Wikimedia Engineering/Report/2014/January

Engineering metrics in January: Major news in January include:
 * unique committers contributed patchsets of code to MediaWiki.
 * The total number of unresolved commits went from around 1386 to about.
 * About shell requests were processed.
 * the transition of our search engines on Wikimedia sites to ElasticSearch;
 * a presentation of how the Tech newsletter works, including a historical perspective;
 * an invitation to comment on the 2-year vision of the multimedia engineering team;
 * a request for comments on whether the MP4 video format should be supported on Wikimedia sites.

''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

 * Shahyar Ghobadpour
 * David Chan
 * Gilles Dubuc
 * Charles Salvia
 * Sam Smith
 * http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/design/2014-January/001441.html

Technical Operations
Datacenter RFP

Wikimedia Labs

Offline
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.