Wikimedia Engineering/Report/2011/August

Major news in August include:

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

Recent events

 * Wikimania (August 2-7, Haifa, Israel) —

Upcoming events

 * New Orleans hackathon (, New Orleans) —


 * Check out the Software deployments page on the wikitech wiki for up-to-date information on the upcoming deployments to Wikimedia sites.

Job openings
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. The following positions opened in August:

Open Requests for Proposals:
 * Article Feedback Feature

The following positions are still open: Product Manager (Analytics), QA Lead, Operations Engineer (Networking), Director of Features Engineering, Systems Engineer (Data Analytics), Networking Contractor (Amsterdam), Software Developer (Rich Text Editing, Features), Software Developer (Front-end) and Software Developer (Back-end), Product Manager (Mobile), Software Developer (Mobile), Product Manager (New Editor Engagement)

Short news

 * Jeremy Postlethwaite, software engineer, Fundraising (announcement)
 * The team for the Internationalization and localization tools project was put together in August. It consists of Siebrand Mazeland (Product Manager, Localization), Niklas Laxström (Internationalization Engineer) and Gerard Meijssen (Internationalization / Localization Outreach Consultant).

Site infrastructure

 * Tampa Data Center —


 * Virginia Data Center —


 * Media Storage —


 * HTTPS & IPv6 —

Testing environment

 * Virtualization test cluster —

Backups and data archives

 * Data Dumps —

Editing tools

 * Visual editor —
 * Internationalization and localization tools —

Content Quality and Editorial Tools

 * Article feedback —

Participation and editor retention

 * WikiLove —
 * MoodBar Dashboard —
 * GlobalProfile —
 * QuickComments —

Multimedia Tools

 * UploadWizard —

MediaWiki infrastructure

 * ResourceLoader —

Wikimedia Labs

 * TimedMediaHandler —
 * MediaWiki.next —

Mobile

 * Mobile Research —


 * MobileFrontend —
 * http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/08/17/calling-mobile-testers-for-round-two/

Fundraising support

 * 2011 Fundraiser —
 * http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/08/18/fundraiser-engineering-update-sprint4/

Offline

 * Wikipedia version tools —
 * Kiwix UX initiative —
 * http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/08/16/come-beta-test-offline-wikipedia/

Platform Engineering

 * http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/08/17/what-is-platform-engineering/

MediaWiki Core

 * MediaWiki 1.18 —
 * Code review management —
 * Heterogeneous deployment —
 * Disk-backed object cache —
 * API maintenance —
 * Shell requests —
 * http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/08/24/filter-preventing-abusive-edits-all-wikis/
 * Continuous integration —

Wikimedia analytics

 * Wikimedia Report Card 2.0 —

Technical Liaison; Developer Relations

 * Bug management —
 * Summer of Code 2011 —
 * Engineering project documentation —
 * Volunteer coordination and outreach —