Wikimedia 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. The Platform Engineering group is managed by Rob Lanphier. It is part of the Wikimedia Foundation's engineering department.

See also a series of articles presenting the Platform engineering group:
 * What is “Platform Engineering”?
 * Data analytics at Wikimedia Foundation
 * Technical Liaison; Developer Relations (TL;DR) (former name of the "Engineering community team")
 * The MediaWiki Core group
 * Meet the Analytics Team
 * Introducing the Multimedia team

Main projects

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Continuous responsibilities

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Planned or backburner projects

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Recently completed projects

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Responsibilities

 * Ensure that all new code that is released meets quality standards
 * Triage, manage and resolve all bug reports

Current activities

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Responsibilities

 * Improve MediaWiki's and Wikimedia's support for audio, video, image, and other media files

Main projects

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Engineering Community Team
For more information, see Engineering Community Team.

Responsibilities

 * Attract and support volunteer technologists so that they can become an even more powerful force in driving improvement on the website
 * Help nurture volunteer-developed extensions and widgets
 * Provide communications support for all groups in the engineering department
 * Develop clear documentation for MediaWiki so that new staff, volunteer developers and external users have a smooth ramp-up process to becoming MediaWiki developers

Current activities
See also Engineering Community team meetings.


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