Wikimedia Engineering/Report/2012/May

 Engineering metrics in May:
 * 41 unique committers contributed code to MediaWiki.
 * The total number of unreviewed commits went from about 140 to 250.
 * About 34 shell requests were processed.
 * developers got developer access to Git and Wikimedia Labs, among which are volunteers.
 * Wikimedia Labs now hosts projects,  instances and  users.

Major news in May include:

Upcoming events

 * Berlin hackathon (1–3 June 2012, Berlin, Germany) —


 * Wikimania hackathon (10–11 July 2012, Washington, D.C., USA) —

Work with us
Are you looking to work for Wikimedia? We have a lot of hiring coming up, and we really love talking to active community members about these roles.



Site infrastructure

 * Servers —


 * Search —


 * Databases —


 * Caching —


 * Networking —


 * Media Storage —

Testing environment

 * Wikimedia Labs —

Backups and data archives

 * Data Dumps — We've been busy creating bundles of media in use per project and the first set of files is almost complete.  For each wiki there is be one or more files containing all media uploaded locally to the wiki, and one or more files containing all media used by the wiki but uploaded to Commons.  We've also been preparing for the media backend switch to Swift; since we won't be able to make copies of all media files in the usual way, some scripts were hacked together which will check the image and imagelinks tables and will retrieve and/or update media files via http as needed.  Your.org and Masaryk University mirrors officially came on line; know anyone else who can host dumps, media or pageview statistics?  Let us know!

Internationalization and Editor Engagement Experiments

 * Editor Engagement Experiments (E3) —

Wikidata

 * The Wikidata project is funded and executed by Wikimedia Deutschland.

Future
The engineering management team continues to update the Software deployments page weekly, providing up-to-date information on the upcoming deployments to Wikimedia sites, as well as the engineering roadmap, listing ongoing and future Wikimedia engineering efforts.