Wikimedia Engineering

Wikimedia engineering refers to the engineering and product development staff employed by the Wikimedia Foundation. Its mission is to build, improve and maintain the technical infrastructure of Wikimedia projects (software and hardware), by supporting and complementing volunteer efforts.

 News
 * Wikimania hackathon (10-11 July 2012, Washington, DC, USA) — Collaborative tutorials and development, focusing on accessibility, Gadgets, and other Wikimedia technology interests. Register now.
 * Activity report — What Wikimedia engineers have been up to recently (updated monthly).
 * Roadmap — What Wikimedia engineers are and will be working on (updated weekly).
 * Wikipedia Engineering Meetup (15 August 2012, San Francisco, CA)

 Get involved!
 * How to contribute
 * Tell us if you run into a problem
 * Become a MediaWiki developer
 * Test our mobile site, or build mobile apps
 * Chat with us
 * Figure out ways to encourage new Wikimedia editors
 * Help to update the engineering project documentation

Are you looking to work for Wikimedia? We're also hiring!

Features engineering
The Wikimedia Foundation Features Engineering team is responsible for developing new features for MediaWiki.

Platform engineering
The Wikimedia Foundation Platform 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.

Internationalization (Language Engineering)
This team will be responsible for Internationalization and "Labs" style projects.

Operations
The Operations team is responsible for the technical infrastructure of Wikimedia sites: this includes the data centers, servers and network.

They document most of their work on the wikitech wiki.

Outreach Program for Women
From January to April 2013, the WMF will have 6 interns in the context of the Outreach Program for Women.



Tools
New to project pages? Have a question about how things work? Read the how-to guide.