Wikimedia Engineering/Report/2013/September

Engineering metrics in September:
 * unique committers contributed patchsets of code to MediaWiki.
 * The total number of unresolved commits went from around 1080 to about.
 * About 36 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 September 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.



Announcements

 * Kartik Mistry joined the Language Engineering team as Software Engineer (announcement).
 * Sucheta Ghoshal joined the Language Engineering team as associate software engineer (announcement).
 * Kaity Hammerstein joined the User experience team as Associate UX Designer (announcement).
 * Aaron Halfaker joined the Analytics team as Research Analyst (announcement).
 * Oliver Keyes transitioned to the role of Product Analyst (announcement).
 * Dan Garry joined the Product development team as Associate Product Manager for Platform. (announcement).
 * Nick Wilson joined the Product development team as Community Liaison (announcement).

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.



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.