Wikimedia Platform Engineering

The Wikimedia Foundation General Engineering team is responsible for the MediaWiki core, managing work from volunteer developers, as well as for providing services that are used by multiple technology teams.

Responsibilities
Responsibilities for General Engineering include:
 * MediaWiki core:
 * Manage the MediaWiki release cycle
 * Ensure that MediaWiki core is meeting the evolving needs of the website
 * Make quality MediaWiki releases available for others outside of the Wikimedia Foundation
 * Documentation:
 * Develop clear documentation for MediaWiki so that new staff, volunteer developers and external users have a smooth ramp-up process to becoming MediaWiki developers
 * Develop and document a clear set of APIs so that external developers can create applications that easily interface with MediaWiki
 * Quality Assurance:
 * Ensure that all new code that is released meets quality standards
 * Triage, manage and resolve all bug reports
 * Analytics:
 * Implement and manage Web analytics tool to provide data for other foundation departments and the movement as a whole
 * Monitor and analyze key metrics on Wikimedia Foundation websites
 * Volunteer liaison:
 * Attract and support volunteer developers so that they can become an even more powerful force in driving improvement on the website
 * Manage volunteer-developed extensions and widgets

Team
The General Engineering group is managed by Rob Lanphier.

Analytics

 * Erik Zachte
 * Nimish Gautam

Development Community

 * Guillaume Paumier
 * Mark Hershberger
 * Sumana Harihareswara
 * Siebrand Mazeland (part-time support for TranslateWiki.net)

MediaWiki Core

 * Tim Starling (lead)
 * Chad Horohoe
 * Sam Reed
 * Priyanka Dhanda

MediaWiki.next

 * Brion Vibber

MediaWiki Core
Recently completed:
 * MediaWiki 1.16.5 release
 * MediaWiki 1.17 beta
 * MW 1.18 branch

The following represents parallel tracks of development time:

Possible future projects (AFTER 1.18 deploy & probably after release):
 * Configuration management
 * Template profiling
 * Git migration
 * Continuous external storage recompression

Analytics

 * Wikimedia Report Card 2011 - Erik Zachte, Erik Moeller, and Nimish Gautam are working on a new version of the report card.

Technical Liaison; Developer Relations
a.k.a. "TL;DR"