Wikimedia Engineering/Report/2013/July

Engineering metrics in July:
 * unique committers contributed patchsets of code to MediaWiki.
 * The total number of unresolved commits went from around 960 to about.
 * About shell requests were processed.
 * Wikimedia Labs now hosts projects and  users; to date  instances have been created.
 * The tools project in Labs now hosts tools and  members.

Major news in July include:

''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.

Technical Operations
Site infrastructure

Data Dumps

Wikimedia Labs

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



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


 * In July Wikidata was deployed to all language Wikivoyage sites to manage their language links. Since the first deployment of Phase1 to Wikipedia about 240 million interwikilinks (5GB text) have been removed from articles (2012 vs 2013 analysis). The continued Roadmap for Wikidata Development was updated. Coveralls.io support has been added to most of our components.


 * In other news the AAAI Feigenbaum Prize for Watson was donated to the Wikimedia Foundation by IBM research to support work, especially on Wikidata.


 * Denny Vrandečić explains why Wikidata items are identified by a Q.

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 engineering roadmap, listing ongoing and future Wikimedia engineering efforts. Annual goals for the 2013–2014 fiscal year are currently being drafted.