Wikimedia Engineering/Report/2012/October

Engineering metrics in October:
 * unique committers contributed patchsets of code to MediaWiki.
 * The total number of unresolved commits went from about 440 to.
 * About shell requests were processed.
 * About developers got access to Git and Wikimedia Labs.
 * Wikimedia Labs now hosts projects,  users; to date  instances have been created.

Major news in October include:

''Note: As of last month, we're proposing a shorter and simpler version of this report for less technically savvy readers.

Upcoming events
Bangalore DevCamp (9–11 November 2012, Bangalore, India)

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

 * Željko Filipin joined the Platform engineering team as QA Engineer (announcement).
 * Andre Klapper joined the Platform engineering team as Bug Wrangler (announcement).
 * Michelle Grover joined the Mobile engineering team as a QA contractor (announcement).
 * Luke Welling joined the Features engineering team as Senior Features Engineer (announcement).
 * Luke Welling joined the Features engineering team as Senior Features Engineer (announcement).

Technical Operations
Site infrastructure

update on migrating primary data center from Tampa to Ashburn: postponed till after Fundraising activities are over, so January at the earliest

Wikimedia Labs

Data Dumps

Other news

Readers
Mobile website updated with new navigation bar, easy beta opt-in settings.

Native Wikipedia application available for Windows 8.

Offline
Kiwix

Release 0.9rc2 is almost finished. Highlight of this release is the presence of kiwix-serve for MS/Windows, directly available per click from the Kiwix UI. A first version of kiwix-plug was installed on 15 devices with the project Afripedia. With Wikimedia France, a Wikipedia in French on USB sticks was successfully sold (after one week: no bug dected and no stock anymore) for the first time in France. Work on current projects continues, a few new projects are on the launchpad for 2013 ; more in the next reports.

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.