Translations:Wikimedia Engineering/Report/2013/March/summary/24/en

Other useful engineering news

 * Lua scripting has launched on all WMF wikis, making templates faster and making pages more flexible. You can read that post to understand what to do on your wiki to take advantage of this, and you can also read about the implications for Wikimedia's future.
 * We redesigned the Translate interface and made other progress on translation and language-related tools.
 * We have fresh, friendly instructions on reporting a technical problem and invite you to help prioritize problems to fix.
 * Our designers are collaborating with the Noun Project towards creating an "Encyclopedia Collection" of free icons.
 * Our Operations group (the systems administrators who keep our servers running) has started a twice-monthly meeting with other engineering teams, to keep communication flowing about requirements and possible upcoming problems or server needs.
 * The User Metrics API launched; it's a service that allows researchers to perform cohort analysis on various data sets, making it easier to measure the effects of programs and platform experiments among discrete sets of users. The Analytics group, which works on software to make statistics about Wikimedia available, is currently working on improving the web-based user interface, to make it available for use outside of Wikimedia Foundation staff in the coming months.