Wikimedia Engineering/Report/2012/July

 Engineering metrics in July:
 * unique committers contributed patchsets of code to MediaWiki.
 * The total number of unreviewed commits went from about 320 to about 370.
 * About shell requests were processed.
 * developers got developer access to Git and Wikimedia Labs.
 * Wikimedia Labs now hosts projects,  instances and  users.

Major news in July include:

Recent events
Pre-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.



Announcements

 * Peter Youngmeister, who was working as a contractor for the Operations team, was converted to full-time Technical Operations Engineer (announcement).
 * S Page joined the Editor engagement experiments team as Software Engineer (announcement).
 * S Page joined the Editor engagement experiments team as Software Engineer (announcement).

Site infrastructure


Data Centers

Object Store/Swift

Testing environment
Wikimedia Labs

Backups and data archives
Data Dumps
 * The YAS3 library for uploading to archive.org and to other s3-compatible sites as well, along with several command line clients, is now usable though still under heavy development. This library handles 100-Continue correctly; this means that for large file uploads, the upload is only attempted once the client has been redirected to the right host, a great time saver.  The library also supports uploads of large failes in multiple chunks automatically, rather than requiring the user to split the file into separate pieces.  That's a necessity for us since many of our dump files are quite large.   Browse the code via gitweb. Coming soon: Google additions, example scripts for XML dump uploading.

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.