Wikimedia Engineering/Report/2014/December

Major news in December include:

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.

* Director of Engineering
 * Senior Software Engineer - Services
 * Software Engineer - Mobile - Android
 * Software Engineer - Wikipedia Zero
 * Software Engineer - Flow (Front-end)
 * Release Engineer
 * Application Security Engineer
 * Full Stack Developer - Analytics
 * Agile Coach/ScrumMaster - Team Practices Group
 * Senior Technical Product Manager
 * Community Liaison
 * Community Liaison (PT Contract)
 * Operations Security Engineer
 * UX Senior Designer
 * UX Senior Design Researcher
 * UX Visual Design Fellowship
 * Mobile Partnerships Regional Manager

Technical Operations
Dallas data center

Tampa data center

Labs metrics in December: Tool metrics:
 * Number of projects: 155
 * Number of instances: 437
 * Amount of RAM in use (in MBs): 2,147,840
 * Amount of allocated storage (in GBs): 21,745
 * Number of virtual CPUs in use: 1,059
 * Number of users: 4,599
 * Number of tools: 1002
 * Number of tool maintainers: 559

 Wikimedia Labs
 * We've added two new large servers to the Labs virtualization cluster in eqiad. This will increases our capacity by about 40%; Andrew is now in the process of rebalancing load among servers and allocating new resources to projects that need them.
 * Yuvi has made some progress with an intermittent DNS issue. With luck this will be more stable now.
 * The toolserver is now officially decommissioned.

Front-end
Front-end libraries standardization

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.