Wikimedia Platform Engineering

Main projects

 * HHVM
 * Admin tools development
 * Search
 * SUL finalisation
 * Library infrastructure for MediaWiki
 * Editing performance
 * Wikibase/Indexing

Continuous responsibilities

 * Shell requests
 * Security auditing and response

Planned or backburner projects

 * API/maintenance
 * Replicated session handling
 * App-level monitoring
 * AcademicAccess
 * Configuration management
 * Template profiling
 * Continuous external storage recompression
 * Database sharding
 * Code review management
 * API/REST proposal
 * Password storage update
 * Site performance and architecture
 * Auth systems
 * Deployment tooling

Recently completed projects

 * Disk-backed object cache
 * Heterogeneous deployment
 * MediaWiki 1.18/Roadmap
 * MediaWiki 1.19/Roadmap
 * MediaWiki 1.20/Roadmap
 * MediaWiki 1.21/Roadmap
 * Wikivoyage migration
 * VipsScaler
 * Lua scripting
 * Git/Conversion
 * MediaWiki 1.22/Roadmap
 * MediaWiki 1.23/Roadmap

Release Engineering
]]=== Responsibilities === The Release Engineering team is responsible for the tooling and resources that help MediaWiki developers write better code and get that code out for our users faster.

Current activities

 * Quality Assurance
 * Quality Assurance/Browser testing

Planned or backburner projects

 * Wikimedia Release Engineering Team
 * Beta cluster
 * Continuous integration

Responsibilities
The Multimedia team is responsible for features that provide a richer experience and support more media contributions on Wikipedia, Commons, and MediaWiki sites.

We develop features to:
 * improve the viewing experience for our readers
 * develop feedback and curation tools
 * help editors add media files to articles.

We are also upgrading our current infrastructure to:
 * improve the upload pipeline
 * implement structured data
 * better integrate multimedia across all our sites.

Overview

 * Multimedia

Main projects
At this time, our two main projects are:
 * Media Viewer, an immersive multimedia browser; and
 * UploadWizard, an incremental upgrade and code refactoring of our contribution pipeline.

Next projects
Here is our Multimedia Vision for 2016, to give you a sense of what we are working on this year. In coming months, we will be working on a variety of projects to help our users view, contribute, curate and use images, sound and video files. We believe that audio-visual media offer a unique opportunity to engage a wide range of users to participate productively in our collective work.


 * UploadWizard
 * Multimedia/Structured Data

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. * Bug management
 * Phabricator/Migration
 * Outreach programs
 * Events/Coordination
 * Documentation/Improvement

Planned or backburner projects

 * Architecture process

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