+and will continue to do it each year going forward.
+
+You can read our previous posts from 2016_, 2017_, 2018_, 2019_, 2020_, _2021_.
+
+.. _2021: https://www.writethedocs.org/blog/write-the-docs-2021-stats/
+.. _2020: https://www.writethedocs.org/blog/write-the-docs-2020-stats/
+.. _2019: https://www.writethedocs.org/blog/write-the-docs-2019-stats/
+.. _2018: https://www.writethedocs.org/blog/write-the-docs-2018-stats/
+.. _2017: https://www.writethedocs.org/blog/write-the-docs-2017-stats/
+.. _2016: https://www.writethedocs.org/blog/write-the-docs-2016-year-in-review/
+
+Conferences
+~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* 600 attendees in Portland (down from 650)
+* 225 attendees in Prague (down from 330)
+* 100 attendees in Australia (no conference in 2022)
+
+We were excited to see continued success of the virtual conferences,
+but it definitely felt like more people are slowly yearning to return to in-person.
+The world has also had another large shock with the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
+
+Slack network
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* 18,339 :doc:`members </slack>` (up from 15,012)
+
+Newsletter subscribers
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* 10,558 :doc:`subscribers </newsletter>` (up from 9,237)
+
+This is across all our various mailing lists (conference-specific and community newsletter).
+
+Meetups
+~~~~~~~
+
+* Over 10,000 :doc:`members </meetups/index>` (too many to count)
+
+Last year we stopped counting total meetups because we launched Quorum meetups that cover a larger geographic area.
+We're excited to see a return to in-person meetups,
+with the easing of COVID concerns in various areas where we have meetups.
+
+Website
+~~~~~~~
+
+* 270,000 sessions (up from 250,000)
+* 440,000 page views (up from 395,000)
+
+Our website traffic is generally pretty stable,
+but we do see spikes around our conferences.
+This number comes from Google Analytics which many users are blocking,
+so the numbers are likely much higher in terms of total traffic.
+
+GitHub
+~~~~~~
+
+* 745 commits_ to our repository (down from 1,193)
+* 26 people_ who contributed to our repository (down from 30)
+
+.. commits: git rev-list --count --all --after="2022-01-01" --before="2023-01-01"
+.. _commits: https://github.com/writethedocs/www/commits/master
+.. _people: https://github.com/writethedocs/www/graphs/contributors?from=2022-01-01&to=2023-01-01&type=c
+
+Thanks
+------
+
+Thanks again for being part of our journey,
+
+The Write the Docs team