Wikimedia Engineering/Report/2013/January

Engineering metrics in January:
 * unique committers contributed patchsets of code to MediaWiki.
 * The total number of unresolved commits went from about 648 to about.
 * About shell requests were processed.
 * Wikimedia Labs now hosts projects,  users; to date  instances have been created.
 * Detailed community metrics are also available.

Major news in January include:

''Note: We're also proposing a shorter, simpler and translatable version of this report that does not assume specialized technical knowledge.

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

 * Yuvaraj Pandian re-joined the Mobile engineering team as Software developer (announcement).
 * Munagala Ramanath (Ram) joined the MediaWiki core team of the Platform engineering group as Senior Software Engineer (announcement).
 * Runa Bhattacharjee joined the Language Engineering team as Outreach and QA coordinator (announcement).

Technical Operations
Production Site Switchover



Site infrastructure

Fundraising

Data Dumps

Wikimedia Labs

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 engineering roadmap, listing ongoing and future Wikimedia engineering efforts.