Wikimedia Engineering/Report/2012/April

 Engineering metrics in April:
 * unique committers contributed code to MediaWiki.
 * The total number of unreviewed commits went from about 100 to.
 * About shell requests were processed.
 * developers got developer access to Git and Wikimedia Labs, among which are volunteers.
 * Wikimedia Labs now hosts projects,  instances and  users.

Major news in April include:

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

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.



New hires

 * Matthias Mullie (announcement)
 * Faidon Liambotis (announcement)
 * Chris Steipp (announcement)
 * Tauhida Parveen (announcement)

Site infrastructure

 * Ashburn data center —


 * Amsterdam data center —


 * Media Storage —

Testing environment

 * Wikimedia Labs —

Backups and data archives

 * Data Dumps —

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.