Wikimedia Engineering/Report/2011/October

Major news in October include:

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

Recent events

 * New Orleans hackathon (14–16 October, New Orleans, USA) —


 * October 2011 Coding Challenge (20 October - 7 November, online) — Greg DeKoenigsberg continued to prepare for this contest, which officially started on October 20th, and will be running for one more week (see the rules). The contest offers three challenges: uploading media via a smartphone, surfacing changes in real time, and showing slideshows. The back-end, which provides a sign-up and submission process, was developed by Jeroen De Dauw and released as a MediaWiki extension. You can still participate in the challenge.

Upcoming events

 * India hackathon (18–20 November, Mumbai, India) —


 * Brighton hackathon (19–20 November, Brighton, England) —


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

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.


 * RFP/Mobile UI/UX Redesign

The following positions are open: Product Manager (Analytics), QA Lead, Director of Features Engineering, Systems Engineer (Data Analytics), Software Developer (Rich Text Editing, Features), Software Developer (Front-end) and Software Developer (Back-end), Product Manager (Mobile), Software Developer (Mobile), Product Manager.

The following requests for proposals are open: Networking Contractor Amsterdam, Internationalization and Localization Feature Development, Logging Analysis, Article Feedback Feature, Development and Operations Engineer, Systems & Operations Engineer, XML Dumps Help.

Short news

 * Phil Chang was hired as Product Manager for Mobile (announcement).
 * Antoine Musso, contractor working on Continuous integration (read announcement)
 * Amir Aharoni, software developer joining the Internationalization and localization tools team (announcement)
 * Gabriel Wicke joined http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2011-October/069983.html

Site infrastructure

 * Tampa Data Center —


 * Virginia Data Center —


 * Media Storage —


 * HTTPS —
 * http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/10/03/native-https-support-enabled-for-all-wikimedia-foundation-wikis/

Testing environment

 * Virtualization test cluster —

Backups and data archives

 * Data Dumps —

Editing tools

 * Visual editor —
 * Internationalization and localization tools —

Participation and editor retention

 * Article feedback —
 * LiquidThreads 3.0 —
 * Feedback Dashboard —

Multimedia Tools

 * UploadWizard —

MediaWiki infrastructure

 * ResourceLoader —

Wikimedia Labs

 * TimedMediaHandler —

Mobile

 * Mobile Research —


 * MobileFrontend —


 * Android App
 * http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/10/24/wikipedia-android-needs-developers/

Fundraising support

 * 2011 Fundraiser —

Offline

 * Kiwix UX initiative —

MediaWiki Core

 * MediaWiki 1.18 —
 * Code review management —
 * API maintenance —
 * Shell requests —
 * Continuous integration —
 * Wikitext scripting —
 * Git conversion —

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 —