Wikimedia Engineering/Report/2012/March

 Engineering metrics in March:
 * 98 unique committers contributed code to MediaWiki.
 * About code commits were reviewed.
 * The total number of unreviewed commits went from 31 to.
 * About 34 shell requests were processed.
 * developers got commit access, among which volunteers.
 * Wikimedia Labs now hosts projects,  instances and  users.

Major news in March include:
 * The completion of the [//blog.wikimedia.org/2012/03/09/transfer-of-wikipedia-sites-from-godaddy-complete/ move of all our domain names from registrar GoDaddy];
 * The [//blog.wikimedia.org/2012/02/15/wikimedia-engineering-moving-from-subversion-to-git/ move from Subversion to git] as our primary code versioning system;
 * The kick-off of [//blog.wikimedia.org/2012/03/16/project-ideas-students-and-mentors-wanted-gsoc-2012/ Wikimedia's participation to Google Summer of Code 2012];
 * The kick-off of [//blog.wikimedia.org/2012/03/16/project-ideas-students-and-mentors-wanted-gsoc-2012/ Wikimedia's participation to Google Summer of Code 2012];

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Recent events

 * Chennai Hackathon March 2012 (17 March 2012, Chennai, India) —

Upcoming events

 * Berlin hackathon (1–3 June 2012, Berlin, Germany) —


 * Wikimania hackathon (10–11 July 2012, Washington, D.C., 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.


 * Lucene Search Operations Engineer (RFP)
 * Mobile Quality assurance (RFP)
 * Senior Software Frontend Engineer
 * Software Developer Backend
 * Software Developer Frontend
 * Software Developer Mobile
 * Software Security Engineer
 * Technical Product Analyst
 * Interaction Designer

Site infrastructure

 * Ashburn data center —


 * Tampa data center —


 * Media Storage —

Testing environment

 * Wikimedia Labs —

Backups and data archives

 * Data Dumps —

Other news

 * Performance engineer Asher Feldman published an [//blog.wikimedia.org/2012/03/15/measuring-site-performance-at-the-wikimedia-foundation/ article explaining how site performance is measured] at the Wikimedia Foundation.
 * Operations engineer Ryan Lane, who is leading the Wikimedia Labs project, was [//blog.wikimedia.org/2012/03/20/a-profile-in-free-collaboration/ featured on the Wikimedia Blog] this month.

Offline Projects

 * 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. In March, a particular focus of the engineering management team was also the annual goal and budgeting process.