Wikimedia Engineering/Report/2012/November

Engineering metrics in November:
 * unique committers contributed patchsets of code to MediaWiki.
 * The total number of unresolved commits went from about 440 to.
 * About shell requests were processed.
 * About developers got access to Git and Wikimedia Labs.
 * Wikimedia Labs now hosts projects,  users; to date  instances have been created.

Major news in November include:

''Note: As of last month, we're proposing a shorter and simpler version of this report for less technically savvy readers.

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Technical Operations
Site Infrastructure

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Wikimedia Labs

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

The repo side of Wikidata has been launched on http://www.wikidata.org. It contains the results of phase 1 (language links) and has already attracted a community to maintain the wiki. Meanwhile, the Wikidata team has continued work on Phase 2 of Wikidata (Infoboxes) to add statements with values to the items in the Wikidata repo. The team improved the propagation of changes from the repo to the client and the messaging in Recent Changes. There is a constant exchange with WMF about the upcoming deployment cycle. Feedback and questions are welcome on the mailing list and on meta.

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.