Wikimedia Engineering/Report/2012/January

Major news in January include:
 * SOPA

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Recent events

 * SOPA


 * San Francisco hackathon (21–22 January 2012, San Francisco, California, USA) —

Upcoming events

 * Pune hackathon (10–12 February 2012, Pune, India) —


 * GLAMcamp DC (10–12 February 2012, Washington, D.C., USA) —

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.


 * Developers and engineers:
 * Senior Software Engineer Front-end
 * Interaction Designer
 * Systems Engineer (Data Analytics)
 * Software Developer (Back-end, Data Analytics)
 * Software Developer (Rich Text Editing, Features)
 * Software Developer (Front-end)
 * QA Lead
 * Software Developer (Mobile)
 * Software Security Engineer
 * Operations Engineer (Labs)


 * Management & Product:
 * Director of Features Engineering


 * Requests for proposals:
 * Executive Dashboard - Analytics — Help us improve and centralize the dashboard summarizing the most important data about the Wikimedia movement to understand overall community health.
 * Mobile UX — Help us redesign our mobile platform and apps as more and more visitors access Wikipedia and its sister sites via mobile devices.

Short news

 * Andrew Otto joined the Platform engineering team as Software Developer for Analytics ([//lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-January/057430.html announcement]).
 * Fabrice Florin joined the Strategic Product team as Product Manager for New Editor Engagement (announcement).
 * Andre Engels joined the Mobile team as data analyst contractor (announcement).

Site infrastructure

 * Data Centers —


 * Media Storage —


 * HTTPS —

Testing environment

 * Wikimedia Labs —

Backups and data archives

 * Data Dumps — A problem with the rsync to our mirror site was located and fixed.  Another organization agreed to mirror the dumps as well and we are waiting for their server to come on line.  Back issues of dumps from 2002 through 2006 were made available, for folks interested in historical data. New hardware haa arrived in our data center in D.C. and we'll be copying all dumps over to a server there as soon as it's ready. We're thinking about how to provide image dumps in some fashion, even if we don't keep local copies of the dumps or they are not run n a regular basis.  We also cleaned up the dumps documentation on wikitech and drafted this year's development plans. And finally, we have a contractor, Christian Aistleitner, who will be working on a test suite for dump generation. Yay!

Other news

 * Site issue January 2012

Mobile

 * Mobile Research —


 * Android Wikipedia App —


 * WikipediaZero —


 * GPS Storage/Retrieval —


 * Featured Article RSS —

Offline

 * Kiwix UX initiative —

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.