Wikimedia Engineering/Report/2012/February

 Engineering metrics in January:
 * unique committers contributed code to MediaWiki.
 * About code commits were reviewed.
 * The total number of unreviewed commits went from 44 to.
 * About shell requests were processed.
 * developers got commit access, among which volunteers.
 * Wikimedia Labs now hosts projects,  instances and  users.

Major news in January include:

Hover your mouse over the green question marks to see the description of a particular project.

Recent events

 * Pune hackathon (10–12 February 2012, Pune, India) —


 * GLAMcamp DC (10–12 February 2012, Washington, D.C., USA) —

Job openings
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.


 * Developers and engineers:
 * Senior Software Engineer Front-end
 * Interaction Designer
 * Software Developer (Back-end, Data Analytics)
 * Software Developer (Rich Text Editing, Features)
 * Software Developer (Front-end)
 * QA Lead
 * Software Developer (Mobile)
 * Software Security Engineer
 * Operations Engineer (Labs)


 * Management & Product:
 * Director of Features Engineering
 * Technical Product Analyst


 * Requests for proposals:
 * Mobile UX — Help us redesign our mobile platform and apps as more and more visitors access Wikipedia and its sister sites via mobile devices.
 * Mobile QA — Help us set up testing and automation processes for all Wikimedia Mobile projects.

Short news

 * David Schoonover joined the Platform engineering team as Systems Engineer for Data Analytics (announcement).
 * Jon Robson joined the Mobile engineering team as Software Developer for Mobile (announcement).
 * Terry Chay joined the Wikimedia Foundation as Director of Features Engineering (announcement).
 * Terry Chay joined the Wikimedia Foundation as Director of Features Engineering (announcement).

Site infrastructure

 * Data Centers —


 * Media Storage —


 * HTTPS —

Testing environment

 * Wikimedia Labs —

Backups and data archives

 * Data Dumps —

Other news

 * wikitech:Site issue February 2012
 * wikitech:Site issue February 2012

Mobile

 * Android Wikipedia App —


 * WikipediaZero —


 * Wikipedia over SMS/USSD —


 * GPS Storage/Retrieval —


 * FeaturedFeeds —


 * Wiktionary app --

Offline

 * Kiwix UX initiative —

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.