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.

 Stay informed
 * Wikimedia Engineering report — Updated monthly.
 * Wikimedia Engineering roadmap — Updated weekly.
 * Wikimedia Tech News — Updated weekly and delivered to your user discussion page.
 * Wikimedia Technology Blog — And its corresponding feed.
 * Calendar — All events.
 * wikitech-announce — Subscribe to announcements of new activities.

 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!

 Wikimedia Tech News

 Featured activity

 April engineering report

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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.

Language engineering
This team will be responsible for Internationalization 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.



Tools
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