Wikimedia Engineering/Report/2014/April

Engineering metrics in April: Major news in April include:
 * unique committers contributed patchsets of code to MediaWiki.
 * The total number of unresolved commits went from around 1315 to about.
 * About shell requests were processed.
 * the change of format of MediaWiki localization files from PHP to JSON, and the associated modernization of the LocalisationUpdate extension;
 * the move of Wikimedia Labs to a new data center;
 * the “Heartbleed” security vulnerability and how the Wikimedia Foundation's team responded to it;
 * an explanation of how the Mobile team uses Trello to plan their development sprints;
 * a project report on a grant to create "gadgets" for VisualEditor.

''Note: We're also providing a shorter, simpler and translatable version of this report that does not assume specialized technical knowledge.

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Announcements

 * Giuseppe Lavagetto joined the Operations team as Operations Engineer (announcement).
 * Aaron Schulz is now Senior Performance Engineer (announcement).
 * Dmitry Brant joined the the Mobile App Team as Software Developer (announcement).
 * Danny Horn joined the Product Development team as Product Manager (announcement).

Technical Operations
Datacenter RFP

 Wikimedia Labs Labs metrics in April:
 * Number of projects:
 * Number of instances:
 * Amount of RAM in use (in MBs):
 * Amount of allocated storage (in GBs):
 * Number of virtual CPUs in use:
 * Number of users:

Tampa data center

Mobile
Wikipedia Zero (partnerships)



Kiwix
The Kiwix project is funded and executed by Wikimedia CH.



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



Future

 * The engineering management team continues to update the Deployments page weekly, providing up-to-date information on the upcoming deployments to Wikimedia sites, as well as the annual goals, listing ongoing and future Wikimedia engineering efforts.