Wikimedia Engineering/Report/2012/September

Engineering metrics in September:
 * unique committers contributed patchsets of code to MediaWiki.
 * The total number of unreviewed commits went from about 360 to
 * About shell requests were processed.
 * About developers got access to Git and Wikimedia Labs.
 * Wikimedia Labs now hosts projects,  instances and  users; to date  instances have been created.

Major news in September include:
 * https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/09/06/language-teams-plan-translation-memory-uls/
 * https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/09/07/recovery-of-broken-gerrit-repositories/
 * https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/09/11/using-the-wiki-loves-monuments-app-as-a-travel-log/
 * https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/09/17/new-e-book-export-feature-enabled-on-wikipedia/
 * https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/09/18/server-decommissioning-donations-sept2012/
 * https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/09/25/page-curation-launch/
 * GSoC 2012
 * GSoC 2012

Work with us
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Technical Operations
Site infrastructure

Network Infrastructure

Fundraising Infrastructure

Object Store/Swift

Wikimedia Labs

Data Dumps

Mobile
We are preparing for another work sprint on the mobile interface! Some beta features will be graduated to the standard mobile view, such as the new navigation menu.

Preliminary support for sharper images on high-density displays (such as the iPhone 4/4S/5 and many Android phones) is being worked on; this will apply also to the desktop view on suitable tablets (iPad 3, Nexus 7, Kindle HD) and laptops (Retina MacBook Pro, Windows laptops with desktop zoom at 150% or 200%).

Offline
Kiwix

Wikidata

 * The Wikidata project is funded and executed by Wikimedia Deutschland.

The Wikidata team is working on the last parts of a first deployment and the code is currently being reviewed by WMF engineers. Anja Jentzsch has joined the team and focuses on quality and the deployment of Wikidata. On the coding side a lot has been done including work on edit conflicts and permissions and reworking the special page to create new items. In addition to that work on phase 2 of Wikidata (infoboxes) has started. This includes for example the ValueHandler extension which will be used for our data values. The team has also met with a group of database experts from different projects to get input for phase 2 and 3 from them.

In addition we started a page for bot discussions and coordination, published test coverage data, updated the demo system and attended a lot of events including WikiCon and Software Freedom Day and held another round of office hours. Oh and if you are interested in contributing to Wikidata there is now a new contribute page for you.

You can find more comprehensive weekly updates here and we now also have a Facebook and Google+ page!

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.