Wikimedia Engineering

< general introduction, team, groups >

News


 * India hackathon (18–20 November, Mumbai, India) — Coding event focusing on language, mobile and offline support for MediaWiki content. Request an invitation now.
 * Brighton hackathon (19–20 November, Brighton, England) — General MediaWiki coding event. Register now.
 * Activity report — What Wikimedia engineers have been up to recently (updated monthly).
 * Roadmap — What Wikimedia engineers are and will be working on (updated weekly).

 Get involved!


 * Where to start? (wiki version of volunteer leaflet)
 * Become a MediaWiki developer

Are you looking to work for Wikimedia? We're also hiring!

Features engineering
The Wikimedia Foundation Features Engineering team is responsible for developing new features for MediaWiki.

Platform engineering
The Wikimedia Foundation Platform Engineering team is responsible for the MediaWiki core, managing work from volunteer developers, as well as for providing services that are used by multiple technology teams.

Operations
The Operations team is responsible for the technical infrastructure of Wikimedia sites: this includes the data centers, servers and network.

They document their work on the wikitech wiki.

Mobile

 * Mobile Research — A research project to help determine our Mobile strategy.
 * Android Wikipedia App — An official Wikipedia app for Android devices

Offline

 * Kiwix UX initiative — Improvement of the user experience of the Kiwix app to access offline Wikimedia content.