Wikimedia Apps/Team

The mobile app team focuses on building custom Android and iOS applications for the Wikimedia Foundation

This page and its subpages are intended to document the team, its various roles/responsibilities, and generally be a repository of articles of team documentation.



Join us at the Wikimedia Hackathon
The Wikimedia Apps team will participate in the Wikimedia Hackathon 2015 in Lyon, France 23-25 May. Join us.

Who's on the team

 * Kristen Lans - Scrum Master
 * Max Binder - Scrum Master
 * Vibha Bamba - User Experience Designer
 * Katy Hammerstein - User Experience Designer
 * Sherah Smith - User Experience Designer
 * Elena Tonkovidova - Quality Assurance Analyst

iOS App

 * Monte Hurd - Engineer
 * Brian Gerstle - Tech lead / Engineer
 * Corey Floyd - Product Owner / Engineer

Android App

 * Bernd Sitzmann - Tech lead / Engineer
 * Dmitry Brant - Product Owner / Engineer
 * Michael Holloway - Engineer
 * Stephen Niedzielski - Engineer

Team documentation

 * Development Cycle
 * Release process and criteria
 * Android workboard | iOS workboard
 * Team Velocity
 * Team norms
 * iOS Documentation
 * Bug Reporting
 * Retrospectives
 * Phabetiquette


 * mobile-l mailing list
 * Freenode webchat on the #wikimedia-mobile channel


 * Why do we make apps?


 * Wikimedia Apps/imported/Q3_pre_planning_notes
 * Android app hacking
 * RESTBase services for apps