Wikimedia Engineering/Report/2014/November

Major news in November include:
 * the release of the second version of the Content Translation tool, which heavily relies on Apertium for machine translation;
 * updates to MediaWiki's internationalization based on new CLDR data;
 * the move from Bugzilla to Phabricator as the new collaboration platform for the Wikimedia technical community.

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.

* Senior Software Engineer - Services
 * Software Engineer - Maps & Geo - Mobile
 * Software Engineer - Mobile - iOS
 * Release Engineer
 * Technical Writer
 * Full Stack Developer - Analytics
 * Research Analyst
 * Agile Coach/ScrumMaster - Team Practices Group
 * Senior Technical Product Manager
 * Community Liaison
 * Community Liaison (PT Contract)
 * Operations Security Engineer
 * UX Senior Designer
 * UX Senior Design Researcher
 * UX Visual Design Fellowship
 * Mobile Partnerships Regional Manager

Announcements

 * Andrew Garret joined the Wikimedia Foundation as a full time Software Engineer (announcement).
 * Yuvi Panda joined the Wikimedia Technical Operations team (announcement).
 * Tracy Beasley joined the Design Research Team as Participant Recruiter (announcement).
 * James Douglas joined the Platform engineering team as part of the Services group (announcement).
 * Stas Malyshev joined the Platform engineering team as part of the MediaWiki Core group (announcement).

Technical Operations
Dallas data center

Tampa data center

Labs metrics in November: Tool metrics:
 * Number of projects: 154
 * Number of instances: 440
 * Amount of RAM in use (in MBs): 2,131,456
 * Amount of allocated storage (in GBs): 21,555
 * Number of virtual CPUs in use: 1,047
 * Number of users: 4,426
 * Number of tools: 976
 * Number of tool maintainers: 543

 Wikimedia Labs
 * Yuvi has officially joined the labs team.
 * We updated the labs OpenStack install from version 'Havana' to version 'Icehouse'.
 * Ldap (used for sign-in on many WMF services) is now de-coupled from the Labs hardware. Ldap has a dedicated server in each of eqiad and codfw.
 * Hardware to expand Labs VM capacity in eqiad is now racked. Work on the OS and OpenStack install is ongoing.
 * Trusty instances can now pull ssh keys directly from ldap, so logins (on Trusty instances) will still work in case of shared-storage outage
 * We now have redirects from tool server to toollabs. This is one of the last steps in sunsetting the tool server.
 * Marc added a few experimental Trusty nodes to toollabs.

Front-end
Front-end libraries standardization

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.