Wikimedia Engineering/Report/2013/December

Engineering metrics in December: Major news in December include:
 * unique committers contributed patchsets of code to MediaWiki.
 * The total number of unresolved commits went from around 1230 to about.
 * About shell requests were processed.

''Note: We're also providing a shorter, simpler and translatable version of this report that does not assume specialized technical knowledge.

Upcoming events
There are many opportunities for you to get involved and contribute to MediaWiki and technical activities to improve Wikimedia sites, both for coders and contributors with other talents.

For a more complete and up-to-date list, check out the Project:Calendar.

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.



Announcements

 * http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-December/073624.html
 * http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-December/073623.html
 * http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-December/073593.html

Technical Operations
Wikimedia Labs

Andrew did a lot of purging of empty projects and stale instances. After that, here are new, more accurate usage statistics for Labs:


 * Number of projects: 	140
 * Number of instances: 	403
 * Amount of RAM in use (in MBs): 	1,592,832
 * Amount of allocated storage (in GBs): 	21,525
 * Number of virtual CPUs in use: 	797
 * Number of users: 	2,425

Tool Labs saw a bump in usage as the winter holidays provided an opportunity for volunteers to migrate tools from the toolserver and work on new projects; there are now 531 tools managed by 435 users, ranging from simple database queries to elaborate editing adjuncts using the new OAuth infrastructure.

Work for the impending migration of Labs to the Ashburn data center is well on its way: hardware is set up, the new storage servers are configured, and a lot of fresh OpenStack puppet manifests are in progress.

Kiwix
The Kiwix project is funded and executed by Wikimedia CH.



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



Future

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