Wikimedia Engineering/Report/2012/August

 Engineering metrics in July:
 * The total number of unreviewed commits went from ~360 to ~.
 * About shell requests were processed.
 * About developers got access to Git and Wikimedia Labs.
 * Wikimedia Labs now hosts projects,  instances and  users.

Major news in July include:

Recent events
Wikipedia Engineering Meetup (15 August 2012, San Francisco, USA)

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

 * Srikanth Lakshmanan joined the Internationalization and localization team as outreach coordinator / QA engineer, contractor (announcement).
 * Srikanth Lakshmanan joined the Internationalization and localization team as outreach coordinator / QA engineer, contractor (announcement).

Operations
Site infrastructure

Object Store/Swift

Wikimedia Labs

Data Dumps

Other news
 * Site issue Aug 6 2012

Offline
Kiwix

We mostly have worked on the 0.9 RC2 (see CHANGELOG) which should be released soon after the portage of kiwix-serve to MS/Windows. Kiwix UI localisation was improved, thanks to the Translatewiki Rally, four new languages are supported. For the ZIM autobuild project, we have migrated the server to a datacenter in Zurich, Switzerland and coding work is ongoing. Otherwise, pretty much energy is involved in 2013 projects planning, we need volunteers and ideas... Join us!.

Wikidata

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

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.