Wikimedia Engineering/Report/2014/March

Engineering metrics in March: Major news in March include:
 * 160 unique committers contributed patchsets of code to MediaWiki.
 * The total number of unresolved commits went from around 1450 to about 1315.
 * About 25 shell requests were processed.
 * https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/03/07/webfonts-making-wikimedia-projects-readable-for-everyone/
 * https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/03/25/seeing-through-the-eyes-of-new-technical-contributors/
 * https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/03/26/hovercards-now-available-as-a-beta-feature-on-all-wikimedia-wikis/
 * https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/03/27/typography-refresh/
 * https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/03/28/wikimedias-road-to-bugzilla-4-4/

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Technical Operations
Datacenter RFP

 Wikimedia Labs Labs metrics in March: (Stats are greatly inflated due to overlap between pmtpa and eqiad) Labs Ops have spent the month shepherding projects from the Tampa cloud to the Ashburn cloud. Dozens of volunteers contributed to the move, and all tools and projects have now been copied to or rebuilt in Ashburn. Some projects and tools are in a non-running state pending action on the part of their owners or admins.
 * Number of projects: 126
 * Number of instances: 678
 * Amount of RAM in use (in MBs): 1,967,104
 * Amount of allocated storage (in GBs): 24,245
 * Number of virtual CPUs in use: 977
 * Number of users: 2,901

Ashburn labs is running Openstack Havana, with NFS for shared storage.

ulsfo redeployment

eqiad data center capacity expansion

shutting down machines in pmtpa data center
 * During March, ops have been decommissioning and shutting down a lot of hosts in the old Tampa datacenter including all former appservers. The amount of energy consumed in the old datacenter has been greatly reduced. A few hosts are going to be migrated to another floor in the existing datacenter and physical data center work is coming up.

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.