Wikimedia Engineering/Report/2013/April

Engineering metrics in April:
 * unique committers contributed patchsets of code to MediaWiki.
 * The total number of unresolved commits went from about to.
 * About shell requests were processed.
 * Wikimedia Labs now hosts projects and  users; to date  instances have been created.

Major news in April include:

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

Upcoming events
There are many opportunities for you to get involved and contribute to MediaWiki and technical activities to improve Wikimedia sites, both for coders and contributors with other talents.

For a more complete and up-to-date list, check out the Project:Calendar.

Work with us
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.



Announcements

 * Monte Hurd, Software Engineer in the Mobile group (announcement).
 * Brandon Black, Site Reliability Engineer in the Operations group (announcement).

Technical Operations
Site infrastructure

Fundraising
 * Deployed public reporting site http://frdata.wikimedia.org (samarium). Upgraded payments- and fundraising-wiki to mediawiki 1.22. Upgraded civicrm and drupal. Migrated banner impression log pipeline to eqiad.

Data Dumps
 * The new tools for import of partial or full content into a new wiki have been released . A step by step walkthrough of their use has been added to the documentation for users of the dumps on Meta.
 * True incremental dumps are now a GSOC proposal; if you know anyone interested, please nudge them to submit an application.
 * The logging table XML dump on Wikidata was taking days to run, due in part to the high volume of edits there, much more than even the English Wikipedia. Most of those edits wind up being recorded as autopatrol in the log, making it already about half the size of the logging table for the English Wikipedia.  Breaking up the database query into smaller batches works around the issue.

Wikimedia Labs

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 engineering roadmap, listing ongoing and future Wikimedia engineering efforts.