Wikimedia Engineering/Report/2012/January

Major news in January include:

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

Recent events

 * San Francisco hackathon (21–22 January 2012, San Francisco, California, USA) —

Upcoming events

 * Pune hackathon (10–12 February 2012, Pune, India) —


 * GLAMcamp DC (10–12 February 2012, Washington, D.C., USA) —

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.


 * Developers and engineers:
 * Interaction Designer
 * Systems Engineer (Data Analytics)
 * Software Developer (Back-end, Data Analytics)
 * Software Developer (Rich Text Editing, Features)
 * Software Developer (Front-end)
 * QA Lead
 * Software Developer (Mobile)
 * Software Security Engineer


 * Management & Product:
 * Director of Features Engineering


 * Requests for proposals:
 * Executive Dashboard - Analytics — Help us improve and centralize the dashboard summarizing the most important data about the Wikimedia movement to understand overall community health.
 * XML Dumps — Help us improve the infrastructure used to build XML dumps of Wikipedia content, for backups and reuse by third parties.
 * Mobile UX — Help us redesign our mobile platform and apps as more and more visitors access Wikipedia and its sister sites via mobile devices.

Short news

 * Andrew Otto joined the Platform engineering team as Software Developer for Analytics ([//lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-January/057430.html announcement]).
 * Fabrice Florin joined the Strategic Product team as Product Manager for New Editor Engagement (announcement).
 * Andre Engels joined the Mobile team as data analyst contractor (announcement).

Site infrastructure

 * Data Centers —


 * Media Storage —


 * HTTPS —

Testing environment

 * Wikimedia Labs —

Backups and data archives

 * Data Dumps —

Editing tools

 * Visual editor —
 * Internationalization and localization tools —

Participation and editor retention

 * Article feedback —
 * Feedback Dashboard —

Multimedia Tools

 * UploadWizard —
 * TimedMediaHandler —

MediaWiki infrastructure

 * ResourceLoader —

Feature support

 * Wikipedia Education Program —

Mobile

 * Mobile Research —


 * MobileFrontend —


 * Android Wikipedia App —


 * WikipediaZero —


 * GPS Storage/Retrieval —


 * Featured Article RSS —

Fundraising support

 * 2011 Fundraiser —

Offline

 * Kiwix UX initiative —

MediaWiki Core

 * MediaWiki 1.19 —
 * Continuous integration —
 * Git conversion —
 * VipsScaler —
 * SwiftMedia —
 * HipHop deployment —

Wikimedia analytics

 * Wikimedia Report Card 2.0 —

Technical Liaison; Developer Relations

 * Bug management —
 * Summer of Code 2011 —
 * Engineering project documentation —
 * Volunteer coordination and outreach —
 * MediaWiki architecture document —
 * Wikimedia blog maintenance —

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.