Wikimedia Engineering/Report/2011/July

Major news this month include:

Recent events

 * OSCON (July 25-29, Portland, Oregon, USA) —

Upcoming events

 * Wikimania (August 2-7, Haifa, Israel) —


 * Check out the Software deployments page on the wikitech wiki for up-to-date information on the upcoming deployments to Wikimedia sites.

Job openings
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. The following positions have opened this month:

New RfP:
 * RFP/Article Feedback Feature

Open requests for proposals: The following positions are still open: Product Manager (Analytics), QA Lead, Operations Engineer (Networking), Director of Features Engineering), Software Developer (Features), Systems Engineer (Data Analytics), Operations Engineer, Networking Contractor (Amsterdam), Software Developer (Rich Text Editing, Features), Product Manager (Features), Software Developer (Front-end) and Software Developer (Back-end).
 * Internationalization and Localization Outreach
 * Internationalization and Localization Feature Development

Short news

 * Jeff Green, "Special ops" http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2011-June/054122.html, foundation:Job openings/Operations Engineer - Special Projects
 * Ian Baker, http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2011-July/054180.html, Software Developer (Features)
 * Code maintenance engineer Priyanka Dhanda left the Wikimedia Foundation in July.

Site infrastructure

 * Virginia Data Center —


 * Media Storage —


 * HTTPS & IPv6 —

Testing environment

 * Virtualization test cluster —

Backups and data archives

 * Data Dumps —


 * Backups —

Editing tools

 * Visual editor —


 * FlaggedRevs —


 * Non-Roman character set localization —

Content Quality and Editorial Tools

 * Article feedback —

Participation and editor retention

 * WikiLove —


 * MoodBar —


 * StructuredProfile —


 * LiquidThreads 3.0 —

Multimedia Tools

 * UploadWizard —

MediaWiki infrastructure

 * ResourceLoader —

Wikimedia Labs

 * Media projects —


 * Parser —

Mobile

 * Mobile Research —


 * Mobile site rewrite —

Fundraising support

 * 2011 Fundraiser —

Offline

 * Wikipedia version tools —


 * Collections —


 * Kiwix UX initiative —

MediaWiki Core

 * MediaWiki 1.18 —
 * http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/54637


 * Code review management —
 * Code review management/July 2011 training, http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2011-July/054278.html


 * Heterogeneous deployment —


 * HipHop deployment —


 * Disk-backed object cache —
 * http://noc.wikimedia.org/cgi-bin/pcache-hit-rate.py?period=14d


 * Academic publications authentication proxy —


 * API maintenance —


 * Shell requests —


 * Projects on hold —

Wikimedia analytics

 * Wikimedia Report Card 2.0 —

Technical Liaison; Developer Relations

 * Bug management —


 * Summer of Code 2011 —


 * Engineering project documentation —


 * Volunteer coordination and outreach —
 * including Commit access