Wikimedia Engineering/Report/2014/August

Major news in August include: ''Note: We're also providing a shorter version of this report.
 * the Wikimania 2014 conference in London, and the associated hackathon;
 * a statement on Wikipedia Zero and net neutrality;
 * progress on the new content translation tool and its passing the milestone of 100 translated articles.

Engineering metrics in August:
 * 160 unique committers contributed patchsets of code to MediaWiki.
 * The total number of unresolved commits went from around 1640 to about 1695.
 * About 22 shell requests were processed.

Upcoming events
There are many opportunities for you to get involved and contribute to MediaWiki and technical activities to improve Wikimedia sites, both for coders and contributors with other talents.

For a more complete and up-to-date list, check out the Project:Calendar.

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.

* VP of Engineering
 * Software Engineer - Front-end (VisualEditor)
 * Software Engineer - Services (Features)
 * Software Engineer - Front-end - Mobile
 * Software Engineer - Maps & Geo - Mobile
 * Software Engineer - Mobile - iOS
 * QA Tester
 * Full Stack Developer - Analytics
 * Lean/Agile Coach - Team Practices Group
 * Product Manager
 * Product Manager - Language Engineering
 * Operations Security Engineer
 * Technical Project Manager
 * UX Senior Designer
 * UX Senior Design Researcher
 * UX User Research Recruiter
 * Project Coordinator - Engineering
 * Mobile Partnerships Regional Manager

Technical Operations
Dallas data center

San Francisco data center

Labs metrics in August:
 * Number of projects:
 * Number of instances:
 * Amount of RAM in use (in MBs):
 * Amount of allocated storage (in GBs):
 * Number of virtual CPUs in use:
 * Number of users:

 Wikimedia Labs

Mobile
Wikipedia Zero (partnerships)



Kiwix
The Kiwix project is funded and executed by Wikimedia CH.



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



Future

 * The engineering management team continues to update the Deployments page weekly, providing up-to-date information on the upcoming deployments to Wikimedia sites, as well as the annual goals, listing ongoing and future Wikimedia engineering efforts.