Wikimedia 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. The Platform Engineering group is managed by Rob Lanphier. It is part of the Wikimedia Foundation's engineering department.

See also a series of articles presenting the Platform engineering group:
 * What is “Platform Engineering”?
 * Data analytics at Wikimedia Foundation
 * Technical Liaison; Developer Relations (TL;DR)
 * The MediaWiki Core group

Team

 * Tim Starling (lead)
 * Chad Horohoe
 * Sam Reed
 * Aaron Schulz
 * Antoine Musso

Responsibilities

 * Manage the MediaWiki release cycle
 * Ensure that MediaWiki core is meeting the evolving needs of the website
 * Make quality MediaWiki releases available for others outside of the Wikimedia Foundation
 * Develop and document a clear set of APIs so that external developers can create applications that easily interface with MediaWiki

Main projects

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Continuous responsibilities

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Planned or backburner projects

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Recently completed projects

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Responsibilities

 * Ensure that all new code that is released meets quality standards
 * Triage, manage and resolve all bug reports

Team

 * Erik Zachte
 * Diederik van Liere
 * Andrew Otto
 * David Schoonover

Responsibilities

 * Implement and manage Web analytics tool to provide data for other foundation departments and the movement as a whole
 * Monitor and analyze key metrics on Wikimedia Foundation websites

Current activities

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Technical Liaisons and Developer Relations
a.k.a. "TL;DR"

Archived notes from weekly meetings (caution: messy)

Team

 * Guillaume Paumier
 * Mark Hershberger
 * Sumana Harihareswara (lead)
 * Chris McMahon

Responsibilities

 * Attract and support volunteer developers so that they can become an even more powerful force in driving improvement on the website
 * Manage volunteer-developed extensions and widgets
 * Provide communications support for all groups in the engineering department
 * Develop clear documentation for MediaWiki so that new staff, volunteer developers and external users have a smooth ramp-up process to becoming MediaWiki developers

Current activities

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Planned or backburner projects

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Recently completed projects

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