Wikimedia Engineering/Report/2012/July

 Engineering metrics in June TO FIX:
 * 92 unique committers contributed 1401 patchsets of code to MediaWiki.
 * The total number of unreviewed commits went from about 250 to about 320.
 * About 53 shell requests were processed.
 * 45 developers got developer access to Git and Wikimedia Labs.
 * Wikimedia Labs now hosts 100 projects, 182 instances and 468 users.
 * The Wikipedia Android app has now been downloaded over 4,000,000 times and retains a rating of 4.5/5.
 * 4 Wikimedia projects are now mobile default: Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikinews & Wikisource.

Major news in June include:

Recent events
Pre-Wikimania hackathon (10–11 July 2012, Washington, D.C., USA)
 * Open source teaching nonprofit OpenHatch will be aiding in organizing and running this two-day event, with Katie Filbert, Gregory Varnum, and Sumana Harihareswara. Experienced Wikimedia technologists will collaborate on their own projects, while interested new developers will be able to learn introductory MediaWiki development. Accessibility will be one of the event themes.  The event is free to attend even for those not attending Wikimania itself.

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.



Site infrastructure
Data Centers

Object Store/Swift

Testing environment
Wikimedia Labs

Backups and data archives
Data Dumps

Internationalization and Editor Engagement Experiments


Editor engagement experiments:

Wikidata

 * The Wikidata project is funded and executed by Wikimedia Deutschland.

Future
The engineering management team continues to update the Software 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.