Wikimedia Engineering/Report/2011/November

Major news in November include:

Hover your mouse over the green question marks to see the description of a particular project.

Recent events

 * October 2011 Coding Challenge (20 October - 7 November, online) —


 * India hackathon (18–20 November, Mumbai, India) —


 * Brighton hackathon (19–20 November, Brighton, England) —

Upcoming events

 * San Francisco event (21-22 January 2012) —

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:
 * 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.


 * Management & Product:
 * Director of Features Engineering
 * Product Manager
 * Product Manager (Analytics)


 * Requests for proposals:
 * API Logging Analysis — Help us analyze the query logs of our API to better understand third party application usage of Wikimedia content and services.
 * Labs virtualization project — Help us build our Labs Virtualization Project for our community and volunteers, to support their effort to prototype, develop, test and deploy their tools and extensions.
 * XML Dumps — Help us improve the infrastructure used to build XML dumps of Wikipedia content, for backups and reuse by third parties.
 * 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

 * Benny Situ and Rob Moen joined the Features engineering team as Software Developers, to work on Editor Engagement features (announcement for Benny, announcement for Rob).

Site infrastructure

 * Data Centers —


 * Media Storage —


 * HTTPS —

Testing environment

 * Virtualization test cluster —

Backups and data archives

 * Data Dumps —

Editing tools

 * Visual editor —
 * Internationalization and localization tools —

Participation and editor retention

 * Article feedback —
 * LiquidThreads 3.0 —
 * Feedback Dashboard —

Multimedia Tools

 * UploadWizard —

MediaWiki infrastructure

 * ResourceLoader —

Media Labs

 * TimedMediaHandler —

Mobile

 * Mobile Research —


 * MobileFrontend —


 * Android Wikipedia App —

Fundraising support

 * 2011 Fundraiser —

Offline

 * Kiwix UX initiative —

MediaWiki Core

 * MediaWiki 1.18 —
 * Code review management —
 * Shell requests —
 * Continuous integration —
 * Git conversion —

Wikimedia analytics

 * Wikimedia Report Card 2.0 —

Technical Liaison; Developer Relations

 * Bug management —
 * Summer of Code 2011 —
 * Engineering project documentation —
 * Volunteer coordination and outreach —
 * MediaWiki architecture document —
 * Wikimedia blog maintenance —

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.